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Styling Librarian Happy Book Birthday Brush of the Gods #TreatTuesday

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Many thanks to Debbie Alvarez for her wonderful Book Birthday wishes!!! I have NO time to blog about it myself as I’m in the thick of finishing the next Alvin book under threat of imminent death! What a wonderful gift this is to reblog 🙂 THANK YOU, Debbie!!! And thanks again to all the amazing readers at Bradbury School for listening 🙂 !!! XXOOXXO

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TreatTuesday

Thanks to Twitter Friends for creating a delicious meme- Treat Tuesday. 

Special thanks to Niki Barnes at Daydream Reader 

and  Shannon Houghton at Ms. Houghton’s Class.

I’ll go with a book and a treat.

Happy BOOK Birthday to Brush of the Gods by Lenore Look, illustrated by Meilo So! So excited to see this book out in the world now… My students and I received a copy of the book as a gift and we absolutely love it! We enjoyed watching Lenore Look read it aloud during our Skype author visit and now to have an autographed copy of our very own, well that just takes the cake! Thank YOU Lenore Look!!

Here’s my thoughts on the book: I’ve watched Brush of the Gods collect one lovely book review after another. See below for other reviews!

There are many reasons I think that Brush of the Gods…

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[Monday Reading] Chinese Wedding, Penguin Pottery, and Rabbit’s Judgment – Celebrating Yumi Heo’s Artwork

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Debbie Alvarez, a k a The Styling Librarian, forwarded this post to me. It features two of my picture books with Yumi Heo, and a third book by her. Go, Yumi! And many thanks to Jen and Kellee for the mention!

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It’s Monday, What are You Reading is a meme hosted by Jen and Kellee from Teach Mentor Texts (and brainchild of Sheila at BookJourney). Two of our blogging friends, Linda from Teacher Dance and Tara from A Teaching Life have inspired us to join this vibrant meme.

Last Week’s Review and Miscellany Posts

Here are a few of the reviews we have done last week. We are also inviting everyone to join our Award-Winning-Books Reading Challenge. We hosted the AWB Challenge last year and we are thrilled to be able to host it again. Do sign up if you are looking for exciting reading challenges with monthly book prizes. Click on the titles/images below to be taken to our blog posts.

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[Photo Journal/A-Z Photo Story Challenge] W is for Wall of Berlin

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[AFCC 2013] Children, Speak Up Panel

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Post-Birthday Special: Haruki Murakami’s Birthday Girl

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[AFCC 2013] Launch of Project…

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Barley Sheaf School

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FLEMINGTON, NJ — There’s a Chinese superstition that says if it rains on your wedding day it’s a sign of a prosperous life ahead. I chuckled at that thought two weeks ago while driving through a torrential rain to a school visit more than 50 miles from my home. I wondered what the Chinese would say about a blinding downpour on Author’s Day? Surely it was a sign of imminent death on the clogged New Jersey roadways where more than 600 people die in the nearly 300,000 crashes that occur every year!

TGIMI. Thank God I Made It, or I would have missed this handsome librarian waiting for me under his umbrella: IMG_6292 Continue reading →

Styling Librarian #TreatTuesday

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Many thanks to Debbie Alvarez, a k a The Styling Librarian, a k a the librarian at Bradbury School, Hong Kong, for blogging about my newest Alvin book! And with a Twix bar! Yummy!

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TreatTuesday

Thanks to Twitter Friends for creating a delicious meme.

Especially thanks to Niki Barnes at Daydream Reader 

and  Shannon Houghton at Ms. Houghton’s Class.

Treat Tuesday.

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Alvin Ho Allergic to Babies, Burglars, and other Bumps in the Night
by Lenore Look, illustrated by LeUyen Pham

I’m quite excited about finally reading Lenore Look’s new book!

My review: Alvin Ho Allergic to Babies, Burglars, and Other Bumps in the Night by Lenore Look, illustrated by LeUyen Pham – 1st grade and up! How fantastic was this Alvin Ho? I really do believe Lenore Look outdoes herself with every new Alvin Ho book she writes! I’ve been obsessed with Rube Goldberg for quite a while… what do you know? Lenore incorporated his creations into her story, in the most fitting way! Sympathetic pregnancy? Why yes, Alvin suddenly thinks he’s pregnant as well as his mom… Accidentally losing your entire savings and…

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