Tag Archives: Nate

Recently, it seems that people attending the Lego Club have been very interested in building towers as high as they possibly can. Usually, the builder’s height and choice of bricks conspire against the builder to determine the tower’s height. What if height wasn’t a factor? How tall could a Lego tower get before the bottom brick get’s squished? Luckily, Open University‘s engineering department has answered
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I came across what might be the last interview that Maurice Sendak gave before he died. It’s pretty wonderful. It gives the reader a better idea of who he was, how he got to be that way, and what he thought about love, life, and being an artist. That being said, he also doesn’t hold back, and you DEFINITELY want to give it a
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While preparing for my story times this month, I took particular notice of the illustrations in Laura Numeroff’s If You Give a Pig a Party. It caught my attention because it features all of the characters from her incredibly popular, alliteratively titled, and circular reading books in the If You Give a . . . series. There are also a few more animals in there
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LEGO® DUPLO® has teamed up with the Association for Library Services To Children (ALSC) to celebrate and support local libraries!
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Bad Island by Doug TenNapel is a great graphic novel for middle to upper elementary school readers. There’s action, adventure, AND . . . family vacation!
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You’re all dying to know which school is leading after three weeks, right? Click through to find out how your school is doing in the Summer Reading Club Challenge!
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Mo Willems speaks to the id in all of us as Pigeon asks in the title of his latest book, The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?
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Choose Your Own Adventure books have been a reading staple since they were first published in 1976, and I think almost everyone can remember reading at least one during their childhood.
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