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GEARPICKS Holiday Book Gifting 2020 Part 2 – Book Gifting for Tweens

Last week, I posted PART 1 of my Holiday Book Gifting ideas, focusing on books for your younger readers. You can read the post HERE. This week, I am excited…

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December 15, 2020

1 - Infer / 1 - New Books / 1 - Top 10 Tuesday / 2017 releases / Art / wordless / Writing Strategies

Top Ten Tuesday – Top 10 Books about Lines! (Who knew there were so many?)

What is a line? Think about it for a moment. It starts and it stops... or does it? A line, on one hand, is a simple mark or stroke…

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August 1, 2017

1 - Top 10 Tuesday / Art

Top Ten Tuesday: Top 10 Picture Books to Inspire Winter Art!

Happy New Year! We are heading back to school SO early this year... and I believe it is going to be a long, cold, and snowy month ahead! If you…

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January 3, 2017

1 - New Books / 1 - Poetry / 1 - Science / 1 - Social Studies / 1 - Top 10 Tuesday / Art

Top Ten Tuesday! Top 10 Nonfiction Poetry Collections

In honour of National Poetry Month, I have decided to do a TOP 10 post that features poetry, in particular, nonfiction poetry! Poetry can bring science to life for…

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April 12, 2016

1 - Connect / 1 - New Books / 1 - Question / 1- It's Monday, What Are You Reading? / 1- Visualize / 2015 releases / Art / Picture Book

IMWAYR – A Whale, A Bear, a Finch – and a whole lot of QUESTIONS!

It's Monday and I'm happy to be participating in a weekly event with a community of bloggers who post reviews of books that they have read the previous week. Check out more…

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October 19, 2015

1 - New Books / 1 - Science / Art / NFPB Challenge 2014

Nonfiction Picture Book Wednesday

I'm excited to be joining Alyson Beecher from Kid Lit Frenzy in this year's Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge 2014 I'm hoping to discover many new nonfiction books that I can…

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February 11, 2014