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Read-Aloud Roundup The Blog Log www.hooverlibrary.org/blog Jaqueline Woodson has been publishing conversation-starting books since 1990. In 2014, her memoir Brown Girl Dreaming catapulted her to major literary stardom. In 2015, she was named the Young People’s Poet Laureate and, in 2018, she continues to be a newsmaker. In January, Woodson was named the sixth National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. As ambassador, she’s been traveling around the country, speaking to kids in schools, libraries, juvenile detention centers and other underserved areas —especially in the rural South. She will continue to serve in this capacity through 2019. In February, Woodson won the 2018 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children. In June, the prestigious Wilder Award was renamed the Childen’s Literature Legacy Award. The reasoning behind the name change — racial insensitivity in Wilder’s work — made national news both in the library/literary world and the world at large. Woodson physically received her award under the new name. Jacqueline Woodson: Newsmaker Review the New Stegothesaurus by Bridget Heos Stegothesaurus’s love of language has always put him at odds with his stegosaurus brothers. So when he makes a friend — an allothesaurus — who is just as verbose, he is happy, thrilled, and ecstatic! But Stegothesaurus soon learns that the allothesaurus has very different ideas about what constitutes a good meal, and he'll discover there’s one thing that he loves more than words: his family. The author is offering free Skype visits during SKYPE-TOBER! Drew Daywalt Does It Again! The Final Lap Kate DiCamillo Writes a Sequel Lafayette!: A Revolutionary War Tale Max Einstein Narrative Writing Ogre Enchanted This Is Your Brain on Comics Your de la Peña – Robinson Collaboration Wish Is Granted Bob by Wendy Mass & Rebecca Stead It’s been five years since Livy has visited her grandmother in Australia. Now that she’s back, Livy has the feeling she’s forgotten something really, really important about Gran’s house. It turns out she’s right. A House That Once Was by Julie Fogliano A boy and a girl who explore an abandoned house and imagine who might have lived there. In August, Woodson published a new picture book and a new middle grade novel. The Day You Begin, illustrated by two- time Pura Belpré Illustrator Award winner Rafael López, reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. And that sometimes, when we reach out and begin to share our stories, others will be happy to meet us halfway. Harbor Me celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories. It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat — by themselves, with no adults to listen in. There they discover it's safe to talk about what's bothering them — everything from Esteban's father's deportation and Haley's father's incarceration to Amari's fears of racial profiling and Ashton's adjustment to his changing family fortunes. In September, Woodson was one of fifty of the foremost diverse children’s authors and illustrators to share her answer to the question, “In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children?” The resulting book is called We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices. Untangle the Web askabiologist.asu.edu/ Explore the fascinating world of biology through puzzles, quizzes, and games! There are archived podcasts on a variety of biology topics plus a real biologist will also answer YOUR biology questions. To help educators in their quest for fun and engaging content, they created a Teacher’s Toolbox. APProved Signed Stories Children’s stories performed in American Sign Language! New books every month plus two interactive language games with every book. Includes useful tips for parents and teachers. FREE / iPhone & iPad Volume 6, Issue 3 October 2018
