YA? Why Not? | A Teen Librarian Writes About Teen Reads Good Reading Magazine :: Home Teenreads | The Bottom Shelf | Great books for little people SCIS No. 1641811 Australian Storytelling Guild (NSW) Just So Stories | Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe SCIS No. 1664473 Creative iPad Apps for Kids, Word Mover and Trading Cards Creative iPad Apps for Kids, Word Mover and Trading Cards by Susan Stephenson, www.thebookchook.com I am really impressed with the ReadWriteThink iPad apps. For a start, they're excellent. Next, they're FREE. And finally, they're educational. Word Mover Word Mover allows children and teens to create “found poetry” by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text. As soon as I read about it, I downloaded Word Mover to my iPad. 30 seconds later I was creating my first poem. Word Mover is more versatile than just creating poetry, wonderful though that idea is! Check out the video below to see Word Mover in action. Trading Cards I told you about the Trading Card app in Activities for Children's Book Week 2013. Invigorate students' writing with an interactive tool that allows them to demonstrate their comprehension using a mobile app.
The Best Children’s Books of 2016 In his meditation on the three ways of writing for children and the key to authenticity in all writing, C.S. Lewis admonished against treating children, in literature or life, as “a strange species whose habits you have ‘made up’ like an anthropologist or a commercial traveller.” J.R.R. Tolkien expressed the same sentiment in his timeless insistence on why there is no such thing as writing “for children.” After the year’s greatest science books, here are the picture-books I found most imaginative, intelligent, and warmhearted this year — books that speak, even sing, to hearts of all ages and embody E.B. “Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead,” John Updike wrote, “so why … be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?” Yet mortality continues to petrify us — our own, and perhaps even more so that of our loved ones. This warmly wistful story begins outside the “small snug house” where four children live with their beloved grandmother.
ReadPlus Fiction, Children's books, eBooks, Non-fiction books, textbooks and more at Waterstones Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell has been announced as the winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. The Waterstones Children's Book Prize, now in its tenth year, celebrated on Thursday 3rd April at a ceremony at Waterstones flagship Piccadilly store, the largest bookshop in Europe. The prize champions new and emerging talent in children's writing and is unique in that it is solely voted for by booksellers. "The 2014 category winners are each of an outstanding quality which our booksellers have delighted in unearthing and passionately championing. As in past years, the Prize gives us the chance to shine a spotlight on these books ensuring that more readers discover wonderful new authors and illustrators, and we are immensely proud of the successes achieved by ten years of winners." James Daunt, Managing Director for Waterstones The lucky winners can be seen below or you can read more on the Waterstones blog. Best Fiction for 5-12s and overall winner Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell