Carol's Corner

A look at the cover of this book pretty much captures it's essence. 1. SELF-PORTRAIT is a biography of artist Marc Chagall. 3. SELF-PORT...

I'm a first round judge for the CYBILS poetry category. For the past six weeks, I've been reading and rereading about thirty poetry ...

This fall, I've talked a lot about how poetry can make you see the world in entirely different ways. That definitely happened for me yes...

As anyone who knows me at all already knows, I am a lover of books. And I am a lover of poetry. And I am a teacher. What then, could be bet...

One more day and then winter break. Like many schools, we no longer have holiday parties. Today we are having a read-a-thon. I'm bringin...

Don Graves, my all-time favorite most important teacher ever, always said that poets and scientists have a lot in common, because both force...

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a sucker for a dog book. I have a couple I think kids are going to love in my CYBILS stack. In THE H...

I read poetry to my fourth graders on an almost daily basis. So far this year, they have heard/read poets like Douglas Florian, J. Patrick L...

I have been a CYBILS judge for the past four years. In 2008, I judged YA nonfiction, then moved to Elementary Nonfiction for 2009 and 2010. ...

It's that time of year again! Time to nominate the best books published since October 2010 for a CYBILS AWARD. There are lots of differe...