Carol's Corner

Dinosaurs have been done, and done, and done, but here's a new book you have to check out. DINOSAURS is narrated by a family of chickens...

OK, I am going to subject myself to humiliation one more time. I am the book auntie. You know, the person who always makes sure that every c...

I've been struck, as I've read the CYBILS nonfiction nominees, by stories of perseverance. People's lives, for whatever reason, ...

SERVICE DOG HEROES- Linda Bozzos Enslow Publishers, 2010 Review copy provided by publisher SERVICE DOG HEROES is one of six books in the AMA...

Benjamin C. Holmes is a slave, apprenticed to a tailor in Charleston, South Carolina, just before the Civil War. Ben, unlike most slaves, kn...

I am a Christian. A Jesus-loving, Bible reading, hard-praying Christian. I don't talk about it a lot on my blog, well, because this blog...

I teach in an urban setting. With kids who don't have a lot of access to books. And kids who don't see the adults around them readin...