About This Blog
Purpose
I originally started this blog to encourage people—both young people and adults—to read books and to talk about books. However, I also realized that this as good a place to discuss issues students and teachers face in the English/Language Arts classroom — apart from the books themselves. Which books do we want to read, have …
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Age Recommendations
I have issues with age recommendations for books. As a reader, some of favorite books are the ones I read as a kid, but if I went strictly by the age listed on the cover of the book, I could never reread something like Winnie-the-Pooh. Unfortunately, rereading a favorite book is one the benefits of …
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Announcements
9 April 2010 I’m finally finished (I think) making all the theme changes to this blog. I especially wanted to keep it green by making sure it has a print style, so that if you print a post, only the post content is printed, so that you don’t waste paper printing the sidebar. At the …
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MLA Style
I’m a stickler for MLA documentation, because it provides a uniform way to present research and information. Across this blog and on my main web page, I model MLA format whenever possible. You can read more about MLA documentation at the Purdue OWL. However, when it comes to quoting from a text, I deviate from …
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Boys Read
“Boys Read” is a new project on this blog. Both personal experience and research suggest that boys are far less likely than girls to ask teachers, librarians, or other adults for book recommendations. They will ask other boys, or will at least notice what other boys are reading, and take their cues from that. When …
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Forthcoming Reviews
I originally did this as a sticky post called “Working Through the Backlog,” but after it was sticky for about six months, I realized that I would always have a backlog. But I didn’t want to get rid of it, because it serves as a sort of “to-do” list for me. So I decided to …
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