It's that time again. For the moment, anyway, our curated starred review spreadsheet is up to date, y'all. As a reminder, Martha Hickson and I curate and collate the starred reviews from six trade journals:  Booklist   Horn Book Kirkus School Library Journal Publishers Weekly   The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books We realize, of course, that other sites/blogs award stars, too... but these are the journals we've chosen to focus on. You May Have Noticed... I can't keep up, y'all!...

A few weeks ago, my friend William sent me photos of a rotating passive programming display he’s been running in his high school library. Each week, he posts a new Shakespearean-style sonnet on a bulletin board and challenges students and teachers to guess which popular song inspired it. Unsurprisingly, the display has become something of a sensation, with prizes ranging from bragging rights to handcrafted artworks made from discarded books. Here are a few examples: Has Thou the Wit to Devine...

Back in May, I shared the reading tracker I created for my students in the Young Adult Literature class I teach for Rutgers. That post also included the full summer reading list. As an aside, I very rarely check engagement data for this site, but when I looked back at the original post to help me write this one, I spotted that it continues to get a lot of traffic. That tells me many of y’all are still thinking about ways to help readers notice patterns in what they read. As I wrote then, the...