Ms. Nancy’s Library Blog

One of my favorite mail carriers in the neighborhood, a retired military man, is involved with the local chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization. They hold an annual writing contest and he asked me to pass this information along to the students.
The contest is open to 6th, 7th & 8th grade students. Grand [...]

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Dear students and teachers,
Let’s not do the full Oregon Battle of the Books this year, with buzzers and bells and a full-on competition. I’d like to keep it simple. I was thinking… how about for those students (and staff) who are interested, we read as many of the books from the lists as we can?
I [...]

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“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity…” — A. Edward Newton
What are we reading at my house? “Twilight” (Stephenie Meyer wrote the story behind Twilight, and you will also find a draft of “Midnight Sun,” the fifth book in the series), and the “Magic [...]

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Are you interested in more from the author of “Coraline”? Neil Gaiman recently won the 2009 John Newbery Medal for his most recent book, “The Graveyard Book” (illustrated by Dave McKean and published by HarperCollins Children’s Books). The winner of the 2009 Caldecott Award is “The House in the Night,” illustrated by Beth Krommes, written [...]

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I had the privilege and honor of announcing the winners of the winter writing contest on Friday. They are too shy and do not want their entries reprinted here — or their names mentioned. I mentioned the possibility of podcasting them reading their entries — or even interviewing their family members and posting those as [...]

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