Category Archives: Guest Bloggers

Guest Blogger: Dori Hillestad Butler

Posted on May 6, 2011 by

by Edgar Award Winning Author Dori Hillestad Butler Dori Hillestad Butler won the 2011 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery for The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy. She accepted the award at a gala banquet last week … Continue reading →

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Guest Blog: Author Susan Grigsby

Posted on April 8, 2011 by

by Susan Grigsby Susan Grigsby, author of In the Garden with Dr. Carver, spent the weekend at the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis. She had a wonderful (and windy) experience sharing her enthusiasm for George Washington Carver with the … Continue reading →

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Guest Blogger: Suzanne Slade

Posted on March 7, 2011 by

As mentioned on Friday, Albert Whitman author Suzanne Slade took Read Across America Day quite literally. Here are her experiences with 13 Skype visits in one day: The Day I Read Across America (tales from the virtual author visit front) … Continue reading →

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Teacher Book Club: Episode 2

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

As promised, we are following up last week’s Teacher Book Club: Episode 1 with observations from our two wonderful teachers Lori Howard and Linda Null. We’re very excited that both classrooms were so engaged with Smelly Bill by Daniel Postgate. … Continue reading →

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From the Archives: The Archivist speaks!

Posted on December 3, 2010 by

By Kathleen Spale When most people think of summer vacation, they think of time spent on beaches in the sun with sand and water spreading endlessly around them.  So when I heard about an opportunity to sit in a small, … Continue reading →

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Teacher Book Club: Episode 1

Posted on December 2, 2010 by

When we started this blog, one of our first ideas was a teacher book club. We’d ask teachers in the same grade from around the country – each in a different size and type of community — to use the same book in … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: How Gabi Greenberg Came To Be

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

by Michelle Edwards My three daughters, Meera, Flory, and Lelia, are close in age. Often during their early years, we snuggled together on our old beige corduroy couch and worked our way through piles of picture books. Before they went … Continue reading →

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Friday topic: Dori Hillestad Butler on Bullying

Posted on October 7, 2010 by

By Dori Hillestad Butler A few years ago, I wrote The Truth About Truman School, a novel that deals with cyberbullying. In the book, a girl named Lilly Clarke is harassed online—on a website the whole school reads, an anonymous classmate … Continue reading →

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