The Miss Rumphius Effect

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Thematic Book Lists

The links below are to thematic book lists on a variety of topics. Each list contains brief annotations and links to the books recommended.

Books for Math
  • 100th Day of School
  • Big and Little (Books about relative size)
  • Calendar (Days, Months, Years)
  • Math Poetry
  • Measurement
  • Shapes
  • Time

Books for Science
  • Animal Adaptations
  • Animal Dads
  • Animal Habitats
  • Animal Homes
  • Apples and Pumpkins
  • Birds (Poetry Books)
  • Camouflage
  • Dinosaurs
  • Early Life (Eggs, Life Cycles)
  • Earthquakes
  • Electricity
  • Five Senses
  • Food Chains and Food Webs
  • Frogs (and Toads)
  • Hibernation
  • Migration
  • Outdoor Education
  • Poop and Other Related Topics
  • Science Poetry
  • Seasons - Fall
  • Seeds and Growing Things
  • Snow and Snowflakes
  • Trees

Books for Social Studies
  • 50 States
  • African American Scientists and Inventors
  • Change Over Time
  • China
  • Constitution Day
  • Immigration (Contemporary)
  • Map Skills
  • School Around the Globe

Other Lists
  • Aesop's Fables
  • Monster Poetry
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Blogs I Read

Below you will find links to some of the many blogs I enjoy reading. They are broken down into categories and include only the TEN MOST RECENT POSTS. You will find blogs written by teachers, librarians, homeschoolers, parents, authors, illustrators and many other folks who share a love for children's literature. Enjoy!

Nonfiction

  • Consider the Source
    Meet the Makers: Can a DIY movement revolutionize how we learn?
    1 hour ago
  • I.N.K.
    On How Research Can Make You Throw-Up
    8 hours ago
  • The Nonfiction Detectives
    Summer Reading Suggestions
    2 days ago

Poetry

  • David L. Harrison's Blog
    Back in business
    1 hour ago
  • Playing by the book
    Refugee week: 75+ recent children’s books about the refugee experience
    12 hours ago
  • Author Amok
    My Annual Guilt Trip
    1 day ago
  • Random Noodling
    Haiku Sticky #206
    1 day ago
  • The Poem Farm
    Old Memory and a Poetry Pole
    2 days ago
  • CRACKLES OF SPEECH
    POEM: Cat in the Yard
    4 days ago
  • Florian Cafe
    Travels
    5 days ago
  • Drift Record / Julie Larios
    Poetry Friday: What Gets Lost (or Found) in Translation
    5 days ago
  • GottaBook
    Congratulations, Kenn Nesbitt!
    1 week ago
  • Poetry for Children
    New Children's Poet Laureate named
    1 week ago
  • Poetry at Play
    Kenn Nesbitt is named U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate
    1 week ago
  • How a Poem Happens
    Alex Dimitrov
    2 weeks ago
  • my juicy little universe
    out of time
    3 weeks ago
  • Wild Rose Reader
    PUDDLE MUDDLE: An Original Poem
    1 month ago
  • Write Time
    2 months ago
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The Poetry Princesses

  • Writing and Ruminating
    Really, the userpic says it all
    2 days ago
  • Tanita Davis' blog
    {change, potential, and the man with the flag}
    4 days ago
  • laurasalas: writing the world for kids
    [poetry friday] “Woolly Rider” (by Nancy Bo Flood) & Giveaway!
    5 days ago
  • a wrung sponge
    Review and Giveaway: Ferdinand Fox’s First Summer
    5 weeks ago
  • Liz In Ink
    Haiku 19 -- April 19, 2013
    1 month ago
  • Read Write Believe
    "Clear Thinking about Mixed Feelings": A Guest Post at Teachers Write
    1 year ago

Reading Inclusively

  • I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell do I read?
    Meeting You: Manga Stories of Gay Passion
    8 hours ago
  • PaperTigers Blog
    Why Hasn’t the Number of Multicultural Books Increased In Eighteen Years?
    22 hours ago
  • Brown Bookshelf
    Celebrating Summer
    2 days ago
  • Guys Lit Wire
    The Love Song of Jonny Valentine
    2 days ago
  • WOW Currents
    Tackling the Socio-political: Exploring social structures inside and out
    2 days ago
  • readergirlz
    Cover Stories: Rogue by Lyn Miller-Lachmann
    4 days ago
  • American Indians in Children's Literature
    Susan Cooper on GHOST HAWK: "The only major liberty I've taken is..."
    5 days ago
  • mitali's fire escape
    Top Ten "Little" Things To Miss In Boston
    3 weeks ago
  • The Elephant Rag
    Outstanding International Books 2013 on Google Maps
    5 weeks ago
  • Black Threads in Kid's LIt
    Coretta Scott King Awards - Statistics 1970 - 2012
    5 months ago
  • TheHappyNappyBookseller
    Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance
    9 months ago
  • Color Online
    Books Can Not Be Cancelled (Kyra Davis Keeps em Coming)
    1 year ago
  • "Brown Like Me" Book Reviews
    The Little Red Hen
    1 year ago
  • AAKidsBookTalks
    New Step at Longfellow High
    1 year ago
  • The Sydney Taylor Book Award
    Sydney Taylor Book Award Committee Call for Submissions
    3 years ago
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For and From the Classroom

  • educating alice
    Lee & Low Examines The Diversity Gap in Children’s Books
    6 hours ago
  • Year of Reading
    Compare and Contrast: American History Edition
    9 hours ago
  • Anastasia Suen's Blog
    Bear Says “Thank You”
    12 hours ago
  • Literate Lives
    Worrying is Part of the Job -- Slice of Life Tuesday
    1 day ago
  • Picture This! Teaching with Picture Books
    Satchel Paige by Lesa Cline-Ransome
    2 days ago
  • Carol's Corner
    Snook Alone-- Marilyn Nelson
    3 days ago
  • The Classroom Bookshelf
    Summer Reading 2013
    1 week ago
  • Elementary, My Dear, or Far From It
    Reputations
    1 week ago
  • My World-Mi Mundo
    2012-2013 What happened to you? where art thou?
    3 weeks ago
  • Teach with Picture Books
    We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
    1 month ago
  • Write Now In Room 204...
    Imagination + Inspiration = Impact
    1 month ago
  • Katie's Literature Lounge
    Last Minute Easter Picks for Your Little Peeps!
    2 months ago
  • PlanetEsme Plan
    2 months ago
  • My Breakfast Platter
    Loving Jack
    3 months ago
  • Classroom Book of the Week
    INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR CAROLYN COMAN AND ILLUSTRATOR ROB SHEPPERSON
    1 year ago
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Librarians of All Sorts

  • Wendie's Wanderings
    Picture Books are necessary
    19 minutes ago
  • Waking Brain Cells
    Review: Robot, Go Bot! by Dana Meachen Rau
    1 hour ago
  • MotherReader
    Booktalks: The Warrior Sheep Go West
    1 hour ago
  • A Patchwork of Books
    Dinner with the Smileys review and giveaway!
    6 hours ago
  • Fuse #8 Production
    Review of the Day: Jane, the Fox & Me by Fanny Britt
    10 hours ago
  • A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy
    Flashback June 2008
    10 hours ago
  • BooksForKidsBlog
    Hold the Macaroni! Crankee Doodle by Tom Angleberger
    12 hours ago
  • 100 Scope Notes
    The Great Summer Graphic Novel Giveaway
    13 hours ago
  • Book-A-Day Almanac
    Waiting for Wings
    14 hours ago
  • readerbuzz
    Wordless Wednesday: When Printing an Online Ruler Doesn't Work
    16 hours ago
  • Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast
    A Peek at Yuyi Morales’ Drawing Table
    1 day ago
  • TEACHERNINJA
    Happy Father's Day!
    3 days ago
  • Kiddosphere @ Fauquier
    Wowbrary Wednesday/Waiting For Wednesday
    1 week ago
  • Check It Out
    Poetry Friday: Summer Fun
    1 week ago
  • Pink Me
    BEA 2013 - a quick photoessay
    2 weeks ago
  • Book Moot
    2 months ago
  • Library By Any Other Name
    Turning the Page
    1 year ago
  • What Adrienne Thinks About That
    Arts and Crafts
    2 years ago
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Children's and YA

  • Becky's Book Reviews
    Five 2009 picture books
    10 minutes ago
  • Charlotte's Library
    Sidekicked, by John David Anderson
    7 hours ago
  • emilyreads
    Eleanor & Park: Review Haiku
    8 hours ago
  • Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog
    THE DARK CRYSTAL PREQUEL: SQUEES OF GEEKITUDE!!!
    19 hours ago
  • Jen Robinson's Book Page
    Happy Birdday, Tacky!: Helen Lester & Lynn Munsinger
    1 day ago
  • Chasing Ray
    On mountains and yachts and Italian princes. Really.
    2 days ago
  • books4yourkids
    The Year of the Gadfly by Jennifer Miller, 327 pp, RL TEEN
    2 days ago
  • Great Kid Books
    Common Core IRL: Frogs - discovering texts of increasing complexity
    2 days ago
  • Joy of Children's Literature
    Katherine Applegate on NPR
    5 days ago
  • Shelf Elf: read, write, rave.
    The definition of dramedy: The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen by Susin Nielsen
    1 week ago
  • Books Together Blog
    Horn Book Recommended Fantasy Books
    1 week ago
  • Cybils
    48-Hour Book Challenge
    3 weeks ago
  • Well-Read Child
    Still Here
    3 weeks ago
  • excelsior file
    if you want to see a whale
    5 weeks ago
  • Book Scoops
    Princess April Morning Glory by Letitia Fairbanks
    1 month ago
  • Book Aunt
    Thank You's, Goodbye's, and Archives
    2 months ago
  • Chicken Spaghetti
    Ides of March Award Roundup, 3.15.13
    3 months ago
  • BookKids Recommends
    Teen Event: Michael Scott
    1 year ago
  • Young Readers
    A Nest In Springtime
    1 year ago
  • Read Roger
    This blog has moved
    1 year ago
  • jama rattigan's alphabet soup
    alphabet soup has moved to wordpress!
    1 year ago
  • Write for a Reader
    I Can Breathe Again...For Now
    2 years ago
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Author/Illustrator Types

  • Original Content
    I'm Finding This Overwhelming Rather Than Inspiring
    52 minutes ago
  • CYNSATIONS
    Interview: Melissa Iwai and Anne Rockwell on Truck Stop
    5 hours ago
  • Greetings from Nowhere
    Hey book lovers...
    19 hours ago
  • Writers Read
    Anna L. Peterson
    23 hours ago
  • Kirby's Lane: A Place for Readers and Writers
    Howling Good News
    1 day ago
  • gracenotes
    Rain Dragon's Room!
    1 day ago
  • Neil Gaiman's Journal
    Publication Day! Links! Tired Neil!
    1 day ago
  • Blue Rose Girls
    Lucky Destiny Birthday Party!
    6 days ago
  • Bartography
    What am I putting in their way?
    1 week ago
  • Laini Taylor's blog
    German Secret Cover
    3 weeks ago
  • Painting Bunnies
    Painting
    5 weeks ago
  • Susan Writes
    Of Dogs and Writing - The End of a Chapter
    5 months ago
  • Adventures at Wilder Farm
    Summer
    9 months ago
  • Loree Griffin Burns: Reader, Writer, Scientist
    My New Place
    1 year ago
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On Writing and Publishing

  • Teaching Authors--6 Children's Authors Who Also Teach Writing
    Wednesday Writing Workout--STAND ON YOUR HEAD and revise!
    9 hours ago
  • Nathan Bransford - Blog
    Publication Alert: Hour of the Rat!
    1 day ago
  • Fiction Notes
    Out There: The Wrong Goal of Self-Publishing
    2 days ago
  • Brooklyn Arden
    Three Useful Terms for Discussing Endings
    2 days ago
  • Vivian Lee Mahoney
    David Foster Wallace on Ambition
    1 week ago
  • Children's Writing Web Journal
    The Successful Children’s Writer: Many Eggs, Many Baskets
    1 week ago
  • THE WRITE SISTERS
    I [We] Leave and Heave a Sigh...
    4 months ago
  • Editorial Anonymous
    My First App
    2 years ago

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