The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child by Donalyn Miller
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I have gotten so many great ideas from Donalyn's book which emphasizes letting students read what they want and they will read more. She has her tried and true methods, students' reviews and conversations and just a wonderful way of children reading lots of great books. BUT!!! She stresses you must be a reader too; modeling reading in the classroom and constantly sharing books with book talks and a large classroom library and visiting the school library. So if you love to read, keep on reading and sharing your love of new books and tried and true books with you students. Highly recommended!!!

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Young Adult Literature from Romance to Realism

Young Adult Literature: From Romance to Realism by Michael Cart

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Michael Cart's book does an awesome job of looking at the rise of young adult literature, from wat back when to almost today. Each decade is covered and many of the genres are included. This would be a great book for librarians and teachers of young adult literature. Cart includes lots of statistics which are very interesting, many titles of books up until 2010 and what I liked was he kept bringing up current titles and authors because if you are interested in YA literature, you need to read the most current articles, books and authors in order to help your readers (be they teachers, students, friends, etc) I highly recommend this book, it is a paperback and it is around 200 pages. The only criticism I found was in discussing Scott's Scott's name became Stone and I think the editors should have caught that mistake.



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