Scott Riley, the SAS middle school literacy coach, just alerted me to the fact that the “Curve Ball” title on the Red Dot Books: Mature longlist was the wrong one. …
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The world through picture books
The World through Picture Books is an on-going initiative of the International Federation of Library Associations. Participating countries have each contributed ten favourite picture books to produce a wonderfully international…
PD opportunity – IFLA World Congress, Singapore 17-23 August 2013
The International Federation of Library Associations will be holding its world congress here in Singapore in August. The theme is “Future libraries: infinite possibilities.”Here is a link to the programme…
Summer Red Dot Longlists…. and the AFCC today….
Six of us met on Saturday (Kate B (SAS), Carla (EtonHouse) , Lisa (CIS), and two middle school literacy specialists — Scott from SAS and Angie from UWC Dover) and…
Red Dot longlist meeting, Saturday May 25
Now that Readers Cup is past, it’s time to look forward to the 2013-2014 Red Dot Books. Yesterday at SJII, Lisa Patton (CIS), Kate Brundage (SAS) were chatting and decided…
And the winners of the Readers Cup are….
We had a very successful Readers Cup event yesterday at SJI International. For full information, including the scores for each team and the questions & answers for each competition, go…
School visits by local authors available through APD.
Our friends at APD have advised that they have local children’s authors available for school visits at no charge. What an opportunity!One such author is Maranna Chan, creator of the…
Possible Storyteller Visit: Courtney Campbell
Homepage: http://www.courtneycampbell.com Click here for brochures, price information, etc. about Courtney Campbell. Courtney is already booked to perform at some international schools in KL and HK — and is interested…
Readers Cup: Sample Questions & Posters Available
Sample questions for all the books (5-10 each) are ready, in Google spreadsheet form. Have your students create their own in the same vein for prep purposes. Click here for…
Professional Development
I’ve just updated our page of professional development links — which you can always check by clicking the Regional PD box in the header. Please let me know if I…