Children's Book Week, 2014

Order this year's poster art by Robin Preiss Glasser

What will you do to celebrate? 

Visit a local bookstore event or at the Plaza with Eloise?
Promote literacy in your neighborhood? How about sharing a book with kids at your local children's hospital?
Host a book party using some of these fabulously bookish ideas on Pinterest?
Get writing with these story starters by Mo Willems, Barbara Park, Lemony Snicket, and others?

DOGOBooks is springing into summer reading with giveaways for young readers and their schools. Check it out!

75 Years of
Children's Book Week Posters,
by Leonard S. Marcus.

Peruse the 75 book week posters in Leonard Marcus's history of CBW.


How do you celebrate Children's Book Week? Add your link below.

Independence Day 2013

Happy Fourth!

If your idea of relaxing involves books, as does mine, then may I suggest these Patriotic picturebooks.

The Star Spangled Banner,
 by Peter Spier

Paul Revere's Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
and Ted Rand

The Journey of the One and Only
Declaration of Independence,
 by Judith St. George and Will Hillenbrand

George Washington's Breakfast,
by Jean Fritz and Paul Galdone

Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?
by Jean Fritz and Trina Schart Hyman

America, A Patriotic Primer,
by Lynne Cheney and
Robin Preiss Glasser