Weekend Reading 3/23/06
March 23, 2006
Remember how in college the weekend started on Thursday? Tomorrow will be a blogging holiday at Chicken Spaghetti, so here is the weekend reading a bit early. Pour yourself a cup of coffee, and dive in! Don't worry about the splash...
- Enough with the "mommy wars" already, at the Forward
- No reading 'til 2nd grade? An emphasis on art and nature? A Waldorf School profiled, in the Newtown (CT) Bee
- Caldecott winner The Hello, Goodbye Window elbows Fancy Nancy aside for #1 spot on picture-book list, at Publishers Weekly
- Coyote chase in Central Park, in The New York Times
- A profile of "most challenged" kids' books author Robie H. Harris, courtesy of the Scripps-Howard News Service
- Free printable book plates by famous UK illustrators, at My Home Library
- A musical "Sarah Plain and Tall," plus travelling productions, at TheatreworksUSA
- The movie "Curious George" reviewed, at The Horn Book
- 2005 publishing trends, at the Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Includes "picture book lows and highs."
- A science teacher who is not permitted to use the "e" word (evolution) and is not permitted to tell his students how old rocks are, at the Arkansas Times
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