Top Ten Tuesday Spin-off: Children's Fiction Authors

 This week's Top Ten Tuesday had my brain working in overdrive. There are too many authors that I MUST read, so I made several lists....

Kelly Yang
Sarah Mlynowski
Erin Soderberg Downing 
Stephanie Burgis

Katherine Battersby

Lyla Lee

Across Ages:

Lauren Castillo (author and illustrator)

Kate Messner (Author)

Christina Soontornvat (Author)

Shannon Hale (Author)

Sarah Beth Durst

* This is hard to do when I'm not in the library in front of the shelves...

Holiday Gift Ideas: Kids Fiction, Nonfiction, and Graphic Novels

Here are some of my favorites (4 and 5 star reads) that I read this year that would make GREAT holiday gifts!

Books make awesome gifts! Especially when you purchase them from independent bookstores.

You want to be early this year because of supply issues.

Kids Fiction:

  

   

 

    

 

 

Kids Nonfiction:

 

  

  

Graphic Novels:

   

 

 

  

   

 

Holiday Gift Ideas: Kids Fiction and Nonfiction

  Here are some of my favorites (5 and 4 star reads) that I read this year that would make GREAT holiday gifts!

Books make awesome gifts! Especially when you purchase them from independent bookstores.

Children's Fiction:

Children's Nonfiction:

My Reading History: Children's Fiction Years

 I was at a YA Librarian day a few weeks back and Teri Lesesne spoke about having everyone in her class create a reading history. It sounded like fun, so I thought I'd give it a try.

As I grew older, I wanted to read the books my sister read. I re-read books that I loved often. I used the library. I had my own books and shared books with my sister. 

We went through a Judy Blume phase.

The Little House books:

And the scary books:

Then the Babysitter Club books hit and that's all I read for a long time.

In 6th grade, I started to hide my reading, but I did check several of these out of the school library. They might have been my first romance books.