Nonfiction Review: Art but Make It Sports

LJ Rader takes sports pictures and connects them to famous picture of art.

As a sports and an art person, I found this fascinating. 

I didn't know all the art works showcased. 

I loved how (most of the time), I could see exactly what the author was thinking choosing these works of art. 

There were some women's sport pictures, but there could have been more.

I love this idea. I hope this gets looked at a lot in my library.

Booklist: Summer Olympics

 

The games start today!

Who will you be watching?

I'm partial watching to Gymnastics, Basketball, Track and Field, and Swimming

Catch up on some books while you wait for your favorite sport(s):

Happy Reading and Happy Watching! 

Book Tok: Bring It On

 

I loved Bring It On - so I was super excited to see there was a book coming out about it. I don't read many nonfiction books for adults, but there was no way I was not reading this one.

And it was good!

@yabooknerdlibrarian #stitch with @laurasu90 Bring It On! The history of how the movie was made and its legacy - really fun read. Now I need to go watch the movie! Toothbrushing scene anyone? #bringiton #cheerleading #cheerocracy #booktok #movie #books #toros #clovers #sportsmovie ♬ original sound - Jennifer @YA Book Nerd 📚📚📚

And now I want books about Clueless and 10 Things I Hate About You and What a Girl Wants and The Cutting Edge... 

Review: Weird but True

300 facts about the USA,

Bright colors. Great photographs. Interesting facts.

This is a great book to read with someone else. 

Some fun facts: 

Banana twinkies. YUCK!

Yes, I'm one of those. YUM.

Weird but fascinating! Nerds for the Win!!

Cool. Who doesn't love fun facts about libraries???

Teen Summer Reading (4)

  It's that time of year again to start planning the Teen Summer Reading Program.

I have a bunch of craft ideas to choose from this year. I'm not sure teens care about the theme as much, so my crafts don't always follow that.

We're virtual again this summer, so we're creating Take & Make craft bags.

Last time we talked about crafts and food. And my favorite nonfiction books.

This week is also all about books, but books I'm planning to purchase for the collection. Again, teen books don't have animal books in the same way as Children's books. So these are again all nonfiction.

But really they're geared towards anyone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teen Summer Reading (3)

 It's that time of year again to start planning the Teen Summer Reading Program.

I have a bunch of craft ideas to choose from this year. I'm not sure teens care about the theme as much, so my crafts don't always follow that.

We're virtual again this summer, so we're creating Take & Make craft bags.

Last time we talked about crafts and food.

This week it's all about books. I don't have as many books as I did for the kids. It's harder to buy animal books for teens, but the nonfiction ones do well at my library. More coffee table books and National Geographic Books.

Here are a few favorites.

There are a couple of Momo books. You have to find him in all the pictures. 

Super Cute! Very funny. And fun to look at with other people.

More funny pictures of dogs

More puppies!

#WeRateDogs - find them on Twitter and Instagram.

Learn how to communicate better with your dog.

There is one for cats too, but I'm a dog person.

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:

Thanksgiving Picture Books (2)

 

Here are some Thanksgiving reads that I've read this year. I'm still working on updating the collection, so if you have a favorite, please let me know.

I would really love #OwnVoices stories. 

Falling for Autumn: Pete the Cat
Pete the Cat isn't sure about autumn, but he discovers all there is to love about the fall. This doesn't seem like a Thanksgiving book until the end of the book. But they celebrate fall with a feast which includes a cornucopia of all the fall items Pete has collected during his aventures.

This is not a picture book, but I'm including it because it has great information about the Mayflower, the Pilgrims, and that first Thanksgiving. This nonfiction book (225 pages) doesn't pull any punches about racism in early America. I really enjoyed reading about the history - and what was different than we were taught in school. Lots of pictures and facts make it easy to keep turning the pages of this book. I'm looking forward to more books in this series.

Nonfiction Review: NBA Playoffs

My team, the Celtics, might be out of the playoffs, but I still like seeing a great playoff game.

And reading about basketball. So I picked up this book, new to my library, and read it.

It was pretty good. I had one problem with the book:

The birth of the superteam didn't begin with James, Wade, and Bosh - it began with these three:

Photo Credit: The Boston Globe

The rest of the book had amazing photographs, great information, and lots of knowledge about the beginning years.

Library Recommendation: Grab this one for your school and public libraries; it's perfect for your basketball loving readers. 

Summer Reading Program: Universe of Stories (4)

The past couple weeks I've talked about programming ideas.

You can find them here.

But this week, I'm going to talk about some space books. This is by no means a compilation of books, just a jumping off point if you're looking for some new items to add to your collection.