The ABC's have never been more fashionable in this delightful alphabet book.
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Sheryl Berk and Carrie Berk snapped this selfie at BookCon in May where they launched Fashion Academy!
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When I wrote the first notes about my sixteen-year-old detective, Axelle Anderson, I was living in Paris, France, doing a short stint as PA to fashion designer John Galliano (then designing for the fashion house Christian Dior), so the fashion world was more on my mind than ever, and the idea of a fashion mystery took hold straight away.
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Here is a sneak peek at the jacket cover of Carina Axelsson’s summer release, Model Undercover: Paris, a middle grade novel published by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky (July 1, 2014).
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How do we teach compassion?
By Luisa LaFleur, The Children’s Book Review
Published: February , 2012
Kids can be mean. Sometimes our kids are on the receiving end of the taunts and name-calling and that’s hard to deal with. But other times our kids are on the giving end and that’s even harder to deal with. Teaching children to be compassionate—to understand someone else’s suffering and to try and alleviate that suffering—is not easy. A key first step is to get children to understand that mean actions—teasing, name-calling and the like—can be hurtful. Here are a few books that can help impart the message that being kind to one another is essential and that the golden rule is paramount.
The Hundred Dresses
By Eleanor Estes; Illustrated by Helena Estes and Louis Slobodkin
Reading level: Ages 5 and up
Paperback: 80 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing
What to expect: Lessons about friendship; allusions to poverty and immigration; harships
In The Hundred Dresses, which takes place around the time of World War I, Wanda wears the same faded blue dress to school every day. One day, in the midst of playful banter, Wanda tells her classmates that she has one hundred beautiful dresses at home, all lined up and that she wears the dresses on special occasions. The other girls don’t believe her and begin to tease her about it daily. One girl, Maddie, feels bad about the teasing but doesn’t speak up for fear the teasing will turn to her. But as time passes, she comes to see the error of her ways and learns how important it is to stand up for your friends.
This is an intricate story that offers many opportunities for discussion. Wanda is poor. She’s an immigrant from another country at a time when there were no social networks to provide support. She speaks with an accent that automatically sets her apart from the other girls. But in essence, she’s just a little girl who wants to fit in and have friends.
Add this book to your collection: The Hundred Dresses
Watch Your Tongue, Cecily Beasley
By Lane Fredrickson; Illustrated by Jon Davis
Reading level: Ages 5 and up
Hardcover: 22 pages
Publisher: Sterling Children’s Books
What to expect: Rude behavior and its aftermath
Cecily is a ghastly child. She’s rude, impertinent, ungrateful and can be downright mean. She doesn’t say please or thank you, she doesn’t share, and she sticks her tongue out at her classmates and teachers. But one day, her tongue gets stuck and she can’t put it back in her mouth. She has a hard lesson to learn about kindness and it takes some time but eventually Cecily realizes that she’s not been very nice to anybody.
This simple story has a strong message—sometimes we don’t realize how hurtful we c
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