It's Monday - Poetry & Other Special Stories

    Visit Kellee and Ricki at UnleashingReaders and 

  

Jen at Teach Mentor Texts to see what they and others have been reading! Your TBR lists will grow! 

    from Cheriee at Library Matters: Just a reminder to everyone participating in #MustReadIn2022,  I will host an (entirely optional) update at the end of the month.

            

           I'm writing a poem every day in April for Poetry Month. Come visit, or, visit Jama's Alphabet Soup here for all the ways poets are celebrating this month.

     Nancy Merlin has written some amazing YA fantasy stories, but this time her fantastical writing is a book for middle schoolers. Sylvie and her mother and grandmother live in a medieval French village quite comfortably yet there are a few rumors that they may do more than brew herbs for healing. As other descriptions say, "Perhaps they're a bit . . . witchy". When Sylvie's grandmother dies, attempts to help her mother as she grieves go terribly wrong. Sylvie must seek help but struggles with whom to trust as the search becomes a mix of terror and a search into her own heart. It may be a lesson for growing up, a time to listen to self, a time to learn that some can be trusted, some cannot.
                         Thanks to Candlewick Press for this copy!

     

      From Baptiste Paul and Jacquelin Alcántara (remember The Field?) comes a gorgeous book about a climb where the dad is urged on to the top by his energetic daughter! Gorgeous illustrations on the pages show the steep and wild jungle setting as, eventually, it's the dad who does the support. The climb is filled with native animals and a huge reward at the end, the view! There's a fun surprise at the very end as well. This needs to be seen, read aloud, and enjoyed with a group. Not only will they enjoy the view all along the hike but learn a few Creole words as perhaps they pretend to mouté (Climb on!). First, a little bwe (drink), then a manjé (snack)! Time to get outside!