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Michael Fry, author of The Odd Squad and Official Ambassador of our Summer Reading Program, wants to make sure you kids are keeping up with your summer reading. Pick up a summer reading bookmark the next time you're in the store and start turning those pages! The school with the most participants in our Summer … Continue reading You Heard it From Michael Fry
~post by Children's Book Buyer Meghan G. We love summer, and we love books here at BookPeople. We have a great summer reading program currently going on for kids from kindergarten through 8th grade. But what about those tiniest book fans? Here are some our favorite picks for summer storytimes. The Watermelon Seed by Greg … Continue reading Favorite Picks for Summer Storytimes
My summer reading is usually done whenever I have a spare moment away from our literary camps where I work. My absolute favorite, though, is a nice two or three hour reading session in the hammock in my backyard. 1. Badass: Ultimate Deathmatch by Ben Thompson History has never been so much fun, or quite … Continue reading Tommy’s Summer Reads
I keep my summer reading on the escapist side. I'm not looking for a heavy intellectual challenge. I'm looking for a respite from the oppressive central Texas summer heat. I prefer to read at home, at night in my bed with crickets chirping in the trees outside my window and my ceiling fan blowing on … Continue reading Bosco’s Summer Reading List
Whether it's by the pool or on her lunch break, Consuelo will give you this dirty look if you interrupt her while she's reading. 1. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell The story of two teenage outcasts, you will fall in love with Eleanor & Park as they fall in love with each other. This … Continue reading Consuelo’s Summer Reads
School's almost out which means it's very close to being our favorite time of year - SUMMER! Barton Springs, sunscreen and good reads await us all. To encourage Austin's young readers to devour books along with their snow cones, this year we're once again happy to offer a free summer reading program for kids going … Continue reading Give Me Summer! Give Me Books!
If you’d like to keep up with all of our BookKids news, subscribe to our monthly BookKids e-newsletter. We also have all of our usual fun & fabulous storytimes happening this month for your very young readers. All storytimes and events are free and open to the public. Join us! ______________________________________________________________ S U M M E R R E … Continue reading What’s Happening in BookKids?
~Post by Kester & Harrison A long time favorite of mine, and Harrison’s number two pick from our summer selections, is Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. While we both read each of the books from this list, Treasure Island was the only book that we read aloud together, and it certainly enhanced the experience and … Continue reading Kester & Harrison’s Summer Reading: TREASURE ISLAND
~Post by Kester & Harrison The Sisters Grimm by Michael Buckley Just a chapter or two into Michael Buckley’s The Sisters Grimm, Harrison dramatically declared, “this book is going to be my favorite of the whole summer!!” It is certainly a lot of fun. Buckley reimagines fairy tale characters living in something like our own … Continue reading Kester & Harrison’s Summer Reading: SISTERS GRIMM and THE GREAT BRAIN
~Post by Kester The second book that Harrison and I read for our shared summer reading was Shakespeare’s Secret by Elise Broach. Harrison quickly praised this as a “much better book than Dragonbreath” and I would hasten to agree. Both of us loved that there were multiple mysteries and the ways in which they were … Continue reading Kester & Harrison’s Summer Reads: SHAKESPEARE’S SECRET
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