From: Terry Doherty <terry>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:47:12 -0400

I love blogs (and my reader is straining as the list inches toward 50). There is a broad array on the list, from blogs about writing and authors to literacy-related news and book reviewers. My everyday must-reads are these

author/reviewer: MotherReader http://www.motherreader.com/, librarians 7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/ author/non-fiction I.N.K. (Interesting Non-Fiction for Kids) http://inkrethink.blogspot.com/ advocates like Jen Robinson's book page http://jkrbooks.typepad.com/blog/ Reviewers Jill _at_ The Well-Read Child http://wellreadchild.blogspot.com/ Reviewer: Kelly Herold _at_ Big A little a (also home to The Edge of the Forest) http://kidslitinformation.blogspot.com/

We read Reading Today Daily, literacynews.com, and various trade blogs
(ReadRoger, Fuse #8), but to really get a sense of the "pulse" of children's literature and literacy, I need these bloggers.

Terry

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> July is officially under way with the holiday weekend behind us. To
> begin our blog talk, I reviewed some of blogs I frequent to get the
> latest opinions and bits of news. Imagine my surprise when I discovered
> that the blog of YA author Sara Zarr <http://www.sarazarr.com/> was "on
> vacation." Blogs seemingly have a life of their own, a form of virtual
> expostulation or cyber coffee klatch. (For those new to the blogging
> community, a definition of a blog is provided below.) The blogs I tend
> to read offer me an opportunity to find out what other people in the
> world of children's and young adult literature are up to. Checking in on
> Roger Sutton's <http://www.hbook.com/blog/> blog for the Horn Book, I
> got his take on the recent American Library Association's annual
> conference (which I also attended). I also enjoying reading the blogs of
> authors I like (eg. Scott Westerfield's westerblog
> <http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/>) or ones I'm curious about (eg.
> Siobhan Vivian <http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/>). As a former school
> librarian, blogs were a useful format to explore in book groups.
> Students often found it to be an engaging assignment to read the
> comments left on a blog and then compose their own comments or
> counter-arguments (on or offline). Creating a book group blog was also a
> successful project and a format that inspired some students to write and
> reflect in a new way.
>
> What's your opinion on blogs? I'm eager to hear about new blogs to read
> as well as how often readers frequent various blogs.
>
> Tessa
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>
> Definition for /blog/ from Merriam Webster online dictionary:
> Pronunciation: \?blo?g, ?bl?g\
> Function:/ noun/
> Etymology: short for /Weblog/
> Date: 1999
> *:* a Web site that contains an online personal journal with
> reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer;
> /also/ *:* the contents of such a site
> ? blog?ger /noun/
> ? blog?ging /noun/
>
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