Tag Archives: Books

Children’s Literacy Initiative (Day of Blogs ’08 #42)

Won’t someone please donate to Children’s Literacy Initiative? Straight from their website, here is how CLI’s Professional Development Program works: • Developing Engaging Read Alouds Because being read to adds directly to children’s knowledge and vocabulary, experts stress the importance of reading aloud to students. At the writing center, a first-grader has word books, a [...]

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Illuminated Manuscripts (Day of Blogs ’08 #39)

Illuminated manuscripts – the world’s first picture books!  To see some stunning images (I absolutely LOVE looking at illuminated manuscripts), please click below! Collect Britain Koninklijke Bibliotheek and Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum New York Public Library Flickr search results Another fascinating link is to the St. John’s Bible project.  This is a work in progress to recreate [...]

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Bookcrossing’s Most Registered Books (Day of Blogs ’08 #37)

I’ve already talked about Bookcrossing, so I thought I’d take a look at what the most registered books on the site are: Most Registered Books 1 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 3,155 2 Life of Pi by Yann Martel 1,875 3 Angels & Demons by Dan Brown 1,860 4 The Lovely Bones by [...]

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