Book Blogging Kids

Anyone who spends time with avid kid readers knows how much they like to talk about books. Wanting to give those in our middle school an audience beyond their immediate world, my Dalton School colleagues Roxanne Feldman, Ellen Nickles, and I started an after-school book blogging club. Every week these literary enthusiasts come to my room; sift through my books and advance reader copies; choose to read whatever catches their fancy; and, after reading them, write blog reviews about them. Here are a few recent ones:

• AE has some thoughts about I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure.
• JY considered Donna Jo Napoli's The Wager.
• VS has a review of Loretta Ellsworth's In a Heartbeat.
• AL read and reviewed the forthcoming Wish by Joseph Monniger.
• Fantasy buff GI read another soon-to-publish book, Jonathan Stroud's The Ring of Solomon. Here's what she thought.
• RG took on Poop Happens: A History of the World from the Bottom Up by Sarah Albee and ...well, go here to get his take on it.

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Comments

[ChavezMayus]

03:41 PM on 10/16/2010

Jules Verne School in Mexico City is handing a reading review bolg too, we our children share and discuss with other schools the book they are reading.

Children loves to publish what they write because they have responses from others, this encourages them to make more connections with their reading!

[Read AloudDad]

09:07 PM on 10/15/2010

This is a nice initiative to involve young readers in a children's review/blog effort.

Not only does it help with reading, but also with writing skills.

If you need reading aloud book reviews for kids, I've got some of the best books reviewed.

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