2019 Notable Poetry Books
“Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief—everything that is human.” —F. Sionil José Each year, the Excellence in Poetry for Children Award committee …
Build Your Stack: Public-Domain Poetry Recommendations
This blog post is part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge and …
Announcing the 2019 NCTE Children’s Book Awards
Books have the power to transform lives, and the Charlotte Huck, Orbis Pictus, and Excellence in Poetry for Children awards …
Build Your Stack: Learning about Others, Learning about Ourselves
This blog post is part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge and …
Criminalizing Racialized Bodies: Then and Now
This blog post was written by NCTE member Rachel Endo. Endo is the author of The Incarceration of Japanese Americans in …
Build Your Stack: Short and Sweet: An Anthology to Spark Reading
This blog post is part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge and …
The Results are In!
America’s favorite novel ever has been named: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. More than four million votes were cast …
Build Your Stack: Books and Poetry on Courage, Hope, and Humanity
This blog post is part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge …
Text Tension
Many “acceptable” reading curricula resemble an orderly progression of texts organized by steps and numbers when neither make sense. –What’s …
Build Your Stack: Books Save Lives
This blog post is part of Build Your Stack,® a new initiative focused exclusively on helping teachers build their book knowledge …