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Banning Books

March 23, 2024December 13, 2023 by Martin and Root

This month we had planned to write about several books we love that have been banned, but we realized that along with giving you a list of banned books we really wanted to write about the current tsunami of book banning in our country.

Naming Your Labels

March 7, 2021October 14, 2020 by Ellie Roscher and Caren Stelson

Living from a Place of Inner Peace

Ellie: Michael Hall’s Red: A Crayon’s Story is the tale of a blue crayon with a red label. The crayon was not very good at being red. He couldn’t draw strawberries or work with yellow to draw an orange. Everyone tried to help. Even scissors and sharpeners made snips and tucks to see if changing him would help.

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Creating Collage

March 8, 2021March 19, 2020 by Zachary Stier

As we move into the spring season, the lesson of hope from The Very Hungry Caterpillar,a book that employs paper collage for its illustrations, inspired these activities.

Celebrating the Square Pegs

March 8, 2021May 22, 2019 by Martin and Root

This month the two of us are actually in the same place at the same time, and we’re having a conversation about square pegs. We are all not just square pegs and round pegs. We are triangles, pentagons, hexagon, oval, rhomboids, stars. There are shapes for everyone and places, too, where each of us fits best. But we all know what being a square peg means.… more

Perspective

March 8, 2016February 23, 2016 by Vicki Palmquist

At Bookology, we believe the adage about “the right book for the right reader.” Those are not necessarily the books that we see in advertisements, in the bloggers’ buzz, or on award lists. Only by listening to each other, and especially to kids, talk about books do we find those gems our hearts were looking for but didn’t know existed.… more

Skinny Dip with Michael Hall

February 22, 2016February 2, 2016 by Vicki Palmquist

What is your proudest career moment? Several months before the publication of my book, Red: A Crayon’s Story, The Wall Street Journal published an editorial bemoaning the “gender industrial complex,” “cultural warriors,” and books—including mine—“that seek to engage the sympathies of young readers … and nudge the needle of culture.” I had written something good enough to provoke the wrath of the WJS editorial page.… more

Banning Books

Naming Your Labels

Creating Collage

Celebrating the Square Pegs

Perspective

Skinny Dip with Michael Hall

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