It’s never too early to be hip and tech savy. Check out this NPR article about children’s book apps for iPods, iPhones and iPads. Ruckus Media founder, Rick Richter commented on his companies goals in designing digital media for tiny tots, focusing especially on their award winning adaptation of A Present For Milo. “What a 2- to [...]
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Nantucket Elementary School is working toward a Guinness World Record. Here’s the proposal… Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Storybook Characters by Janet Colby Subject matter of the record: Language Arts Description of the record and how it can be incorporated into daily classroom lesson plans: The students and faculty of Nantucket Elementary School believe [...]
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Hardcover Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Paperbacks Something Missing by Matthew Dicks Weeping Underwater Looks A Lot Like Laughter by Michael J. White Audiobooks A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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Hardcover Skippy Dies by Paul Murray Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses by Claire Dederer Paperbacks Nurture Shock by Po Bronson Burning Marguerite by Elizabeth Inness-Brown Just Kids by Patti Smith (This book is so good that everyone at the store is reading it and loving it. Wendy called it “life changing” so I [...]
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Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini is being called “Percy Jackson for teenage girls.” It’s a delicious meld of Greek Mythology and high school romance, but the part we like best is that it’s set on Nantucket! Glory of glories! (The island’s too small to fudge building locations and street names so it’s good that Angelini gets [...]
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Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday, so here’s some of our favorite reads to whisk you away to New Orleans (no flashing required). A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Madeleine’s Ghost by Robert Girard The Moviegoer by Walker Percy Off Magazine Street by Ronald Everett Capps Zeitoun by Dave Eggers City of Refuge by Tom [...]
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Hardcovers Swamplandia by Karen Russell We The Drowned by Carsten Jensen Paperbacks The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman Annabel by Kathleen Winter Audiobooks Brief Interveiws with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Young Adult Delirium by Lauren Oliver
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