I volunteer as a School Reading Partner through my local school district. My job? Reading one-on-one each week with two first graders I’ll call Eva and Nick. Although the program provides reading materials, the selection is limited. So each Friday, I bring in a big bag of books hoping some …
Welcome to 2019! I hope everyone enjoyed their 2018 with us here on the PBB Blog as much as I did. There were some really amazing books covered. And speaking of amazing books, I’m happy to to have Jon Agee’s THE WALL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BOOK as my …
Read any Jon Agee books lately? He’s got a lot of them, including three in the past three years—It’s Only Stanley (2015), Lion Lessons (2016), and Life on Mars (2017; all from Dial). As a Jon Agee fan, I knew I wanted to feature one here—but which one? I decided …