Do you know what a “tomte” is? I just found out that he is a mythical Scandinavian creature who is somewhat akin to garden gnomes. Winter and Christmas are his things. This blog post from Jump into a Book, the online source for kid-friendly multicultural links and titles, offers some great reading and audio suggestions
Publisher’s Weekly has collated some of 2015’s best lists of books for kids and teens including their own best-of! Source: Publishers' Weekly: A Roundup of 2015's Best Book Lists for Kids and Teens I really appreciate the fact that the books that were chosen come from a wide variety of sources. Canadian, British and
A great way to discover new titles is to check out the favourite books of authors that you like. For example, Ta-Nehisi Coates' book, Between the World and Me, is a bestseller in the United States. In this book, written in a direct address style to his son, Coates talks about what it was like to
