Tag: NorthSouth Books Inc.

• Book Review: Mayhem at the Museum by Hannah Bruckner

  Thank you to NetGalley and NorthSouth Books for the ARC of Mayhem at the Museum (September, 2025), a soon-to-be published children’s picture book. This delightfully illustrated picture book is the story of young Yuri who is terrified of birds. Okay, that’s fine. The story goes on, however, that Yuri is at a museum observing a…

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  May 28, 2025

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  book-review, books, children’s picture book, dinosaur, Hannah Bruckner, Hurricane Katrina, Italy, Mayhem at the Museum, middle school, NetGalley, NorthSouth Books Inc., reading, teaching

• Book Review: Buzz! Boom! Bang! By Benjamin Gottwald

  This delightful children’s picture book has no words, just beautiful and colorful illustrations. It is a master class in the literary device onomatopoeia. If I were still teaching middle school language arts, I would bring this book into my 7th and 8th grade literature classroom and have students sit in small groups to “read” it…

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  May 25, 2025

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  Benjamin Gottwald, book-review, books, Buzz! Boom! Bang!, education, Hamburg Picture Book Prize, Hurricane Katrina, illustrations, language arts, literary device, literature, Louisiana, middle school, Mississippi River, NetGalley, nonfiction, NorthSouth Books Inc., onomatopoeia, picture book, reading, teacher, teaching

• Book Review: A Chest Full of Words by Rebecca Gugger and Simon Rothlisberger, translated from the German by Tim Mohr

  As an English and literature teacher for nearly 20 years, I have coached (and in some cases, coaxed) middle schoolers on essay writing, including the use of descriptive writing, more specifically the use of adjectives and adverbs. One method I used was to read with them an example of good descriptive writing, starting with Chapter…

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  September 23, 2024

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  A Chest Full of Words, Annie Dillard, baking, book-review, books, British, chicken, cooking, English, essays, food, language arts, Laurie Colwin, library, literature, middle school, More Home Cooking, NetGalley, nonfiction, NorthSouth Books Inc., Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, reading, Rebecca Gugger, Simon Rothlisberger, teacher, teaching, The Metamorphisis, Tim Mohr, translated from the German, vocabulary, writer, writing