A must read young adult book that seamlessly weaves political, religious and social commentary with love stories and a wee little murder!

February 14th…Valentine’s Day and Library Lovers day!!! As I browsed my book shelf I found the perfect picture book…a love story that...

My pick to add to our library shelves for our 'thIS ABILITY' theme. Twelve-year-old Iris is a tech genius, in particular she loves...

Every once in a while I come across a book that leaves me awestruck. Achingly beautiful, this is one such book that will stay with me a...

My work requires me to often travel and interact with children, teachers and parents. I often see schools and school libraries tick all...

As I began reading Savie Karnel‘s The Nameless God, published by Red Panda, I was sucked into the book. Right from the names of the two...

During the first few months of the year, we planned to focus on books about characters with disabilities…seen and unseen, with a focus on...

We’ve been working our way through the three Jarul Book Awards books and MY GRANDMOTHER CAN’T COOK by Indu Balachandran, illustrated by...

I’ve just put my bookmark away and shut Uncontrollable by Varsha Seshan, a middle grade fantasy fiction book in verse and I must say that...

"The face that launched a 1000 ships" is metaphoric enough to get my 6th and 7th graders all excited as we go across the stories from the...

The news of the horrors going on in Gaza at the moment had got me down. In the library I noticed that children were all picking up...

For the last library period of term, I was looking for a story that was fun, that would take the children on a flight of imagination and...

When we began planning a trip to Turkey, little did I realise just how often I would find connections to my interests and more so to my...

Tuesday's are 'twosdays' over on my @mythaunty Instagram account, when I share two books that I've shared for a particular reason. This...

When N, a History teacher reached out to me for resources that could support her unit on the American Civil War, I remembered that I had...

Almost a year ago, my ‘BFF’, also a Jo-Ann….with no ‘e’ at the end, a ‘Child Life Specialist’ in the US, sent me this book...

This post was written for the Bookwallis Facebook page on 16 September, 2020 I’ve been a Story educator and Library educator for many...

When I think of FOOD, I think of ‘stretching the table’... always a place and a bowl for one more. When I think about stretching the...

“LEAVE MY BROTHERS ALONE.” These words stand out on the opening spread of Lady Tarzan! Jamuna takes a Stand, a picture book biography of...

This post was first shared on The Bookwallis Facebook page. FOOD features EVERYWHERE. Food is ubiquitous. From growing it, to harvesting...