Best Books 2011

I pulled together a list of "best books" for middle-grade and YA fiction from Hornbook, Kirkus, National Book Awards, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, New York Times, Washington Post and Amazon. It's cool to see how certain titles really stand out! I've got to get on reading Daughter of Smoke and Bone and The Scorpio Races right away.

Any interest in seeing something similar for picture books?

Re:Imagine Ed Wordle

Last month's Re:Imagine Ed Next Chapter Summit was so intense, I'm still pondering over some of the ideas we generated. Here's a wordle from my write-up of the event.

Dr. Seuss's Birthday

In celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday today, I thought I'd share this Wordle. It's the full text of Green Eggs and Ham.

Weekly wordle

Confession time. I took out the word, "Herbert" because otherwise it would have taken up half the image.  Here's this week's wordle.  It sort of looks like a footprint to me.

Updated Wordle

Here's how last weeks posts look according to Wordle.net.

The week in Wordle

Here's how this week's worth of blog posts look, according to wordle.net.  I was surprised, (although, I don't know why I should be) that "book" is the most popular word.