Holding on to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting for
10 best books like Holding on to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting for (Thomas Newkirk): Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Still Life with Woodpecker, Through the Woods, What It Is, Wolf Hollow, Rain Reign, The Best American Comics 2009, Ramayana: Divine Loophole (Hindu Mythology Books, Books on Hindu Gods and Goddesses, Indian Books for Kids), Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 0385480016 |
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and...
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1590303164 |
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice--"it...
Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary...
| Author | Emily Carroll |
| ISBN | 1442465956 |
This book freaked my shit out.
Yeah. How's that for a blurb?
"This freaked my shit out."
- Patrick Rothfuss
The truth is, this book is amazing. I've read a lot of great comics this last year, and out of all of them, this is the one that had the most profound emotional effect...
| Author | Lynda Barry |
| ISBN | 1897299354 |
How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry’s compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true...
| Author | Lauren Wolk |
| ISBN | 1101994827 |
Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying seems isolated at first,...
| Author | Ann M. Martin |
| ISBN | 0312643004 |
Rose Howard has Asperger’s syndrome, and an obsession with homonyms (even her name is a homonym). She gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose’s rules of homonyms, is very special. Rain was a lost dog Rose’s father brought home. Rose and Rain are practically...
Now in its fourth year, Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributers. Editor Charles Burns—cartoonist, illustrator, and official cover artist of the Believer—has culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers,...
Artist and veteran Pixar animator Sanjay Patel lends a lush, whimsical illustration style and lighthearted voice to one of Hindu mythology's best-loved and most enduring tales. Teeming with powerful deities, love-struck monsters, flying monkey gods, magic weapons, demon armies, and divine love,...
| Author | Penny Kittle |
| ISBN | 0325010978 |
Please join us in congratulating Penny Kittle for her 2009 NCTE Britton Award for Write Beside Them
"This book is about teaching writing and the gritty particulars of teaching adolescents. But it is also the planning, the thinking, the writing, the journey: all I've been putting into my teaching...
| Author | Penny Kittle |
| ISBN | 0325042950 |
"I believe each of my students must craft an individual reading life of challenge, whim, curiosity, and hunger, and I've discovered that it is not too late in high school to lead a non-reader to reading. It's never too late."-Penny Kittle
Penny Kittle wants us to face the hard truths every English...
| Author | Kylene Beers |
| ISBN | 9780325046 |
"Notice and Note" picks up where Keene and Zimmermann left off (or left us hanging) with strategy-based comprehension instruction. Like many teachers in the 1990's, after I read Keene & Zimmermann's "Mosaic of Thought" I attempted to explicitly teach visualizing, connecting, inferencing,...
