Happy New Year! January 2012 at ReaderkidZ is all about FANTASY and ADVENTURE. ReaderKidZ is proud to present RICHARD PECK as Author-in-Residence this month. His latest novel, SECRETS AT SEA, is a fantastic adventure involving charming corseted matchmaking mice aboard a great ocean liner due to reach England in time for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee… Read more »
Author-In-Residence
Richard’s Story
My first years of school were during World War II. In fact I marched into kindergarten the week Hitler marched into Poland. But I was better prepared than he. I’d had a mother who read to me, and so I couldn’t wait to get to first grade. I thought we’d be reading by the end… Read more »
Your Friend, Richard Peck
Dear Reader, Welcome to the journey and All Aboard my newest book. The title, SECRETS AT SEA, announces the story of a voyage. And those characters on the cover are Helena and her sisters Louise and Beatrice and their brother Lamont. All with beady eyes and long gray tails. Mice. And any story of mice,… Read more »
Welcome to ReaderKidZ, November 2011
Welcome Author-In-Residence, Melissa Sweet! This month, as we enter a season of holidays and celebrations, ReaderKidZ celebrates Family. At no time in our history have American families been more varied or culturally-diverse than they are today. All colors, all combinations, all coming together to forge strong connections that will help our children grow and thrive…. Read more »
Melissa’s Story
I grew up in New Jersey in a neighborhood filled with kids. We all raced around town on our bicycles (decked out with banana seats and moustache handle bars), and often ended up at Percy’s candy store. A nickel or a dime would buy a big handful of penny candy. I always got red licorice… Read more »
Your Friend, Melissa
Dear Reader, I’m thrilled you are reading BALLOONS OVER BROADWAY. My family always watched the Macy’s Day parade with the huge balloons bobbing through New York City, but I never thought about who actually made the balloons. When I first learned about Tony Sarg as a puppeteer and illustrator, I found out he was the… Read more »
Project Seahorse by Pamela Turner
Pamela Turner has teamed up with the Monterey Bay Aquarium to offer one of the most comprehensive selection of teacher resources ever presented on ReaderKidZ. With the book Project Seahorse in hand and the internet at his or her fingertips, a young reader can intimately come to appreciate the mesmerizing fish known as the seahorse…. Read more »
