BookExpo America took place earlier this month in New York City, and it’s always one of my favorite events. I always need to leave myself a few days to see the show because I’m constantly stopping to read in the booths and waiting in autograph lines. This year my autograph lines included many of my kidlit favorites, including Jon Scieszka, Oliver Jeffers, Bob Shea, Betsy Lewin, and Peter Reynolds, all of whom have new books out.
I fell in love with a ton of picture books, especially Bob Shea’s Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great
I was recently talking to a mom who was telling me how much time her son spends with the Lego encyclopedias from DK Publishing. Now, for kids who love Pokemon, there’s the Pokemon Visual Companion
Kids who love Angry Birds can convince their parents that the games are educational with the new National Geographic books that use Angry Birds to teach about physics
I had a lovely chat with Bob Der, Director of Time for Kids, about getting kids excited about reading (especially nonfiction) and how Time for Kids is finding a home in the classroom. Their books are about topics kids get excited about, like dinosaurs and sports and crazy, weird facts and information. They also have digital versions of many books to have a presence on interactive whiteboards in the classroom, “high-impact versions” made better with video. When I think about all the nonfiction requirements in the Common Core Standards, I’m glad for things like Time for Kids.
Cozy Classics are an adorable line of board books that attempt to tell classic tales like Pride and Prejudice
As a kid I was a fan of the Ripley’s Believe It or Not segments that appeared in my Sunday comics, and I’ve stayed intrigued all these years. Ripley’s had a great presence at BookExpo this year, including the gigantic Dare to Look!
There was much to salivate over in the Chronicle book, including Carnivores
I wish I could tell you this was a real Monster Book of Monsters, but alas it was just a box. What a great place to store your treasures, though. People would think twice before opening.
Other books that came home with me to fill my summer with reading are Octavia Spencer’s debut novel, Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective:The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit
That statue in the first picture is not a Pokemon, that’s a Lego Chima (unless you were trying to highlight the poster in the background).
You’re so right, although I can see how somebody without a kid as in love with Chima as mine is would think the posters meant that was a Pokemon. I’ll go edit the caption.
Sorry, grabbed the wrong picture! Thanks for the correction.
My son is in love with Legos, building and chima. Is there any way you could send me a photo of the lego chima character you have posted in this post ‘great books for geek kids’. He would love to try and create it himself based on the photo.
Thank you!