Jen Robinson has a new list of 175 Cool Boys of Chidren’s Literature. Check it out.

The teacher-bloggers at A Year of Reading are compiling a list of Cool Teachers of Children’s Literature. Go over and add your contributions.

What fun! Google has a tool that can translate your blog from English into several other languages. Or if you come across a German blog that you want to read, Google translates it into English for you. I had my blog translated into Spanish, and I don’t know how readable the electronic translation was, but it seemed understandable, but a little rocky, to me. I wonder how that last sentence would translate. ¿Cómo una piedra?
HT: Kim at Hiraeth

Amanda Witt writes, lovingly and poignantly, about a relative who has Alzheimer’s. Also, from Amanda, you always have a choice. I quoted Edith Schaeffer about this very issue a few days ago, and Amanda says it again. We are finite human beings. We make choices. We can’t do everything, have everything, but we can have something, do something, create something. Make a choice and live it to the fullest.