Over at The Miss Rumphius Effect, Tricia passed along a challenge. In an effort to bring the children's book blogs (aka the "kidlitosphere") together a few folks have come up with the idea of everyone who wants to join in posting comments on at least five of these kind of blogs a day. Apparently there may be prizes.
I'm doing it because as a K-5 teacher and future media specialist these kind of blogs are invaluable to me. I'm pretty busy and the content in my own blog has suffered, I'm sure and I know my commenting has (which was never robust to begin with). I appreciate these blogs and am taking up the challenge of posting comments on five of them a day for the next 21 days.
Comments are always welcome here as well, but I do not fancy myself a kid lit blogger. I obviously have many posts on reading and children's books but book reviewing is not a focus here (though there have been a few). Perhaps that will change over the next few weeks as I make more of an effort to comment away.
This commenting thing is one of the best things about blogging. It's the reason I added a "recent comment" feed on the right hand side of this blog, to honor my commentors. They rock so hard.
So go ahead. Give it a shot. You'll make some lonely bloggers very happy.
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