Broadcast on November 18, 2021
Books and More for Promoting Literacy and Thinking in Kids
Susannah Richards
Eastern Connecticut University
Description
Looking for recommendations to ignite, delight, and cultivate lifelong readers? This session highlights recently published books that kids will want to binge read. It includes suggested fiction and nonfiction, middle grade and young adult novels, picture books, graphic novels, and more.
About the presenter
Susannah Richards is an associate professor of Education at Eastern Connecticut State University where she teaches courses on literacy and literature. She has a PhD in Gifted Education from the University of Connecticut where she studied talented readers. She has served on the Newbery, Geisel, Connecticut Book Award, Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children’s Literature, and other award committees for children’s literature. She actively reads and presents on books for youth and how to use them at international, national, and local conferences. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @SussingOutBooks.
