Mr. Odle's Big Bad Book Blog

The Portage District Library had a book sale yesterday. They have six of them a year, but for some strange reason, I seem able to only get to about half of them. It’s always a lot of fun, and you can pick up some great bargains. Most paperbacks are three… (Keep reading)

Donna Jo Napoli (author of Beast, The Magic Circle, and Stones in Water) was the featured speaker at this year’s Michigan Council of Teachers of English Bright Ideas Conference in Lansing, Michigan. She began by reading from her book, Ugly, which is a retelling of the Ugly Duckling fairy tale