You guys might be wondering why itโs July 10 and there has been none of the usual summer book club coverage for your kids. Well this year, instead of asking Lemony Snicket or George Saunders or Shaun Tan for reading recommendations, we figured weโd step things up a bit and go right to the source: Our 11-year-old daughter, Phoebe, who Iโm proud to say has launched her own blog, Nerd Alert.ย Itโs dedicated to the great love of her life โ books, comic, graphic novels, and โother essentialsโ as her tagline says. Sheโs promised to post reviews at least once a week for the rest of the summer. Head on over there for her very first โ and tell your kids about it, too!
Thatโs so exciting โ my son, Dash (who is 9), and I have been following the kidsโ recommendations via DALS for ages nowโฆ Iโll send him on over to Nerd Alert (great name โ Iโm always excited to see a fellow nerd girl own it) as soon as heโs home from geeking out at museum day campโฆ
OMIGOSH this is the awesomest! Tell Phoebe sheโll be linked on my Friday Cool Stuff list!
LOVE! I am a 6th grade teacher, and I am making a list of blogs that my students can go on to read reviews and what not. I will add Phoebeโs blog to that list. I have just started my own food blog, so I am hoping to inspire them to write and read about what they love and share that with others through writing.
Congrats to Phoebe! I am sending her blog to my going into 6th grade daughter who read Esperanza Rising in 5th grade. I am hopeful she will embrace her suggestions!
Best news of my week. I love book blogs and I love Phoebeโs taste so this is wonderful news. Phoebe, Iโve bookmarked your site already!
Well, thatโs just the best thing ever!!!
Oh, I love this! Thank you, Phoebe!
Way to go Phoebe!
Great for Phoebe โ thatโs awesome! Canโt wait to check it out.
That is SOOO Cool! Congrats to Phoebe. My 8 year old has recently become a voracious reader (warms my heart), Iโll be sure to show her thisโฆher almost 4 year old brother is sad he canโt read his own book yet! Look forward to more posts!
LOVE it. Have bookmarked it for my kids, who do not so much read as devour books.
Thatโs great. I just ordered Zeus for my son based on her recommendation!
This is great! Nerd alert is suppose to be very entertaining, thanks for sharing
LOVE! I am an educator and encourage kids all the time to start blogs! I also love recommending book review blogs by kids to other kids and parents!
My nine-year-old son is as excited about this as I am about DALS. Kudos to Phoebe.
Congratulations, Phoebe. I will forward the link to Nerd Alert to my daughter.
Congratulations, Phoebe. I will forward the link to Nerd Alert to my daughter.
How cool, a blog created and maintained by a kid. Ill have my kids check it out.
This is an awesome idea. Congrats to Phoebe!
Thanks for sharing, what a brilliant name for that kind of blog! Best greetings and congrats to Phoebe!
Way to go Pheobe! NPR has a great book and comic book reviewer named Glen Weldon. You may want to seek out some of this writing to share with Pheobe.