Happy Book Birthday To The Spring 2025 Titles From Our Friends At Capstone!

 

Happy Book Birthday to the Spring 2025 titles from our friends at Capstone. I couldn't be more excited to see all of these upcoming titles! 

As Capstone shared on the site, 

Dive into reading some of the books we’re most excited about for spring! Tour Sandy Shorts, an underwater town full of weirdly wonderful and friendly sea creatures in Axolotls!, and learn about cultural and religious holidays and celebrations in the new companion series to the beloved Yasmin stories in Holidays and Celebrations with Yasmin. 

Among our new picture books include two exploring and celebrating beauty—through honoring the Indigenous nations, cultures, and ancestral lands in I Am on Indigenous Land, and showcasing the stunning variation of beauty norms around the world in The Glam World Tour. Take a sneak peek at highlights of Capstone’s Spring 2025 titles before they hit the shelves.

You can get your sneak peek here, friends. 

They also created lots of amazing new downloadables for several of the new books. 

You will find all of these downloadables, and more, here on the Capstone site.  

There are perfect to pair up with these amazing new books in the library, classroom and other subjects like art and STEM. 

Our BOOKHUB & Virtual BOOKHUB For January! Our Monthly Read Aloud & eBook Program Using Books, Capstone Connect & CI eBooks For All Readers!

One of our favorite ways to share special books and celebrate reading is our monthly BOOKHUB Takeout Station. 

Each month, we put together a new group of books that teachers can come pick up to read and share with their students.  You can read all about it, and find the signage I created in Canva, here in this post.

Here is our BOOKHUB Menu for January 2025. You will find the Canva template here.

A few years ago, I thought it would also be found to create a Virtual BOOKHUB each month. 

Capstone Connect is the perfect place to help me create too! 

Capstone Connect is an amazing digital platform from our friends at Capstone that connects PebbleGo, PebbleGo Next, Capstone Interactive eBooks and teachers resources in one place with links to use that connect to each resource.

Let me show you how I put the our December Virtual BOOKHUB choice board.

First, I logged into our Capstone Connect. 

I searched Winter using the Title Search in Capstone Connect. 

When I searched Winter, it gave me the results eBooks, PebbleGo articles and teacher resources.

For the choice board I created, I needed the book cover and link to the eBook.  

To view the eBook, I clicked on All About Animals in Winter and the eBook...

...opened up in Capstone Interactive.  This let me view the eBook and also grab the cover image. 

I then clicked on Copy Link and took it to the choice board. 

I then went back to the You've Been Virtually Book'd For December choice board I created in Google Slides.  I added the screen shot of the book cover, clicked on the image, and added the link I copied to the image. 

When our students and teachers click on the book covers, it will take them straight to the ebooks within Capstone Interactive.  

We don't even have to login because by using Capstone Connect it takes us directly to the eBooks and PebbleGo resources every time.  

We love our You've Been Book'd program and can't wait to celebrate reading in one more way with our students as we share our You've Been Virtually Book'd program every month! 

I made a template for you to create your own You've Been Virtually Book'd For January.  If you have Capstone Interactive eBooks, you can find the link and add them to the book covers I have included in this choice board.

I also created this blank template for January to fill in with your own eBooks and choices for January. 

You will find it here to make a copy, friends. 

Join Me As We Kick Off 2025 With The NEW Follett Content Webinar, Transform Your Library: 15 Ways To Make Reading Irresistible!

 

I am excited to share our new Follett Content webinar to kick off 2025, friends. 

On Thursday, February 12, 2025 join me and my friends at Follett Content for Transform Your Library: 15 Ways To Make Reading Irresistible. 

As shared in the invite....

Make the second half of your school year a reading success with some fantastic new ideas that are sure to light a reading fire under students – even those who are tough to engage! Shannon McClintock Miller has done the heavy lifting to come up with new ways to make your library stand out as the center of fun literacy learning.

Join Shannon and Follett Content as we share 15 ways to make your library known as “the place to be” while enticing students to read, read, and read some more! Teachers and librarians alike will leave this presentation with inspiring ideas that will engage students, promote learning in the library, and bring things to light you may not have previously considered.

Shannon McClintock Miller will share a multitude of concepts, strategies, tips, and resources to promote reading and learning. From book displays to choice boards and Titlewave® nodes and beyond, you’ll learn so much you’ll be able to apply right away.

Register today.

Key Takeaways

• Creative Engagement Techniques: Learn unique and effective methods to captivate students’ interest in reading.
• Library Transformation Ideas: Discover how to turn your library into an inviting and dynamic space that encourages exploration and a love for books.
• Collaborative Literacy Projects: Gain insights into collaborative projects that involve students, teachers, and the community, fostering a supportive reading culture.

You can register for this wonderful new FREE webinar here. 

And don't worry if you can't attend live as everyone who registers will get the recording and resources after the webinar too. 

Hope to see you there, friends.