Guest readers share love of books for Library Week May 17, 2008
Pediatrician David Osler of the Cambridge Health Alliance located kindergartners funny bones when he read Miss Nelson Is Missing and Miss Nelson is Back, and WSNS principal Pauline Lampropoulos shared these two Harry Allard classics with a second group of giggling five- and six-year-olds. Delighting yet another session of beginning readers with Smelly Socks by Robert Munsch and Q is for Duck by Mary Elting was early education supervisor Pamela Holmes. (Somerville Journal, MA)
The banned list Oct 4, 2007
The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard ... Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard. (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
Some tips on books forboys Aug 29, 2007
"The Stupids" by Harry Allard. "Frog and Toad" books by Arnold Lobel. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
First lady, Jenna to write children's book Aug 9, 2007
She says the book is set in a school somewhat like the Miss Nelson series by Harry Allard and James Marshall and is about a funny, mischievous second-grader "who professes not to like books. He says he likes real things. Of course, what everyone who loves books knows is that even a fantastical character can become very real to a reader.". And that, she says, is something the boy learns with the help of his teacher. (USA Today -- Life)