Educating Esme: Diary of a Teacher's First Year is my new best book of the summer. It's a diary of Esme Raji Codell's first year as a public school teacher (fifth grade) in Chicago. It is hilarious, sweet, sad, inspiring, disheartening, uplifting, and deeply insightful.

Esme's got a great web site at Planet Esme - A Wwwonderful World of Children's Literature. This woman needs a blog!

Esme Codell has a new fan - me.

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