BookReport Guide Blog

Here is where you can get the latest information on what's happening and participate in a community conversation around books, children, and helping your child to succeed with book reports...we will announce upcoming and new Guide releases, provide tips for book report help, answer questions you may have, and much more.


Staying In Touch, 2 Ways

I continue to upgrade the site. Briefly, two new actions are available to you so we can stay connected and in touch. You can subscribe to the BookReport Guides RSS feed through your favorite reader to easily get each blog post. And you can follow @bookreportguide on Twitter for short alerts and easy conversations about authors and books for children, helping kids, book reports, literacy and more. You can find the buttons to the right of this post. The RSS subscription is the big orange square button and the Twitter button is the bright blue one with the "t" on it.

More updates will be coming soon, including a new BookReport Guide and two more ways we can stay in touch! I mentioned this in the last post, but seriously...if you notice there's something you would like to be able to do or see on this website, please don't hesitate to tell us!

I'm looking forward to hearing what your kids are reading and doing on Twitter and sharing through the RSS feed. Take care!

If you are just joining us, please take a look around the website and make yourself comfortable. Feel free to email us if you find any difficulties, have any comments on a blog post, or just to say hi!


Filed Under: News

Feedback on Our New Website

So people, okay, mostly friends and family, have been coming by these past couple of weeks and sharing their thoughts about the new BookReport Guides website.

Overwhelmingly the feedback has been very complimentary. People have shared they find it easy to navigate around as well as to find the Guides and all the available information. This is something we are really happy about as easy usability was our number one priority.

But if any of you visiting now find anything is hard to do, please let us know so we can fix it!

In addition, people have shared that they like the clean look and style of the website as well as the overall tone of the site content. All of which we are pleased to know too, since we thought long and hard about both and while we felt good about our choices...it's very nice to hear that it's going over well with all of you!

We are also happy to say we've had our first couple of sales and the purchasing and downloading system has worked without a hitch. This is GREAT news when you are in Beta mode like we are and trying to make sure everything works well.

Most importantly, we appreciate the sales and our new customers! We hope the Guides serve them well!

Over the next few days, there'll be some additions to the website:

  • RSS feed for those of you who would like to keep up on BookReport Guides Blog posts within your reader
  • Add This capability so you can easily share our Guide pages and information with your friends and family
  • Newsletter Sign-up for those of you who would like to receive our monthly newsletter about new releases and helping your child with book reports, reading, and writing
  • And, happily, a new BookReport Guide release!

If you notice there's something you would like to be able to do or see on this website, please don't hesitate to tell us! In the meantime, thanks for all of your good cheer and encouragement these first few days!

If you are just joining us, please take a look around the website and make yourself comfortable. Feel free to email us if you find any difficulties, have any comments for a blog post, or just to say hi!


Filed Under: Feedback

Beta Launch of BookReport Guides

We're pretty excited about this blog posting. Today BookReport Guides launches a new website for parents who need an effective method to help their child or children with book reports and other reading response assignments. With the website in beta mode, the first four BookReport Guide titles are...

Essentially we provide awesome cheat sheets for parents to help take the stress out of book reports for everyone!

The idea is that the child has read the book and could use some help turning their reading experience into a written assignment. But the parent doesn't have the time, or perhaps the interest, in reading the book too.

So a parent can visit www.bookreportguides.com and find their child's book title, select and purchase the accompanying BookReport Guide for five dollars and get an instant download link to a 3 to 7 page pdf document of story- and assignment-specific questions to ask their child.

And, voila, the parent is an "instant expert" as if she (or he) has spent hours reading the book and analyzing it for targeted questions perfectly designed to help their child write an effective book report.

BookReport Guides was founded by Marisa Miller, a veteran educator and curriculum developer for public and charter schools as well as non-profit organizations, and a small team of dedicated contractors committed to helping busy parents, and other adults, help children to become better readers and writers.

So take a look around the website and make yourself comfortable. Feel free to email us if you find any difficulties or just to say hi!


Filed Under: News