This book arrived in my mailbox by surprise and at first I looked at it with some suspicion. After all, the cover art was kind of curious. However, once I glanced at the whole title – Books Make Me Happy: My First Reading Log – I was eager to crack open this book and find…
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Start Here
If you haven’t heard of Alex & Brett Harris, you might be familiar with their older brother – Josh Harris of the I Kissed Dating Goodbye fame. (These days it’s more of a Dug Down Deep fame.) I read Josh’s first book when I was a teen and committed to kissing dating goodbye early on….
Tales of Young Americans Series
Sleeping Bear Press does a lot of things – including American History! I reviewed Lily’s Victory Garden over at Reading to Know which is a part of Sleeping Bear Press‘s Tales of Young Americans series. I was excited to be given the opportunity to check out some additional titles from the series. These books are…
We Were Here First: Baby Blues
I’m seriously getting into comic strips again these days. I never would have suspected, since I’ve seldom paid attention to comics since I was, oh, say about 14. But lately they’ve held some appeal for a quick laugh or chuckle and “Ah HA!” moments. That said, I just finished devouring We Were Here First: Baby…
Look Inside the Human Body
One of my favorite children’s book publishers, in terms of offering fun science reads, is Silver Dolphin Books. I’ve highlighted some of their books in the past and I’m back again today to introduce you to Look Inside: The Human Body. I’m no less impressed by this one than by another of their other titles….
Activity Books for Kids
It’s getting close to the time when mothers and fathers everywhere are trying to locate resources and activities to have on hand for summer doldrums or as distractions during road trips. To that end, I’d like to point out a couple of things as a suggestion, both offered by Peter Pauper Press. Brainiac’s Road Trip…
My Quotable Kid
One of the things I am most thankful that my mother-in-law did in recording my husband’s childhood was recording all of the funny things he said when he was younger. All of my in-law siblings have these amazing scrapbooks full of their own quotes and whenever we look through them we spend time laughing and…
Children’s Classics Mystery Challenge – May
This is the next-to-last month for the Children’s Classics Mystery Challenge. From January through June, we purposefully set out to re-read some of our favorite children’s detectives. It’s been a fun journey, checking back into the worlds of Cherry Ames, The Dana Girls, Nancy Drew – 1939 ed., and Trixie Belden. There was one mystery-lovin’…
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