As both a preschool teacher and a parent, I’m a big fan of alphabet books. Presenting letters within the context of a unifying theme works well in the process of introducing young children to the building blocks of our written language. Sleeping Bear Press is well known for its huge line of themed alphabet books,…
Category Archives: ages 6 – 9
Symphony City
Picture books manage to convey stories to children often using very few words. To do this successfully, the pictures themselves become a visual narrator of sorts, perfect for their audience of young pre-readers, or children first learning to read independently. Amy Martin’s new oversized picture book, Symphony City, undoubtedly fulfills this mission. In fact, the…
Where’s Waldo
A few years ago my mom was cleaning out her house and handed me a box of books from my childhood. Martin Handford’s Where’s Waldo? was among them and my older son immediately confiscated it. He spent many nights poring over the book trying to find Waldo. Even after finding Waldo he would continue scrutinizing…
My Weirder School series by Dan Gutman
First there was My Weird School where we met A.J. and his 2nd grade class, then My Weird School Daze which brought them to 3rd grade, and now A.J. and the gang are still in 3rd grade in the first two books in the My Weirder School series My daughter read some of these books…
The Mystery of the Blue Ring (Polk Street Mysteries by Patricia Reilly Giff)
Raise your hand if you ever spent a Free Range Saturday when you were growing up trying to solve a mystery that you conjured up? Yeah, me too. Unlike the kids in the books I liked to read, there were never any real mysteries to solve. The Mystery of the Blue Ring is the first…
Disney’s Winnie the Pooh: Books on Screen
5 Minutes for Mom contributing writer, Christie O. (Average Moms Wear Capes) had the opportunity to see an early screening of the new Winnie-the-Pooh movie, as well as actually becoming Piglet on screen! I’m linking to her review here, because I know that some of you are eagerly awaiting this new release: Yes, believe it…
Squish
Graphic novels are fun to read and re-read. My 2nd grade son proved this by reading this book, then reading it again the same day, and continuing to read it day after day after day. I was happy that he was reading instead of doing other things, but I finally had to hide the book…
Guinea Dog
Guinea Dog by Patrick Jennings was a Cybils Middle Grade fiction nominee, but I never got to it. The theme of pets was fairly common in our cache of nominees, because it’s a pretty common theme among middle grade students. They all want a pet, and they often don’t get what they want. In Guinea…
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