Looking for a little reading fun with your little ones? Grab one of these seriously adorable books, pile together on your couch, and I promise you the smiles will be anything but little. Okay, perhaps you can sense a theme here with my little share of repetition. Aside from the similarities in the titles of…
Category Archives: Children’s Books
If You Give a Dog a Donut
If You Give a Dog a Donut is the latest from the fabulous duo Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond. How did I miss this? They are true modern classics. I shared them with my daughter, now 13, and a couple of years ago, my now 7-year-old son ran right to the NUM section of the…
The Sounds of Night Book App
Jennifer here — I’d like to welcome our newest reviewer, Trish. When we decided we needed to add a reviewer, I thought of her, because of her longtime participation on our site — as an frequent commenter and involvement in our monthly community link-ups. In addition, her wide reading preferences, from mysteries to Christian fiction,…
Holiday Picture Books, and Giveaway Link
The holidays are fast approaching, and about this time every year, I love to pull our always-growing collection of winter and holiday-themed books off the shelf in my daughter’s room. For the next month or so, they will inhabit various baskets in our living room, always at the ready for a reading by the fire…
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever
My son started asking to read the Wimpy kid books in second grade, but I had him wait until third grade for various reasons. The books are in pretty high demand at his school but he managed to read all of them in the first few months of school. Scholastic sent me a copy of…
Stand-Out Cybils Nominated Picture Books, #8
For this week’s round-up of Cybils-nominated books, I’ve chosen three titles that have interested my children and me because of their focus on nature, animals and a unique way of thinking about living versus non-living things. Like many picture books, these are suitable for a range of ages from preschool through early elementary school children….
Bloodlines: A Time for War
Seeing “blood” and “war” in the title of a book immediately makes me think that it’s not the sort of book I’d want to read. But in this case, “Bloodlines” refers to the series that look at the different military careers of one particular fictitious family. A Time for War tells the story of PFC…
Cybils Middle Grade Fiction: Family Stories
These Cybils Middle Grade Fiction nominees all deal with families. These families might look like your own, or they might be quite different, but the dynamic plays out in a critical way to the plot of these novels, which are each different in tone as well. Calli Be Gold by Michele Weber Hurwitz I have…
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