Making Books come Alive
When my girls were little we use to watch this movie called Kristen’s Fairy House. Oh how they would watch this and then go up into our own garden and create a fairy garden just like Kristen. Kristen’s Fairy House is now on DVD and it can be found on Amazon. Here’s a quick [...]
It’s 5 o’clock somewhere! It also means the weekend is here and time for some Saturday /Sunday R&R (readin and restin)..AND..it’s time for our App-y Hour Book Apps for Kids! Jump Into A Book has been coming across many, many delightful children’s book apps and e-books lately so we’d like to start sharing those with [...]
This time of year brings out the travel and adventure bug in me Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright, is a delightful, beautifully written story, and one of those books that stirs my desire to explore. Summer has a magic all its own in Elizabeth Enright’s beloved stories about two children and their discovery of a ghostly [...]
Happy Beginning-of-The-Week my friends! And what a busy week it will be.Running here, crafting there, and meetings, meetings, meetings (good meetings though). I feel like a giddy schoolgirl with a secret to share…so I will! All of us at Jump Into A Book and Audrey Press are beyond excited to share the fact that our [...]
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The Wanderlust side of me has always wanted to go to Maine. Why? Because in Maine the sites and scenery is plentiful and when combined with the endless outdoors activities like hiking, arts & crafts, gardening, fairy houses and building them, I imagine it would be a spectacular vacation. Though all of these are reasons [...]
I love Stuart’s Dad the best. His vocabulary was hilarious and made reading Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms so fun!” —Emily B., age 11 Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms by Lissa Evans is known around the hallowed halls of Jump into a Book as “The grocery store book.” No kidding ! I was grocery shopping at my local [...]
Once upon a time…. Two young mothers envision a magical world where everyone went barefoot…. Explore. Imagine. Create. Connect. Give Back. That’s the Barefoot Books mindset and what they are all about. “It’s exploring other cultures, our planet, ourselves. It’s making time for make-believe and letting imaginations run wild and free. Most of all, [...]
Happy week of The 4th of July! The 4th of July is more than parades, picnics, and fireworks-it’s also a chance to share the pride of our nation’s history. With that in mind, Jump Into a Book has “marched forth” and gathered up some picks great patriotic books for kids. If you have some family [...]
Valarie is author of the book The Fox Diaries: The year the foxes came to our garden, a mom, writer, crafter and photographer.
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