Making Books come Alive
What does it mean to be BIG? by Coleen Paratore and illustrated by Clare Fennell. BIG goes beyond the basics to show that size is more than a matter of height. Touching on ideas such as health, citizenship, and imagination, this book can be the key to heartfelt dialogue between children and caregivers about the [...]
My Butterfly project sits half-done because I simply cannot wait to tell you more about this book! Have any of you read Lois Lowry’s The Giver? Gathering Blue is it’s companion volume. The Giver took place in this high-tech, distant future world which was absent of emotion. Gathering Blue is set in a village which [...]
We love great ideas and innovation. Especially innovation that encourages families to read and spend slow family time together. That is exactly what I found when I read this article from 2010 on an innovative fellow named Todd Bol and his Little Free Libraries. Here’s an excerpt from The Daily Nightly at MSN News: [...]
It’s FRIDAY! Do you know what that means? Time for another App-y Hour Book Apps for Kids pick. Your Fantastic Elastic Brain from Little Pickle Press introduces children to the anatomy and various functions of the brain in a fun and engaging way. It also delivers the crucial message that mistakes are an essential part [...]
Hello Jump Into A Book Readers! My name is Karen Meacham and my blog is called Little Acorns. I am a PreKindergarten teacher at an independent school in the United States, and a mother of three children, ages 14, 12, and 6. As a teacher and parent I am passionate about outdoor education, time for [...]
If this image doesn’t reach out and capture your imagination, I don’t know what will…. From the moment we picked up this book we embarked on a journey through a magical China with a girl named Minli who was looking to change her families fortune. This Newbery Honor book features magic, adventure, friendship, and even [...]
The boy sat so quietly in the back of the room with a stack of colored paper, his fingers were nearly flying as he folded sheet after sheet of colorful origami paper into fanciful animals. Once he’d folded a zoo’s worth of animals, I watched him play with them, talk to them and give them [...]
The Sea of Trolls is the first volume of a fantasy trilogy by three-time Newbery Honors winning author, Nancy Farmer. Jack was eleven when the Berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. “It seems that things are stirring across the water,” the Bard had warned. “Ships are being built, swords are being forged.” [...]
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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