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It Friday App-y Hour! Appy Hour Book Apps for Kids is a recurring feature where we share great finds in the realm of entertaining and educational book apps for kids. This week I discovered a delightful book from Little Pickle Press and Kite Readers called Ripple’s Effect. Ripple’s Effect by Shawn Achor and Amy [...]
“With all my might, you’ll all take flight… If I could but wish for better things, you’d all disperse and grow your wings. ” Benjamin Brewster, Dandelion This past weekend I received a very special email with a link to a very special book app. The email toted the message “An interactive e-book like you’ve never experienced.” [...]
It’s App-Y Hour! This is our Friday feature that helps locate wonderful and book apps for kids. This week we’d like to share… There’s a Wocket in my Pocket! Isn’t it fun just to say that? This app is not only based on a story from one of our favorite authors (Theodor Seuss Geisel), it [...]
Our friends over at Oceanhouse Media have gone SEUSS CRAZY! In honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday (March 2) this first week of March has been filled with some delightful Seuss book apps and activities. Here’s a few of our favorites “Seuss-related” titles that have been showcased this last week: Dr. Seuss Beginner Book [...]
Middle School: Get Me out of Here! – Free Preview (The First 19 Chapters) [NOOK Book]: Overview James Patterson’s winning follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life–which the LA Times called “a perfectly pitched novel”–is another riotous and heartwarming story about living large. After sixth [...]
What Does It Mean to Be Green from Little Pickle Press This colorful, insightful story, demystifies for children what it means to be green by helping them to view everyday tasks through an environmentally-friendly lens. The book empowers children to do whatever they can to protect the earth’s precious resources. Don’t be surprised if they [...]
During the last presidential election there was a lot of discussion about political parties. How are they different ? How are they the same? Who, exactly would make the better leader of our country ? Here is an entertaining book which helps answer these questions. Using the cat and dog in a brilliant analogy of [...]
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 Pick of the Week. .Jump Into A Book has been coming across many, many delightful children’s book apps and e-books lately so we’d like to [...]
Time for App-y Hour! App-y Hour is our weekly pick for fun and education book apps for kids. It also means the weekend is here and time for some Saturday /Sunday R&R (readin and restin). Jump Into A Book has been coming across many, many delightful children’s book apps lately so we’d like to start [...]
It’s FRIDAY! Know what that means? Time for us to share another App-Y Hour Book Apps for Kids! This week we’d like to share a delightful book app called Silly Dino. Children’s author Seymour Simon has been called “the dean of the [children's science book] field” by the New York Times. In Silly Dino, [...]
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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