What Would you Trade YOUR Peanut-Butter Sandwich for ?

The Ultimate Fluffernutter marmalade sandwich

During the Family Book Festival, author/illustrator Chris Robertson stopped by to chat about the great fun world of reading he’s created with his books. One of our favorite Chris Robertson books is I’ll Trade my Peanut-Butter Sandwich. The main character in this book is very clever as he’ll trade his peanut-butter sandwich for just about [...]

Appy Hour: Cat or Dog For President

Cat and Dog For President

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 [...]

Beatrix Potter: A Magical Visit To Remember (Guest Post from Karen Meacham)

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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 [...]

The World of Mary Poppins

What would you think if I told you that the author Pamela Lyndon Travers  or PLT, as she was referred to, modeled many of the characters of her book, Mary Poppins after her family? Can you imagine meeting somebody like Mary Poppins? If you were to ask her, the author, that is, she would just tell you that she [...]