Making Books come Alive
Happy Mother’s Day! I hope this day finds you surround by love, family, and relaxation. As usual, during my weekly on-line travels, I have happened upon some great, fun, and inspiring stories from fellow bloggers. So in honor of Mother’s Day, here’s some of my top picks: The Magic Craft Box is a seasonal delivery [...]
I don’t know where you live, but where I live Spring came very late this year and it is still cold and rainy. We’re ready to see the sun. I know many of our friends in the Midwest United States feel the same way. What if we could bake bread in the shape of the [...]
Happy Easter Happy Spring Happy Passover …….from all of us at Jump Into a Book!
February is Family Book Festival month!!! Family Book Festival is a project to help chase away the doldrums of winter by jumping into the favorite books of our author, illustrator, blogger friends. It’s our hope that, not only will we provide reading families with amazing new booklists and activities, but also give the parents a [...]
A Monkey King, A Snow Girl, Forts, and a special day of Book Giving! Wow! What a busy week! Our February Family Book Festival is in full swing and readers are loving reading about our fellow writers, bloggers and parents as they share their favorite childhood book with matching activity. This is quick [...]
Happy February! February is such a busy month for a variety of reasons. We have Valentines Day, Lincoln’s birthday, and also President’s day. But in the literary world, there’s several very important days we look forward to. ALA- Caldecott, Newbery, and Coretta Scott King awards are right up there with Christmas for me. (photo credit [...]
Can you believe that we are already at the end of the second week in January 2013? I’m happy to say it’s been a good one. The first thing I have to share with you is this great poster of Peter Pan by My Modern Metropolis. Taking the entire text of Peter Pan and designed [...]
Back To The Stacks is a fun look back at past JIAB posts The Little Fir Tree by Margaret Wise Brown is a heart grabber. The book has the most beautiful paintings which really remind me of my sweet boy “O”. Jim Lamarche, the illustrator, has contributed to the magic of this great story. They [...]
Merry Christmas from all of us at Jump Into a Book. May your season be bright.
It’s App-Y Hour! This is our Friday feature that helps locate wonderful and FREE ebooks for kids. In honor of the upcoming Christmas holiday, we found this delightful book called Christmas Gift for Everyone by author Bee Faith. From Amazon: ‘I wish it was always Christmas!’ said the children. It was as if some secret [...]
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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