There are many reasons why I love children’s books. This week, I was reminded of a big one. Sometimes, a children’s book can remind us of a great truth in the way that nothing else can. We had another week of snow and ice, early dismissals and school closings. Between vacations, snow and sickness, the girls have literally […]
Read moreI love it when we stumble upon a new author. At the very start of this blog, I wrote about our new found love of Amy Krause Rosenthal. It was until this week, that we felt the same surge of new love. I have read Laura Vaccaro Seeger’s books for years but somehow hadn’t put […]
Read moreA few weeks ago, we stumbled upon Lotta Says No!by Pippi Longstocking’s author, Astrid Lindgren. The book tells a charming tale of three siblings and the girls were enchanted. When we finished the story this week, I was anxious to start reading the author’s classic Pippi Longstocking. The original English version of Pippi Longstocking was […]
Read moreI am always on the look out for engaging beginning reader books. And I mean really engaging. When I saw Big Cats, part of the We Read Phonics series, I nearly cried with excitement. Big Cats includes real photographs of lions, tigers and house cats. Below each photograph is one sentence of clearly spaced text containing […]
Read moreA few months ago, I presented a workshop titled, Books as Gifts. The participants were so thrilled to learn about great, newer titles available for children. As in all things in life, I find that parents get in ruts with their book buying. They buy the titles they know or the titles that are face […]
Read moreThere are a few things I can do for hours at a time. These things include reading, browsing in a bookstore or library and finding new websites or blogs on line. I find that my focus here has been on literature but I do also love finding great new resources to use with the early readers in […]
Read moreCaroline and my husband Rob are both avid Yankee fans and take turns quizzing each other on obscure Yankee history or current statistics. And of course, Caroline also loves to quiz me and relish in my relative lack of knowledge. So when I saw a baseball book in my new favorite section of the library, I […]
Read moreThere is so much to say about the intersection between technology and literacy today. I’m actually considering devoting a day a week to this idea but for now I just want to sing the praises of the iPad. I have been using my iPad with a client for the past few weeks. He is a […]
Read moreWe’ve had one of those weeks. Holidays, delayed openings, predictions of more snow and two sick children. I was feeling a bit discouraged this morning before I sat down to read with the girls. I had gone to the library yesterday so we had a full bag of new books. I always get a collection […]
Read moreI am participating (poorly!) in Mother Reader’s Comment Challenge 2011. While I’m not feeling great about my seeming lack of ability to comment on five blogs a day, I am still loving the challenge. I continue to find it really hard to shake my lurker ways but as I break my cybersphere shyness, I am […]
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