Back to School Books for Preschoolers
It is getting very close to that time of year when your kiddos head out the door (or in our case, get our books and head downstairs) for the first day of school. Some of you, I’m sure, have a kid...
View Article12 Basic Readers You Probably Have Not Seen
I love old books. Now that I am a bit older and I have some money to call my own, it is just a little hard to resist picking up a handful of old and tattered books from yard sales or other places. I...
View Article11 Books for Children that Tell the Story of Migration
Have you ever taken a moment to stop and watch the Canadian geese fly south in their v-formation? Have you ever noticed the way their honks seem to welcome in the nice cool weather of winter? Did you...
View Article11 Books that Talk about Giving
A cold and lonely man lays stranded along a dirt road. What clothes he had left were all tattered and bloody. Pain is etched on his brow. To a passer by he appeared to have been dead, or in least ways,...
View ArticleA Collection of Oregon Trail Books and Resources
I remember just a few short years ago how much in love I was with the Oregon Trail. I would spend hours a week reading and researching all I could about the Oregon Trail. If I found out something...
View Article20 Picture Books on Spring
I can honestly say that snow and I are not best friends. The first snow is always pretty, laying a blanket of fresh clean snow, but the snow that comes after that…why? I am a Virginia girl. Stuck in...
View Article25 Books for Christmas
Do you ever get that deep desire to start a family countdown to Christmas tradition? I think about what I want to do with my future kids come December 1st and have a super special way to usher in...
View ArticleA List of Winter Books for Children
It is hard to believe that it is already wintertime. When I look outside my bedroom window, I can already see all the bare trees and can imagine the cool, crisp air when I breathe in. To me, reading in...
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