Meaningful Messages
Picture Book Tour: A to Z Don’t Miss These {“C” Authors}
Despite the lag time since I published my “B” list, I have just a handful of “C” authors to recommend. I’ll let you practice your powers of inference along with assurance that we haven’t neglected reading the last many weeks……
Christmas Books with Meat on the Bones
To balance out my Christmas Books for a Two Minute Attention Span, I present to you Christmas Books with Meat on the Bones! These books have plenty of fodder for conversation about the many themes that Christmas stories lend themselves…
Books About Strong Girls that I Read With My Sons
There’s a lot of testosterone in my home, but that doesn’t keep us from reading about strong girls. The books below feature female protagonists who demonstrate courage, intellect, perseverance, wit, and strength! My Preschool Bookworm loves each of these heroines…
Eat These Up! Picture Books for Picky Eaters
As I write this, we are about six weeks into our family’s real food revolution. I’ve taken to heart the advice I’ve read over & over to quit as short order cook, and I’ve stopped buying the packaged snack foods…
- Age 0-1, Age 1-2, Age 2-3, Age 3-5, Age 5-8, Age early elementary, Birthday Bookworms, Construction and Vehicle Books, Loving These Lately, Meaningful Messages, Rhyming Books, Sharing
Loving These Lately: Gems from Our Recent Library Visits
Baby Bookworm’s recent disdain for his stroller and penchant for “unshelving” books wherever he sees them has caused our family book browsing at the library to be a bit condensed lately! (Someday I’ll miss these days, they tell me.) We have,…
- Activities, Age 2-3, Age 3-5, Age 5-8, Age early elementary, Meaningful Messages, Rhyming Books, Throwback Thursday
Horton Hatches the Egg: Throwback Thursday Grand Finale!
A few years ago I read Horton Hatches the Egg aloud twenty five times within five days. It was the springboard book for my school-wide author study*, so I read it to ALL of my classes from kindergarten up through…
Redeeming a Bad Day: Five Books to Turn Around One of “Those” Days
Friday was one of “those” days for me. It involved a lost shoe, a band aid, cupcakes, and poop (we’re potty training, but don’t “those” days always involve poop?!). If I tried to explain it, you’d probably nod your head sympathetically but…
Leo & the Late Blooming Pep Talk #tbt
I’m not sure if this story is more encouraging to Mama Bookworm or to my little bookworms. We are in week one of potty learning in our house, and this book has been a balm to my worried mind: “Then…
Books That Aren’t About the Holidays But Kinda Really Are
Rather than adding to the world another list of recommended Christmas books, I thought I’d share with you some great titles that totally tie in to the holiday season but won’t date themselves on your bookshelf once the festivities have all…
Away in a Manger: Christmas Books about Jesus
This post is coming much later into December than I had planned. Turns out it has been quite a task to find excellent Christmas books that are about Jesus. Hmm. I’ve been reading through stacks of offerings- my poor Bookworms,…
Taking Mental Snapshots Aboard The Polar Express
Ever have one of those moments you just wish you could have captured in a photo, but had to settle for a mental snapshot? I’ve been having many of those lately. Recently we went to a Christmas light display after…
More, More, More: The One Book Baby Bookworm Can Request by Name
It’s tough being a rule follower who feels hemmed in by rules of her own making! I’m bending my own parameters for throwbacks this week due to Baby Bookworm’s delight of this 25-year old book. I think that’s sufficiently old enough…
Grateful for These: Our Favorite Thanksgiving Books (That Aren’t About Turkeys)
I’ve shared before that I’m not typically a big fan of holiday books. I am, however, a big fan of Thanksgiving as a holiday so I went on a hunt to find the best books for kids relating to gratitude…
The Story of Ferdinand: Preschool Bookworm’s First Banned Book #tbt
I didn’t expect I would be selecting banned books for my 2 year old… but this week’s feature from 1936 was labeled pro-fascist and pro-communist in its day, and was banned in several countries at the time. Fast forward 79…
Koala Lou: I DO Love You! #tbt
This week’s feature is a title that I discovered many years before having my own baby bookworms, and I remember longing for the day I could read it to my one-day children. The experience is as sweet in reality as…
