Chapter Books to Read Aloud With Young Preschoolers (Really!)
There’s something so satisfying, so sophisticated about reading chapter books with my Preschool Bookworm. Like I’m winning at this parenting thing. (I’ll take a chapter-long victory, smattered between tantrums and doubts about my abilities to raise tiny humans.) I see…
Homeschool Preschool: Our Plan
To be honest, I am sitting down to write this post with some butterflies in my stomach. This could easily tread into the territory of “Don’t I know what I’m doing? I’m so put together.” And that is certainly not…
- Age 0-1, Age 1-2, Age 2-3, Age 3-5, Age early elementary, Christian faith based books, Homeschool, Our Literate Life, Sing Me a Story
[Loving These Lately] Lawn Mowers, Spirituals, Homeschooling & Hilarity
It’s been an eclectic group of books that’s been getting the most love in our house lately, as you can tell from this post’s title! This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. McToad…
New Sibling, New Problems: Books for Bumps in the New Sibling Road
My sister once gifted me a pillow inscribed with a quote: “I smile because you’re my sister. I laugh because there’s nothing you can do about it.” For real. We fought like CRAZY at certain periods of our growing up…
- Age 1-2, Age 2-3, Age 3-5, Age 5-8, Age early elementary, Baby Bookworms, Giftable Books, Our Literate Life, Sibling Books
New Baby Books that Don’t Borrow Trouble
When I became a sister, I was the happiest girl on the planet! I had begged my parents for a baby pretty much from the time I could talk, and just before my 4th birthday my wish came true! Fast…
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…
Loving These Lately: Board Books, Picture Books, and Audiobooks, Oh My!
While our library checkouts have been smaller in number lately, their readings have made up for it! We’ve been wearing the bindings on these with repeat readings at all hours of the day! This post contains affiliate links. As…
“In the House” 365 Days: The Blog is ONE!
I got the strangest email recently: “your web hosting account has been auto-renewed.” Oh yeah… because THE BLOG IS ONE YEAR OLD! Oddly, this milestone is passing like my children’s first birthdays: with a vague sense that I should be…
Not Just Brain Food: Our Family’s Real Food Revolution {Cookbooks & Healthy Eating Books}
If you had told me a year ago that I’d be blogging about food, I simply would not have believed it. Laughter would have abounded. I’m not exactly blogging about food here, but a whole lot closer than I figured…
- Age 0-1, Age 1-2, Age 2-3, Age 3-5, Age 5-8, Age early elementary, Our Literate Life, Summer Reading Fun
Our Summer Bucket List, Booked Up
I just LOVE bucket lists! Actually, I love all sorts of lists. I imagine no one is shocked by this fact. (A librarian who loves lists?! How can this be?!) Bucket lists are a special breed. I make them at…
Update: Toddler Bookworm @ 18mo
Somehow the 18 month marker slipped right by me! I think it had something to do with how busy this cutie is: Toddlers get a lot of bad press; while they are challenging, I just adore this stage! He still loses…
Introducing Audiobooks to Toddlers & Preschoolers
Twenty something years later I can still vividly recall listening to the audiobook of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe on a road trip with my parents. The story was so clear in my mind that watching the eventual…
Librarian on the Road: Packing for Literacy with Littles
I don’t travel well. I suffer from a bad case of over packing. Doomsday Preppers meets Type A mom of two. When Preschool Bookworm was a baby, he cried hysterically on every single car trip, short or long, for the…
Update at 3 1/4, Our Threenager Bookworm
We are fully in the “threenager” stage now at age 3.25. Although we breezed through the “terrible twos,” over the last quarter, we have squarely entered a new era. My own reading has been greatly affected as my nightstand full of…
