Welcome to the Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge that Alyson Beecher hosts at Kid Lit Frenzy each Wednesday. Visit Alyson for the link-up to lots more posts about nonfiction picture books. I am giddy, because my daughter Maddie comes in from Scotland today for three whole weeks! Wheeeeeeee! OK, down to business:>) This week I’m being […]
Fantastic Flowers: Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge
Welcome to the Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge that Alyson Beecher hosts at Kid Lit Frenzy each Wednesday. Visit Alyson for the link-up to lots more posts about nonfiction picture books. I saw SO many beautiful nonfiction picture books last week at NCTE. My brain is bursting (and so is my tbr shelf). I picked up […]
Plants Can’t Sit Still [Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge]
Welcome to the Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge that Alyson Beecher hosts at Kid Lit Frenzy each Wednesday. Visit Alyson for the link-up to lots more posts about nonfiction picture books. A nonfiction picture book I read this week and loved was Rebecca E. Hirsch’s Plants Can’t Sit Still (Lerner/Millbrook, 2016), illustrated by Mia Posada. […]
Vocabudipity! Chance Encounters with New Words [Slice of Life Tuesday]
I’m not sure if I’m doing this right, because I’ve never participated in SOL. But I’ve seen lovely stories on many blogs and thought I’d give it a try. I love words! One of my favorite things about words is when I come across a word I’ve never seen before, and then I come across […]
Whose Hands Are These? [Nonfiction Picture Book Monday]
I’ve been largely off the grid for the summer and am getting back to things now–like reading picture books, blogging, etc.! Happy to start joining back in on some Mondays with the Nonfiction Picture Book Challenge that Alyson Beecher hosts at Kid Lit Frenzy. [Addendum: Oops, that’s how long I’ve been off the grid. It’s […]
The Little Free Library Redux
One thing I was sad to lose in our recent move was our Little Free Library. That’s it before it was installed in our old front yard. Well, good news! The Homeowners’ Association at our townhouse has approved a Little Free Library! Once they tell us where we can install it, we’ll be figuring out […]
Happy Birthday, RIF!
I have such good memories of RIF at my elementary school in Florida. The idea that strangers would come and wheel a cart into each classroom and everybody got to choose TWO books to KEEP…magic. Today is RIF’s 50th birthday, and there will be a celebration live-streaming this morning. There will be celebrity guests, including […]
Thankful for… Laughter
I was talking to my parents on the phone, and even while discussing another doctor’s appointment (they have so many every week), my dad and I found things to laugh about. When they were calling him from the waiting room, he couldn’t find the door people were disappearing into, which was tucked around the corner. […]
Read, Love, Forget
Last week, I read, actually listened to, All the Broken Pieces, by Ann Burg. What a powerful novel in verse about Matt, a Vietnamese boy adopted by an American family. His struggles are as big as the Vietnam War and as small as the bully on his baseball team. I cared about Matt. I teared […]
A Giveaway of Heather Montgomery’s How Rude!
Back in September, I shared Heather Montgomery’s wonderful book about bug bad behavior, How Rude! (Scholastic, 2015). Remember that? Anyway, the giveaway of Nancy Bo Flood’s lovely water book was a big success, and not too hard to do, so I’m giving away my signed paperback copy of Heather’s fabulous picture book. Interested? Go back […]
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