Thanksgiving Books

I looked at my list of favorite Thanksgiving books for kids and realized it was quite short.  I’d love to hear more suggestions!
Here are our favorites:
In November by Cynthia Rylant
Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende and Harry Devlin
Squanto’s Journey by Joseph Bruchac
Over the River and Through the Woods by Lydia Maria Child
Thanksgiving on Thursday (Magic Tree House [...]

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Prehistory Study

As I mentioned here, we’ll be embarking on a study of the prehistoric world after Christmas. I’m making our curriculum myself so I’ve started by putting together a book list.  I’m excited about all the cool titles I’ve written down to investigate and the ones I already know that we’ll love.  We’ve done a lot [...]

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You’re Never Too Old for Picture Books

When I write What We’re Reading This Week posts, I typically talk about chapter books I’m reading to M and picture books I’m reading to C. I realized I may be giving the false impression that I rarely read picture books to M now that we are engrossed in the world of chapter books.  That [...]

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Library Trip, October 8

We went a little crazy at the library this week.  But like I told one of our librarians, it’s nice to have something (books) that I don’t have to say no to.  Unless they were to select a book with inappropriate content, I let them check out as many books as we can carry to [...]

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Favorite Fall and Halloween Books

I’ve been filling up our library queue with books for fall.  These are some of our favorites:
Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell
Pumpkin Hill by Elizabeth Spurr
Excuse Me, Are You a Witch by Emily Horn
Three Little Witches’ Storybook Georgie Adams
The Little Scarecrow Boy by Margaret Wise Brown
Oliver and Amanda’s Halloween by Jean Van Leeuwen
The Witch’s Supermarket by [...]

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Our Study of Ocean Life

Both my girls have been fascinated by sea creatures of various types for quite some time.  Last spring, we started exploring books about the beach and creatures that live in tide pools and near shore in the early spring as we began to fervently look forward to our trip to the beach at the end [...]

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Chapter Book TBR List

I’ve been keeping a list of books I want to eventually share with M whether as a read-aloud or something for her to read on her own once she reaches that stage.  The titles come from my own childhood favorites, reviews, books her friends have enjoyed, and online reading lists like the ones I shared [...]

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My List of Booklists

As I’ve mentioned many times before, I love lists, booklists in particular.  I love to pour over list of other people’s recommendation and add to my ever growing TBR list and the immense list of books I want to share with M and C.
Naturally I was thrilled when I learned via Twitter that Nic Kristof [...]

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Children’s Book Week

This week (May 11-17) is Children’s Book Week so grab a child and a stack of books and read, read, read!
Wild Rose Reader has a great list of links about the week and a wonderful list of booklist.  Oh how a love a list of lists
Just One More Book is celebrating the week [...]

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Favorite Picture Books

Elizabeth Bird from A Fuse #8 Production recently took a poll of readers’ ten favorite picture books, compiled the results and made a Top 100 Picture Books of All Time list which starts here.  Then Pam, Susan, and Jen who write for the new PBS Booklights blog (which you should check out ASAP) made lists [...]

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