Last week we took a tip to Barnes & Noble to check out if they had any books to help teach us how to take better care of our earth. We came home with three favorites and I highly recommend each one! Help Your Parents Save the Planet by Play Bac “This is the first […]
Babar was one of my favorite book series and cartoon growing up. I have tried to get my girls into Babar but they really seem to love Ella the Elephant so much more. I love Ella too! Her character is kind, obedient, a good friend, elegant, helpful, just an all around sweet-heart. The Ella the […]
I saved the best for last in my Top Valentine Book List! If You’ll Be My Valentine by Cynthia Rylant, Illustrated by Fumi Kosaka The little boy makes a Valentine for everyone special in his life, from his dog to his baby sister. He always starts with, “If you’ll be my Valentine…” and tells them […]
What Valentine’s Day or children’s books about love are your favorite? I know it might seem silly to include a Clifford book in my list but that is the book I remember while growing up reading for Valentine’s Day. 🙂 Day it Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond might be one you are unfamiliar with, it tells […]
Have you read Margaret Wise Brown’s latest book release, The Moon Shines Down? It is getting very mixed reviews. It was a manuscript discovered in an old trunk in a barn in Vermont and is now being published 56 years after the author’s death. I see the Moon and the Moon sees me As it sees […]
I pack all of our Christmas-time books along with our decorations, that way every year they seem new. I would love to hear what unique books are in your holiday collection, I feel that my list is lacking a little. I will only give summaries for the less known titles. If You Take a Mouse […]
This past week we hit the jackpot once again at the library in our selection of books. Be sure to check out if your library carries these titles: Amazon.com Widgets  Inside All (Sharing Nature with Children Book) by Margaret H. Mason and Holly Welch is a beautiful book, the writing, message and illustrations. It […]
  Nouns and Verbs Have a Field Day by Robin Pulver and Lynn Rowe Reed will introduce your child to grammar in a very playful way. This is a book I have checked out from the library but need to buy to have at home, this one is a keeper!  Punctuation Takes a Vacation […]
For the giveaway click here. I turned one of my favorite stories growing up into a felt board story. My girls ask every single morning for the “Chocolate Chip Ghost Story!” So without further adieu… Once upon a time, there lived 6 little ghosts and a Mama ghost. As everyone knows, ghosts are white and to stay white. […]
“That will be so great when she is older.” “I bet she will love that in a few years.” “I cannot wait until she is old enough to that kind of stuff.” I got sick of hearing and saying that stuff with my oldest daughter and threw those rules out of the window. I try […]
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