This year’s Children’s Book Week is less than 50 days away. Mark your calendar for the week of May 2 – 8 when the official Children’s Book Week takes place. Events are held around the country at local bookstores but you can host your own celebration, at home or at school, if you can’t make [...]
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26 Sep
Banned Books Week
I grew up in the library. I don’t remember how often we went, but I can still picture the white shelves, the children’s area and the YA section that I eventually “grew into.” All of the adventures I was able to experience by simply picking up a book helped create who I am today: curious, [...]
9 Sep
Children’s Book Review: Chicken Big
Chicken Big, the latest picture book by Keith Graves, arrived at our house yesterday and it was a huge hit. My son was super excited to take a bath since I promised him we’d read the book as soon as he was done. It was the quickest bath in our history of bath-taking… He grabbed [...]
27 Aug
Silent but Deadly
My son’s summer reading list came in early July. He wasn’t remotely interested in any of the books on the list. They had pictures and words that he could read on his own, and yet I still couldn’t convince him to read any of them with me. Believe me, I tried. He’s stubborn but he [...]
24 Nov
Thank goodness for that!
Books of all different shapes and sizes spill from my son’s shelves and luckily he’s grown to be as much of a bookworm as I was at his age. From time to time, something happens or someone says something that causes one or both of us to say, “That reminds me of that one book…” [...]
15 Dec
Wanted: Male Models
Gail Giles is a young adult author who recently wrote an article in School Library Journal that touched on a topic close to home. As a single mom of a young boy, I really work at trying to get my son involved in reading, sports and anything else that interests him (dinosaurs, cars, action figures). [...]
22 Aug
Bloggers Unite
I continue to discover more blogs written by Moms and Dads. There are so many great writers that I now read on a regular basis that I am finding less and less time to write. It’s a good thing that reading helps inspire me, because I’m often compelled to respond to a post I come [...]
18 Aug
Proud Mama
Michael Phelps has made history with his 8 Gold Medals and a World Record. One medal after the other… What’s amazing to me is the fact that, not only was Michael diagnosed with ADHD as a child, but he was also raised (along with his two sisters) by a single mom. This isn’t unusual, really. [...]
20 Jun
Y Not?
Printed on recycled paper and taking 10% of everything you spend to go toward changing the world, The Y Catalog is definitely a company and catalog that I encourage you to check out. Here is a list of the organizations that receive a percentage of the proceeds: CAREThe 11th Hour ActionThe Fisher House FoundationThe Mukti [...]
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