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Most Loved in All the World: A Sweet Children’s Book Oh mama, I think this is the sweetest book in the whole world. That’s what Mary Polly said after she read Most Loved in All the World by Tonya Cherie Hegamin. I brought it home from the library last week, and after she read it, …
We are about 10 pages from finishing our current read-aloud at the Chino House. Here’s what I love about being at this point in a book with my kids. When they get home from school tomorrow I could ask them if they would rather finish Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry or watch TV and …
My favorite valentine is a book of course. And because the outpouring of sweets is abundant at school, I give my kiddos books for valentine’s as well. This year Cole is getting Inkheart, Mary Polly a new Ivy and Bean, Ben a new My Weird School and Simon a new Mr. Putter. In case you …
My aunt gave my children the Jesus Storybook BIble for Christmas and it is my new favorite Bible for children. The illustrations by Jago are the best I’ve ever seen in a children’s Bible, but beyond that, the whole book is tied together by this idea on the front cover, that every story whispers his name. …
Ida B…and her plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World. by Katharine Hannigan Last night we finished this little gem of a book, and though I’ve mentioned it several times, I thought it deserved its very own post. The power of a treasure like Ida B is that reading a couple …
So, Taido’s been reading aloud at night for the last couple weeks instead of me. At first I wasn’t really sure why, but I thought that it might have something to do with the fact that I started a book of King Arthur Stories after the boys began to lose interest in Anne on like book number …
One of the many great joys of reading The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket is the cleverly disguised vocabulary lessons throughout the entire series. The oft repeated phrase, a word which here means, followed by a definition of the word just used, introduces a word or phrase that might be unfamiliar to the …
A Story about Reading Children’s Christmas Books Thursday night after yoga I went to a bookstore and sat in the children’s section for a long time with a pile of newly published Christmas books for children. I do this every year. Well, every year since I worked in a bookstore in Deerfield, Illinois while Taido …