making space for creativity
Pulling out our bin (alright, several bins!) of Christmas books is one of the best parts of December in our house. Here are 45 of our tried and true favorites! I put an asterisk* next to books that mention Santa. For ideas of how to gift these books, check out my post: Books & Books…
I do two main types of children’s book reading. I read to my own two children, currently ages 7 and 10. And I read to a whole classes of children, ages 3 to 11. They can be fairly different experiences. For this post, I’ll call the first one “lap-read alouds” and the second “library-time read-alouds.”…
Our daughter Lily loves fairy tales. Shiny new Disney ones or grizzly Grimm Brother originals, she loves them all. When she was three, she would laugh and laugh at the fox gobbling up the gingerbread boy or the largest Billy Goat Gruff ramming the troll into the water. This was in sharp contrast to our…
Learning to read is a wild and wonderful, frustrating and fantastic adventure for you and your child! Watching my children learn to read truly has been one of the most rewarding (and demanding!) parts of motherhood. So this year, instead of putting together the list of Lily’s favorite picture books that I would read to…
This is my 10th year of doing birthday book posts! (You can see the past years here: 30 // 31 // 32 // 33 // 34 // 35 // 36 // 37 // 38 // 39). I have found that between listening to more podcasts and trying to list more books (40 is in fact 25% more than 30!) It was…
Five is such a great age for reading books! They are young enough to enjoy great short and sweet toddler books (perhaps even being able to read them for themselves!), but they also have attention spans big enough to sit through more complex books. In some ways this love of a wide range of books…