Month: August 2021
Try Navigating the Start of A New School Year With a Read Aloud Picture Book for Pure Pleasure!
Welcome in the New Year this September with reading. Someone recently mentioned to me that...
What Happens If A.A. Milne’s Christopher Robin Lost His Way As An Adult? Could Pooh Help Him Regain His Way Back?
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear By Lindsay Mattick; illustrated...
The Dream Never Dies When it Has Passion and Purpose. We Honor Dr. Martin Luther King for One Particular Day That Illuminated the “content of character” in His Life…And Modeled it for a Generation.
What Was the March on Washington? By Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Tim Tomkinson In order...
Way Back Wednesday: The Canon of Picture Books
Walking Down Classic Corridors with the Caldecott Merriam-Webster defines the word “canon” as “a sanctioned...
Celebrate Canines! It’s National Dog Day and Here is a Glorious Book That Does It Sublimely and with Heart!
For those of my readers who are dog lovers, it is a day to celebrate...
Way Back Wednesday Essential Classic
The Big Snow By Berta and Elmer Hader By all accounts, this past winter we...
This School Year, Let it Be the Year of the Perfect Effort!
Partnering for Potential; not Perfection With the flip of a calendar page, another school year...
May 8, 2021 was the 76th Anniversary of VE Day or Victory in Europe Day Ending WWII…at Least On That Front. And today, August 15, 2021 is VJ Day or Victory in Japan Day Marking 76 Years Since Imperial Japan Surrendered to the Allies.
May 8, 2021 was the 76th Anniversary of what came to be known as VE...
The Beauty Of Picture Books, Books in General and the Arts Are a Comfort During Turbulent Times. Even a Mouse Named Frederick Knows That!
No one need tell us that these are turbulent times. The pandemic, with its accompanying...