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Introduce Your Young Reader To the Ancient Traditions of the Jewish Faith and Its Day of Atonement….Something Our Culture Hungers to Learn in a Mean Culture.
Celebrate: A Book of Jewish Holidays By Judith Gross, illustrated by Bari Weissman The two most...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“Amos and Boris” by William Steig; a Whale of a Tale About an Unlikely Seagoing Friendship Between a Mammal of Size and a Mote of a Mouse! Celebrate International Friendship Today with a Classic Picture Book Read!
William Steig, a renowned and celebrated illustrator for "The New Yorker," during his lifetime, and...
Summer is the Perfect Time for the Picture Book “Essentials”
I am an inveterate TCM lover; that would be the Turner Classic Movie station. In...
“How Martha Saved Her Parents from Green Beans” by David LaRochelle; art by Mark Fearing
What is young Martha to do when her distaste for green beans results in a...