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More Than Mere Memory, Acts of Kindness Continue a Much Needed Ripple Effect in Today’s World.
Tomorrow is the 21st anniversary of the unimaginable events of September 11, 2001 that forever...
Nature Teaches Us to Store Up for the Tough Times. But What Is Essential to Store When Hard Times Come?
The Grasshopper & the Ants By Jerry Pinkney As fall silently and soulfully descends with...
Please Do Plumb the Mysterious Depths of A Child’s Heart With Master Picture Book Author Extraordinaire, Tomi Ungerer, Who Created a Path to Find It in His Storytelling!
Fog Island By Tomi Ungerer With the passing of this outstanding children's picture book author,...
We are Awash in Apples! And Here are Two Perfect Pictures Books to Celebrate Them!
Johnny Appleseed: A Poem by Reeve Lindbergh; paintings by Kathy Jacobsen As the growing season...
Please! Let Us ALLOW This Generation to Experience and Navigate Disappointment and Even Failure. It’s a Part of Life and Sad to Say, They Do Not Have The Ability to Deal With it!
Do children today have the freedom to fail or to experience the consequences that come...
Even Schools Can Be Nervous on the First Day of School!
How to get young ones past their own first week’s jitters of getting back to...
It’s “blooming Christmas” in August with Raymond Briggs and his crotchety “Father Christmas Goes on Holiday.”
Children's author/illustrator Raymond Briggs died this week. His books were well known and loved by...
Do You Remember Some Trepidation at the Beginning of the First Day of School? “Follow the Line To School” is a Reassuring Picture Book for Young Readers…and Parents, Readying for a New School Year!
Follow the Line to School by Laura Ljungkvist Following the two year Covid restrictions for...
How to Talk to Young Readers About Tragedy in the News
Over the last several years, there has been a wave of mindless and merciless tragedies...
“Beat the Drum: Independence Day Has Come” – Poems Selected By Lee Bennett Hopkins; illustrations by Tomie de Paola
In 1977, two of my favorite children's authors came together to do this children's picture...