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6 Picture Books to Celebrate National Tailgating Day
Today I’m sharing 6 Picture Books to Celebrate National Tailgating Day! National Tailgating Day is the first Saturday in September (who knew!). And regardless of my own personal opinions on professional sport, player salaries, and my major concern about the health of athletes I wanted to share some books for…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Enjoyed That Are Outside of My Comfort Zone
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Enjoyed That Are Outside of My Comfort Zone was another difficult list as I tend to enjoy most things I read and have a pretty good idea of what to pick up that I’ll enjoy reading. My favorite genre is realistic, contemporary fiction for middle…
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6 Road Trip Picture Books
Here are a 6 road trip picture books about taking a road trip just in time for the last long weekend of summer vacation. As I mentioned, I’m spending the long weekend at my parents’ house with a bunch of friends and family. It’s about a five-hour drive from my…
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Four on Friday: Feisty Foxes
I took the pup for a longer walk than I usually do in the morning today. And during my walk, I was trying to figure out what to share on the blog today. And an encounter with a red fox inspired me to share today’s post – Four on Friday:…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’ve Read that I’d Like to In My Personal Library
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’ve Read that I’d Like to In My Personal Library was so hard because I love adding new books to my collection. I do a pretty good job of adding things to my personal library when I absolutely love a book. But, these books I’ve read…
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4 Picture Books About Puppies
This is going to sound sacrilege coming from a librarian, but I’m much more of a dog person than a cat person. That being said, after celebrating International Cat Day, I knew I had to promote a few dog books as well! So for today, here are just 4 Picture…
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Say My Name: Importance of Names
The school year has already started for a lot of kids and if it hasn’t yet, the school year is right around the corner. It’s important to share books about the excitement and anxiety of starting a new school year or riding the bus to school. But, you don’t often…
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Four on Friday: Take a Walk
I start every day taking my pup for a walk in the neighborhood – rain or shine, snow or heat. We’re out there at least to take a jaunt around the block and usually longer to get out her energy before work starts. After work, I get home and the…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Tropes
Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Tropes is the type of list is always hard for me to write up because I honestly really enjoy most everything I read, but if you had to ask me what my favorite types of stories are they would include a little bit of the following…
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6th-8th Grade Back To School Reading List
Response I’d say that there are hundreds, if not thousands of schools across the country with school reading lists that mirror this reading list posted on Twitter by the Florida Department of Education. The list of titles includes a majority of authors that are, for a lack of a better…
