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12 Titles to Celebrate Leap Year
We’re celebrating leap year today! Each year is actually 365.25 days long, so every four years we tack on an extra in February! Learn more about Leap Year from Wonderopolis. Did you know that there aren’t that many leap year books for kids? So I pulled together 12 Titles to…
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Four on Friday: Country Music
Inspired by Nashville and its title as Music City, USA I’m sharing country music picture books today for Four on Friday! Although not my favorite genre of music, I think it’s important to expose kids to all sorts of styles of music and instruments. These books are a fun way…
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Slice of Life Challenge
There are only a few more days left in February which means that the Slice of Life challenge by Two Writing Teachers is getting ready to kick-off on March 1st. I participated last year and was so surprised by how many comments I received on my blog and in person…
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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
I’m spending the week in Nashville for the Publica Library Association (PLA) Conference. This conference focuses on trends and issues facing public librarians and moves around the country every other year. I’ve never been to Nashville, so I’m excited to explore the Music City. I’m going to be really busy…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Characters I’d Follow On Social Media
This was such a fun topic to think about! I wanted to really look at some young adult characters as I thought many of the middle school characters probably shouldn’t be on social media quite yet. Plus, young adult novels have a lot of great characters that I’d love to…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 2/24/2020
Last Week I’m continuing to love how well I’m keeping up with my TBR this year (and it’s already been 2 months!). This week I finished up No True Believers by Rabiah York Lumbard which was so good – social justice and thriller all in one! I’ll be doing a…
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2020 CLEL Bell Award Winners
In the midst of January changing over to February, I missed the announcement of the 2020 CLEL Bell Award Winners! Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy (CLEL) is an amazing resource for librarians, teachers, parents, and caregivers with great book suggestions and tips and tricks for storytimes. I’m a huge proponent…
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Illustrator Spotlight: Jerry Pinkney
Jerry Pinkney is an award-winning illustrator of over 100 books for children. He’s also a native to Philadelphia which is always a neat fact to share with kids! Although an artist from the time he was a young child, he also suffered from dyslexia at a time when little was…
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A Year of Meaningful Reads
Brightly has created a year-long book club for families based on different themes each month called A Year of Meaningful Reads. What’s great about the way Brightly, a Penguin Random House initiative, is that each month there are titles for all different age groups. January’s theme was kindness, and you…
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Trying Something New – West African Peanut Soup
As I’ve mentioned before, I love to try new recipes in my kitchen! This week I tried a West African Peanut Soup filled with sweet potato, kale, and chickpeas. This recipe comes from the cookbook, Love Real Food by Kathryne Taylor, from the cooking blog, Cookie + Kate. I wouldn’t…
