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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Finance
We’re starting week two of the Blogging A to Z Challenge with an important concept that isn’t just difficult for kids to understand, but for adults as well – finances! And while I know the basics of saving and spending money, I wish I knew more about investing, retirement accounts,…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Encyclopedia
Kids often love to pick out HUGE tomes that they can barely carry. I’m not sure exactly what the draw is, but encyclopedia are often quite large! And are so engaging with lots of quick facts next to things like charts, graphs, photographs, and illustrations. And while my library continues…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Dinosaurs
There was no other choice when it came to the Letter D for the 2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge! Dinosaurs were an absolute must, partially for the dino-obsessed kids, but also for their caregivers who desperately need resources to help pronounce all of these dino names their kids love…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Coding
Coding and STEM have been buzzwords for a few years now as many people push for kids to learn more about technology, especially now that AI has become more prevalent in day-to-day life. What I really enjoy is that basic coding really isn’t that difficult as a computer must follow…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Body
It’s time for Letter B and I’m sharing twelve nonfiction titles about the human body today! The human body is an amazing machine with lots of complex systems and there are kids that are fascinated with how it works. These are great books for a wide-range of kids from lift-the-flap…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Art
It’s April first and the first day of the 2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge! This year, I’m sharing all children’s nonfiction titles. And I know, before you say, what the heck is she thinking?!?!? I promise you, children’s nonfiction books are some of the coolest books on the market…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To
While today’s prompt is 2024 Releases I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To, there are so many books I haven’t gotten to yet! So, I decided to create a list of ten middle grade titles that I really want to read and even have some of these…
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Top Ten Tuesday: New-To-Me Authors in 2024
These new to me authors almost all wrote exclusively contemporary romance a genre that I’m enjoying post COVID as an escape from the real world where I know that even when there’s a kerfuffle, eveything is going to have a happy ending. Some of these are the first in a…
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Top Ten Tuesday: 2025 YA Books
While today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme was “The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection” I’m not a person that buys a lot of books for my own collection. Being a library director, I borrow the majority of my books from the library as I’m very much running out…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Goals for 2025
In order to work on my bookish goals for 2025, I thought it might be smart to look back at my goals for 2024. And not surprising after the year that I had, I didn’t accomplish as much as I wanted to in terms of these goals. I was really…
