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    Princess Readalikes: Belle’s Intelligence

    Belle is my favorite princess, I mean she’s a voracious reader, so how can she not be? Besides being an avid reader, she’s also an assistant inventor (helping her dad), curious and unapologetically herself in a small town that doesn’t understand her. The characters in the following books are bright,…

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    What’s New? Literacious Updates and Changes

    I started this blog eight years ago with, I think, my first post at the very tail-end of 2010. Since then I’ve gained (many) more followers, found my voice and better figured out where I see this blog going in the future. I hope by now, you’ll see it’s been…

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    Princess Readalikes: Ariel’s Curiosity

    For Ariel’s princess trait, I chose curiosity – Ariel is curious to a fault when it comes to human’s and their inventions. The characters in these stories are inventors, scientists, explorers and detectives as they search for answers, just like Ariel.

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    Princess Readalikes: Sleeping Beauty’s Loyalty

    Sleeping Beauty was one of the hardest princesses for me to figure out just one trait that defined her as a character, but in the end, I chose loyalty. Aurora is extremely loyal to her fairy aunts who raise her far away from her castle in order to keep her…

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    Princess Readalikes: Cinderella’s Hopefulness

    The characters in these titles show their own strength and hopefulness, just like Cinderella. Cinderella’s stand out trait has to be her hopefulness. She has a fairly terrible childhood, as she becomes an orphan and a servant to her own stepmother and stepsisters, but through it all, continues to hope…

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    Project LIT Community

    There are so many children and young adult literature champions in our world and I’ve got to spend a few minutes here to share another one that, although I’ve heard a lot about, never got a chance to really understand his project until now – Jarred Amato. Jared Amato is…

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    Genre Booklists for Summer 2018

    I know we’re still in the middle of summer, but I’ve filled this blog with ten weeks of genre-focused booklists for toddlers to teens, hoping to give every kid something they’ll be interested in reading during this school break. There are over 500 titles in these lists and are available…

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    Fairy Tale Booklist Recap

    Fairy Tale Book Recap  Fractured Fairy Tales: 10+ Fairy Tales for Ages 3-7 Fairy Tale Retellings: 15+ Fairy Tale Titles for Ages 8-12 Once Upon a Time: 13+ Fairy Tale Titles for Ages 13 and up Fairy Tale Classics: 10+ Original Titles

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    Fairy Tale Classics: 10+ Original Titles

    Summer is here! And that means loads of time for kids to experience books in all their glory. This is also a great time to encourage kids to read the books they choose (without having to worry about school assignments) and to try out new genres that they might be…