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Nonfiction Outer Space Books for Kids
With the aurora borealis in full display earlier this year and the solar eclipse, plus your more typical events like full moons and meteor showers, it’s no wonder kids (and adults) are fascinated by outer space! Today, I’m sharing 15 nonfiction books about outer space for the littlest of readers…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Things I Loved About When Green Becomes Tomatoes
When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons by Julie Fogliano and illustrated by Julie Morstad is a beautifully written book of poems that takes readers from March 20 all the way through the year to land back in March at the end of the book. The poetry is beautifully…
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Coding Books for Kids
For kids who love screen time and video games, you might get them interested in reading if they can learn how to make their own computer game! Check out these great how-to guides to learn the basics of coding computers. If you want to get into computer science as an…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Beach Reads
Rather than hitting up the dozens of summery themed romance novels, I decided to switch it around a little bit and share some great picture books today! And while I love the idea of the beach, as someone who is very pale, the beach is a lot of work to…
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Must-Read Animal Nonfiction for Kids
I had a book as a kid that I loved reading. It was a paperback book filled with all sorts of animal facts. This book was a lot of fun because you don’t have to read it cover to cover. You can open it to any page and learn a…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books with My Favorite Color on the Cover
My favorite color for as long as I can remember has always been teal. I love the combination of blue and green that can either go dark and moody or bright and cheerful. I’ve even done this prompt before for Top Ten Tuesday focusing on all middle grade novels with…
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July Read Alouds
It’s time for another month’s read alouds to celebrate wacky, silly, important, and historical holidays! This list combines not only great fictional read alouds, but some nonfiction and biographies as well to teach kids about fun and interesting facts and people. I’m not taking all the credit, as the blog…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Most Anticipated Books Releasing During the Second Half of 2024
Sometimes these prompts are a lot harder than I expect them to be! Can you believe that July is right around the corner and we’re already talking about the second half of 2024? I had a really hard time locating middle grade titles that are being released in the fall…
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Must-Read Science Nonfiction for Kids
As I’ve mentioned in the past, there are kids (and adults!) who will always prefer to read nonfiction over fiction. They like to learn new things, read about things they love, and just want to read fact over fiction. And guess what? That’s awesome! Reading is a great way to…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Summer 2024 To-Read List
I’ve got a bunch of great romance titles on my summer TBR list this year – all of which have been published in the past couple of months! For many people, summer is a time to spend time reading when they don’t normally. Summer for me is much more of…
