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Four on Friday: National Endangered Species Day
Today is National Endangered Species Day! It’s a chance to learn about the amazing animals and plants that are endangered, primarily due to humans. Learn about conservation efforts and what you can do in your own backyard to help! I’m sharing just four books with characters that are critically endangered.…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/17/2021
What I Read Between the CDC lifting a lot of regulations around mask-wearing on a random Thursday, which left me sending a bunch of emails to my manager and staff about the following morning and driving out to my parents’ house for a quick weekend trip to help work on…
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Four on Friday: National Dance Like a Chicken Day
Who knew? It’s National Dance Like a Chicken Day! And honestly, I can’t think of anything else but the Arrested Development characters making fun of each and calling each other chicken! But, besides this awesome gif, I also found some really great chicken picture books for today’s post! There’s an…
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9 Books to Celebrate Eid Al-Fitr
From sundown yesterday to sundown this evening, Muslims around the world are celebrating Eid Al-Fitr. This festival celebrates the end of fasting during the month of Ramadan. I didn’t have a lot of luck finding many books about this holiday, but I found a few I wanted to share. Many…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/10/2021
What I Read Why can’t weekends just last a little longer? I had such great plans to read this weekend and it just didn’t happen! This week I finished All You Knead is Love by Tanya Guerrero – it was really great! If I wasn’t trying to eat a little…
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Four on Friday: National Space Day
It’s National Space Day! Today we celebrate the achievements of mathematicians, scientists, and astronauts who have explored the final frontier. Today I’m sharing four nonfiction (ish) books for different age groups. From board books to middle grade students, these are engaging titles that are sure to pique your child’s interest…
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30 Books for Kids – AAPI Heritage Month
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. Today I’m sharing 30 books for kids for AAPI Heritage Month. I’m only sharing 30 titles there are hundreds more out there, but rather than compile more, I wanted to at least get these shared! Asia covers a vast part…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 5/3/2021
What I Read This week I read We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance by Deborah Hopkinson. This is multiple accounts of experiences during the Holocaust with a lot of primary sources. I think having these tiny glimpses into people’s lives helps people to understand how horrific…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/26/2021
What I Read I read so much this past week! Partially because verse novels are much faster to read and I also wasn’t feeling great this week which meant a lot of down time trying to rest and relax. Thankfully, I’m on the mend, and I got to read a…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/19/2021
What I Read Do you ever re-read books? And for any particular reason? I was having one of those weeks – lots of work meetings, I worked all day on Saturday and had some other things going on as well. All of these things combined called for a re-read that…
