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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Visual
This might be one of my favorite lists this month! I’m a very visual learner, so having books that put a focus on creating a visual environment for readers, especially nonfiction titles, is wonderful! Visual nonfiction is just one type of nonfiction writing and if you want to learn more…
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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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Like – Picture Book Review
Summary: “Are you like a tin can?Not really. How about a swimming pool?Like a swimming pool, you are filled with water and chemicals and dirt, so you are a little bit like a swimming pool. How about mushrooms, excavators, hyenas . . . Hey, wait a minute! You know what…
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Big and Small and In-Between
Summary: “This wide, wonderful world contains many things. Some things are as big as a family of bears; some are as small as a reflection in a puddle. Some things are felt rather than seen. In between it all is . . . you. What kinds of things will you…
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Never Too Old for Picture Books
I saw an opinion piece in the New York Times over the weekend and definitely had to share it! Entitled Your Kids Aren’t Too Old for Picture Books, and Neither Are You the article explains the bad rap picture books get in the literary world and how important they are…
