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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Plants
There are some absolutely beautiful nonfiction books about plants, flowers, and trees. I know it’s not hard to create beautiful books about nature, but these will encourage kids to take their time pouring over the details of the illustrations. Whether your kids love getting dirty in the yard or prefer…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Outer Space
We’re heading a little further away with this book list – among the stars! While I’ve never been interested in the technology side of outer space – rockets, satellites, astronauts, I do love looking at the stars. Where I live now has entirely too much light pollution to see anything…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Narrative Nonfiction
Can you believe we’ve tipped into the second half of the alphabet already? It’s been a whirlwind of blogging over the past few weeks and I feel like after ten years of this challenge, I’ve figured out a lot of the logistics, I just need to find more time in…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Maps
In a world that travels by Apples Maps, Google Maps, and Waze, I miss the good old days of opening up the road atlas and tracing the route from point a to point b. I grew up in a time where AAA TripTiks were printed and you spent the trip…
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Storytime Theme: Rainbow
Well, it’s the final color-themed storytime for a while – I couldn’t ignore the rainbow! The series just didn’t seem complete without an all-encompassing rainbow themed storytime lesson plan. This could be a great introduction to the series or an ending, but between this lesson plan and the ones listed…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Language Learning
As we continue to travel through the alphabet, we taking the chance to travel around the world as well with an introduction to language learning in a variety of languages, plus being able to better understand the importance of language both verbal and nonverbal as well! Studies show that kids…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Know It All
Some letters of this challenge are easier than others and I have learned over the past ten years to provide myself with a few spaces where I can kind of create a catch-all location for additional titles that I want to share that may not fit in a different letter’s…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Jokes & Riddles
Whoever knew that jokes and riddles would be considered nonfiction? Well, there’s a space for jokes and books of riddles in the Dewey Decimal System (and the letter J is really hard to find a word for!), so here we are! I also think it’s a sneaky way to get…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Insects
It’s a creepy-crawly book list for you today! And while, I’m not afraid of insects, I don’t want to see them in my house and can take care of them when they do find their way indoors (usually by scooping them up and taking them back outdoors!). But, I do…
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Storytime Theme: Brown, Black, Gray, and White
While these colors – brown, black, gray, and white are not the most popular colors for toddlers and preschoolers, there are a surprising number of books that are available for these colors. And while, you could easily do a storytime about each one individually, I chose to combine them all…
