Flying runs in my family. When I was in 8th grade, my class visited the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and I had the privilege of…
This post has been a long time coming… Let’s just say life keeps getting in the way. I’m sure you know how that is. Especially…
I recently posted about how much I love wordless books. If you missed that post, you may want to start there for some ideas of…
When my husband added “father” to his resume three years ago, I started the tradition of giving him a dad-related picture book each year on…
The two-year-old and I have been LOVING biographies these days. I don’t know if you realize this, but we live in a special time in…
Long, long ago in a faraway place, I used Cynthia Rylant’s If You’ll Be My Valentine with second graders. And then, I started teaching older…
Happy New Year! Can you believe it’s 2019? Not long ago, a blizzard swept through Chicago, and in the morning, our front and back yards…
Christmas is coming, and whether you’ve been collecting gifts since July or whether you’re one of those last-minute shoppers, I have a few books to…
Oh this one is good! When Floyd’s kite gets stuck in a tree, he throws a variety of increasingly ridiculous items into the tree, trying…
I was first introduced to Animalia by Graeme Base during my teaching practicum. I was as enamored by the illustrations and the eccentric vocabulary as…