In Conversation: Mia Wenjen and Jolene Gutiérrez Mar 31, 2026 Mia Wenjen and Jolene Gutiérrez both grapple with the cruelty of internment and family separation in their new picture books Barbed Wire Between Us and Unbreakable: A Japanese American Family in an American Incarceration Camp, respectively. The two authors spoke about depicting difficult subject matter for young readers,…
Please welcome my guest author, Charlotte Offsay, with her list of 8 Summer-Themed Picture Books. Summer will be here before you know it, especially where I live on the East Coast, where we go from Spring to Summer in about 9 seconds. We are giving away a copy of The Quiet Ocean. To enter, please…
Thank you to Gramms AI for sponsoring this post. Every parent knows bedtime storytelling is magic. But if you’ve ever struggled to find books with characters who look like your child — or tried to read with energy and voices after a long day — you know the magic has limits. Gramms is an iOS…
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Most parents focus on reading skills. Phonics, fluency, comprehension, and book levels get most of the attention. Those things matter, but they are only part of the picture, and they are not what keep a child reading once school stops requiring it. There is a quieter factor that often matters more in the long run….
This song is based on the powerful book – Barbed Wire Between Us – that follows two little girls held in the same detention camp (Fort Sill, Oklahoma) decades apart. Sadly, their story of family separation and illegal detention echoes recent news about places such as the ICE detention facility at Dilley and others, causing…
Curiosity is often the foundation of lifelong learning. Children who naturally ask how, why, and what happens next tend to develop stronger problem-solving skills, greater confidence in unfamiliar situations, and a deeper appreciation for the world around them. For parents, nurturing this kind of intellectual curiosity requires creating an environment where exploration feels natural, questions…