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Month: September 2013
16 Best Children’s Books With Single Parents
Read these children’s books with single parents! Includes picture books and chapter books featuring single-parent and nontraditional families. The divorce rate in America peaked at around 50 percent in the 1980s and slowly has been trending downward. It is now slightly more than 40 percent. With so many divorced families, why are there more children’s…
10 Books to Read for Banned Book Week
In honor of Banned Book Week, let’s read a book on the list! Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2011-2012 Information on why the book is banned or challenged excerpted from The Daily Beast. 1. TTYL series by Lauren Myracle The first book in the series, “TTYL,” was banned from a town in Texas in 2008, after…
I’m Judging the Cybils!
I’m really excited to be judging Graphics (as in graphic novels) for the 2013 Cybils! What am I excited to read? Graphic novels that tell a great story, get kids excited to read, and have beautiful illustrations doing some of the heavy lifting of storytelling. I’d also love to discover more graphic stories for younger…
Monsters In the Closet Picture Books: The Dark
I started haunting our local bookstore to read picture books but I always feel guilty using it like a library so I make sure to buy a small stack. When it comes to picture books, I am the pickiest purchaser ever because I am buying for myself! The Dark made my purchase pile. I had…
Happy Birthday to My Mom: 90 Years Young!
Today my mom turns 90 years old! Oops, I mean 90 years young! Happy birthday mom! She was born in San Francisco’s Japantown in 1923. Her parents immigrated from Japan and I have that story here along with our Japanese family crest. During WWII, she was forced to relocate with her family. She ended up in a remote…
My Son’s 2nd Grade Hopes and Dreams
PickyKidPix and I had a good laugh when we reflected on the summer camp choices that her siblings made. I let each of them pick one inconvenient (and overpriced) week of day camp. Grasshoppper and Sensei picked Hot Glass Blowing. PickyKidPix picked a week of soccer camp run by FC Barcelona, our favorite professional soccer…