When my son was three years old, he took a morning gymnastics class at a place called My Gym. It was a drop-off supervised class, but I tended to hang out and chat with moms, many of whom were at my son’s preschool. The gymnastic teachers were setting up for the next activity when my…
Month: January 2016
Diversity Picture Book #Giveaway from Candlewick Press
I had such a great time meeting the folks at Candlewick Press at a lunch they hosted for P. J. Lynch. I asked them for some diversity books to celebrate Multicultural Children’s Book Day and they were kind enough to send me this collection. I hope these books inspire you too! Diversity Picture Books from…
Janet Wong on Lunar Year Traditions with Book List!
Did you know that Tibetan Losar, the Mongolian Tsagaan Sar, and the Vietnamese Tết occur at the same time as the Chinese and Korean Lunar New Year holidays? Janet Wong shares a book list and Lunar New Year traditions over at Multicultural Children’s Book Day Blog here: I grew up celebrating the lunar new year…
Willy Wonka-Like Books & Kid Lit Blog Hop
How am I defining a Willy Wonka-Like chapter book? You probably don’t need an explanation but here I go anyway: A wacky figure-head behind this adventure A competition between kids (though adults can be involved) OR A mystery that has to be solved through riddles and puzzles Yep. That’s I came up with this list….
Civil Rights Movement Art #BlackLivesMatter
“One of the most extraordinary and least understood aspects of Dr. Martin Luther King’s leadership was his incisive understanding of the power of visual images to alter public opinion,” says Maurice Berger, standing in front of an oversize silk-screen portrait of the slain civil rights leader. from Smithsonian Magazine In celebration of Martin Luther King,…
Teach Toddlers Spanish with Lil Libros
No one in my family can speak Spanish but we’ve been trying for more than ten years to learn to converse. Our efforts have gone in waves of high effort and burn out but we are now at a good place where my kids actually want to go on immersion trips to learn to speak…
Fond Memories of Katie Woo & 3 Book #giveaway
When PickyKidPix was in 5th grade, she fell in love with the Katie Woo series but it’s not what you think. She and her friend Griffin liked to hang out in the Early Chapter Book corner of the library during library time. I would imagine that they were screwing around, as they tend to do. Their friend…