Inside: Looking for the best children’s books about soccer? Discover fiction and nonfiction books for kids to read and learn everything about this worldwide sport! Children’s Books about Soccer Mina vs. the Monsoon by Rukhsanna Guidroz, illustrated by Debasmita Dasgupta This isn’t a picture book about the monsoon rains. It’s really a story about a young…
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Cooking Class: Gnocchi From Scratch at Saltbox Farm Cooking School
To celebrate Valentine’s Day without the kids, my husband and I used a gift certificate that I received from my childhood friends for my birthday to take a cooking class at Saltbox Farm. It’s small working farm that sells farm shares, has a small restaurant, and a cooking school. We had a wonderful time learning…
Ansel Adams: In Our Time at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Ansel Adams: In Our Time at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is a sweeping look at how he portrayed the American Southwest and his influence and influences. This iconic visual legacy of Ansel Adams (1902–1984) also showed the history of the United States from racism in how Native Americans were portrayed to the internment…
My 5 Mentor Children’s Books for Writing an Alphabet Picture Book
The 2019 5th Annual ReFoReMo (Reading for Research Month) Online Picture Book Challenge is coming up in March. ReFoReMo supports picture book writers, educators, and students who enjoy learning about stellar writing from mentor texts. I’m participating this year with five books 5 current book titles that have opened my eyes to one aspect of the…
9 Passover and Easter Picture Books
Please welcome Vivian Kirkfield today with her list of Picture Books about Passover and Easter. We are giving away a signed copy of her book, Pippa’s Passover Plate! Please enter using the Rafflecopter at the bottom. Both Easter and Passover are holidays that cluster around springtime. They give us an opportunity to reflect on the…
10 New Great STEM Kids’ Books
Heads and Tails by John Canty This is a beautiful picture book that sets up each page spread as a guessing game with clues about each animal. There are visual clues too! Canty shows the rear end of the animal with the clues and the reader flips the page to see the head. This is…
National Ambassador For Young People’s Literature Swag
Schools, libraries, young people without the means to print out the below on cardstock or some other kind of decent bookmark/standee paper, please email a snailmail address to assistant@jacquelinewoodson.com and we’ll have the Children’s Book Council send some stuff directly to them. Illustration of Jacqueline Woodson created by 5th National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature,…