Today is Holi which I know very little about so I asked the author of Dev and Ollie: Colour Carnival to help me out. Please welcome my guest blogger today Shweta Aggarwal! p.s. Related posts: Durga Puja and the Festivals of India Hindu Picture Book by Demi Top 10: Best South Asian American Children’s Books (ages 2-14)…
Author: Pragmatic Mom
Picture Book Doll House at My Library
My public library has a display that I’ve long admired of a picture book doll house. Each room represents a children’s book. Isn’t it wonderful? Three bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen, and living room. The Good Night Moon room was the most obvious to me; this is such an iconic book but Five Minutes’ Peace is…
9 Cell Science Projects Using Cake and Candy
Middle school science doesn’t have to be dry and boring. Here are 9 Cell Science Projects Using Cake and Candy, including my daughter’s 7th grade project in which baked a cake to depict a model of a cell. The model of a cell cake is a popular science project for 7th grade. My daughter says that anyone…
Kid Lit Blog Hop
Hello! Welcome to the March 2016 Kid Lit Blog Hop. This exciting, now monthly hop, is where we develop an engaged group of people who love everything that has to do with children’s literature. Everyone is welcome to join us: bloggers, authors, publicist, and publishers! Simply make a post related to Children’s literature and add…
Cover Reveal for Rice and Rocks!
Today, I am doing the cover reveal for a diversity picture book called Rice & Rocks. I met author Sandra L. Richards through Instagram and I’d encourage any new authors to meet bloggers through social media. It works! Rice & Rocks by Sandra L. Richards Tradition takes flight in Rice & Rocks, a picture book…
Making Pie for Pi Day: 3.14.16 (rounding up!)
My mathematician dad would be proud that I’m celebrating Pi Day today and have been for the past few years. Last year, I found Pi Day cartoons which I found hilarious. I looked that the relationship between Pi and The Golden Rule and how Pi tells stories. I even celebrated Tau Day which is 2x Pi….
21 African-American Female Musicians Picture Books
March is Women’s History Month so I’ve started off with a video of a musician that is new to me, Hazel Dorothy Scott, a jazz prodigy who was prominent during the 1930s and 1940s. I could not find a picture book biography on her (yet) but here’s hoping that someone will write out. In the…