My son did the 6-week Rhode Island School of Design Pre-College program. He thinks that because he registered early for this program, he ended up in the new dorm, the one with AIR CONDITIONING which is very useful during Providence’s humid and sticky summers! He doesn’t need much by way of dorm room decoration as…
Author: Pragmatic Mom
Multicultural Children’s Book Club: PLANTING STORIES
Please join us for our Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE multicultural children’s picture book virtual book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm to 8 pm EST. March’s event will be held on March 2nd and we are celebrating Women’s History Month using Planting Stories: The Life of…
Keeping It Real: Middle Grade Graphic Novel panel at Boston Book Festival
Colleen AF Venable moderated this popular panel at the Boston Book Festival, Keeping It Real: Middle Grade Graphic Novels. “Middle grade readers can’t get enough of graphic novels that reflect the real lives of kids. Join three authors whose illustrated novels explore the trials and tribulations, large and small, of regular girls. In Kayla Miller’s…
Make Way for Ducklings at the Boston Public Garden
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey is an icon of Boston. It’s right up there with Fenway Park’s Sweet Caroline for the 7th-inning stretch! Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey A mother and father duck look for the perfect place to hatch and raise their ducklings in Boston. Their journey is fraught with…
The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda & Sydney Taylor Honor Book Award Blog Tour #STBA #JewishBooksAreDiverseBooks
I am thrilled today to be part of a blog tour to celebrate the Sydney Taylor Book Award Finalists. Each of us on the blog tour will be interviewing one award recipient. I am thrilled to be talking to Shoshana Nambi, author of The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda. I am also grateful…
10 Poetry Picture Books for POEM IN MY POCKET
Poem in Your Pocket Day is April 29 and is part of National Poetry Month. Here are 9 Poetry Picture Books for POEM IN MY POCKET. Here’s how to participate: It’s easy to participate in Poem in Your Pocket Day from a safe distance. Here are some ideas of how you might get involved: Select a poem…
Visiting Norman Rockwell’s Studio
I learned to fly fish in the Berkshires for my husband’s birthday and took this opportunity to add in a visit to the Norman Rockwell Museum. Like everyone, certain images come to mind. Ruby Bridges starting school. Boys jumping into a swimming hole. The quintessential Thanksgiving in America. What I did not realize was that…