Please welcome Elisa Boxer with her list of athletes who overcame disease and physical issues to compete at the Olympics. Her picture book biography Splash is about the first American woman to win Olympic gold – she took up swimming to recover from polio. Splash: Ethelda Bleibtrey Makes Waves of Change by Elisa Boxer, illustrated…
Author: Pragmatic Mom
Visiting The British Museum and the Return of Stolen Artifacts
The British Museum is a testament to England’s history as a colonizer. Many of the artifacts here are in dispute including 900 Benin bronze artifacts taken from Nigeria, the Parthenon Sculptures, a collection of marble architectural decoration from the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, and the Rosetta Stone of Egypt. Recently, there has been a movement for…
Ultimate Food Atlas Blog Tour & GIVEAWAY!
Welcome to the Ultimate Food Atlas Blog Tour! This week, join us for a fantastic food journey around the globe as we celebrate the release of the Ultimate Food Atlas (National Geographic Kids Books, ages 8-12). Five blogs across the web are featuring posts from the book as we “travel” from continent to continent to discover a…
Dealing With Sibling Rivalry as a Parent
If you have two or more kids at home, you’ve probably had to break up at least one fight over a toy, video game, or even ice cream flavor. Sometimes you also have to deal with screaming arguments about who is the preferred child or who gets the most attention from the parents. Sibling rivalry…
Coding For Kids: A Guide for Teachers and Parents
If you are going to teach kids programming, do it gently. You can scare kids away from coding for life if you approach it in the wrong way such as by forcing them to do it. If your child is showing resistance to coding, hold off for a few years until your child is older…
What Is a Storyboard and Why Do You Need to Create One?
My First-To-College Mentee was interested in storyboarding as a career in the entertainment industry. Storyboarding can be the ultimate creative job — think Star Wars and who got to imagine that world with all the various types of aircraft and weaponry! But even commercials need storyboarding as a way to communicate to the client what…
Musical Journeys: Introduction to Piano Online Class for Young Children
Well, it’s been thirty years in the making but my sister’s piano teaching method books, Keiko and Sam’s Musical Journeys, are finally ready. I did the illustrations thirty years ago as well. In fact, it’s so long ago that I barely recognized some of the drawings. Noreen’s wrote Keiko and Sam’s Musical Journeys when the…