Please welcome my guest post author today, Paula Yoo! She is the author of Twenty-Two Cents, a picture book biography of microloan creator and Nobel Peace Price Laureate Muhammad Yunnus. Twenty-two Cents: Muhammad Yunus and the Village Bank by Paula Yoo, illustrated by Jamal Akib Before I started writing books for children, I was a journalist. I…
Category: Best Books for Kids
Best picture books, chapter books, young adult books, graphic novels and non fiction for kids.
5 Green Earth Book Award and Kid Lit Blog Hop
2014 winners for the Green Earth Book Award, which is a national recognition of authors and illustrators whose books best inspire young readers to appreciate and care for the environment. AIn its 10thyear, the Green Earth Book Award has five categories. The 2014 winners are … The Eye of the Whale a Rescue Story by Jennifer…
Predicting 2015 Caldecott & Newbery
I have a selfish reason for compiling this list. It’s my Christmas book list for my kids. It’s also because my kids won’t read (probably like yours!) unless they have a really good book and so I search and search and present, like a game show hostess, blog posts of books that I think my…
7 Great New Picture Book Finds and GIVEAWAY!
Today is my turn for Picture Book of the Day and I had a hard time choosing because I’ve been reading and hoarding a small pile of really great picture books. In the end, I went with my Caldecott contender picture book, Sam & Dave Dig a Hole by two Caldecott honored authors, Mac Barnett and…
6 Great Biographies for Kids and Kid Lit Blog Hop
I loved biographies as a child. When I was in 4th grade, I polished off the entire section of biographies book by book, just going alphabetically down the line. It was an amazing way to meet a lot of interesting people and it probably plants a sublinminal message of “be awesome” like these people. Make…
Rick Riordan’s Keynote at Boston Book Festival
There were wonderful H. H. Richardson buildings near the last U.Fund Dreams Tour that I went to at the Children’s Museum of Easton. Was it a lucky coincidence that the last stop of the U.Fund Dreams Tour at the Boston Book Festival included Rick Riordan speaking at H. H. Richardson’s finest work, Trinity Church? Trinity…
26 Perfect Read Alouds for Kindergarten
Inside: Reading aloud to kindergarten kids is a fantastic way to encourage a love of books! Take a look at our top picks of read alouds for kindergarten. I was extremely fortunate to have the most amazing kindergarten teacher three times for each of my children. It’s a hat trick that other moms would oooh in…