PickyKidPix who is now in 8th grade surprised me with this question: Is Coco Chanel a real person? First of all, how does she even know about Chanel? I think she watches too many YouTube beauty bloggers. And secondly, how strange that she only knows Chanel as a brand name because, in fact, she knew…
Category: Best Books for Kids
Best picture books, chapter books, young adult books, graphic novels and non fiction for kids.
Great Easy Readers
It just so happened that most of the diversity picks on the nominated easy readers for The Cybils made the shortlist. I personally was a champion of Don’t Throw It to Mo! by David Adler which also won the Geisel Award. My fellow judges were mostly librarians and they needed something fresh to get excited…
Win New Riordan Book #TrialsofApollo #giveaway
This post is brought to you in partnership with Disney-Hyperion. Disney-Hyperion sent me this title, and is also providing a prize pack for one winner from my site. Are you ready for a new Rick Riordan book? I know that my son is! He’s read every single children’s book that Rick Riordan ever wrote. We are…
Meeting Voices of Freedom: The Fannie Mae Hamer Author and Illustrator
It was an honor and a thrill to meet author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Ekua Holmes of Voices of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement. Did you know that Voices of Freedom won: 2016 Caldecott Honor Book 2016 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book 2016 John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award…
10 Books for Children Who Dream of Flying
Read these children’s books about flying on an airplane! Perfect picture books about amazing airplanes and the people who dream to fly. Please welcome my guest blogger today, author Carole Boston Weatherford! Her novel in verse just came out, a stunning perspective of the accomplishments of the Tuskegee Airmen during Jim Crow WWII America. This…
Get Kids Gardening with Miracle-Gro® Gro-ables!
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Miracle-Gro Gro-ables for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. This year on the first day of spring in Boston, it snowed. The day after that, it hailed. Spring comes slowly to Boston. Last year, I started my first vegetable garden with my kids. I…
29 Children’s Books About Animal Shelters and Rescue Pets
There’s no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner. John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day is tomorrow, April 30. This day was created as a way to raise awareness for thousands of pets that are waiting for (and needing) adoption from the shelters. It…