Best picture books for kids including Caldecott and other award winning books for children.
Inside: Celebrate our heroes with these children’s books about firefighters! Perfect for preschoolers and kindergarten kids who love firefighters and fire trucks. Vendome Firefighters Memorial is on Commonwealth Avenue in Back Bay Boston near the intersection of Dartmouth Street. I have passed by it many times on my way to my office without knowing what…
This was my first time visiting the Auguste Rodin Museum, known as The Musée Rodin, in Paris. It was strangely in a highly policed neighborhood full of guards with automatic assault rifles and government buildings. It felt like there were important dignitaries such as royalty or heads of state there given the level of security….
This collection of poetry books represents a few of the newly published books from 2019 meant to introduce children to poetry, whether that is in the classroom or at home. Thus, there are quite a few anthologies in this book with collections of poems from luminaries both contemporary and from the distant past. I have…
My kids and I love a good farmers’ market but it was during our vacation to Kauai and we really sought them out in search of fruit. It was here that we sampled many exotic fruits as well as unusual varieties of bananas, pineapples, and papayas. These almost daily excursions reminded us of how nice…
I’ll be at the Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival in a few weeks and I’ll be interviewing three authors there on behalf of KidLitTV: Phil Bildner, Sandra Neil Wallace, and Joyce Wan. Today, I’m researching Joyce Wan. Let’s get started! Award-winning author-illustrator, Joyce Wan, designed her first greeting card when she was in first grade for a…
I think the Holy Grail of Halloween picture books is the classic, Room on a Broom, which combines so many delightful elements into a Halloween-themed book: counting, friendship, humor, and a search for missing objects. Room on a Broom by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler These Halloween picture books have some of these elements. What…
My son’s favorite class in middle school was Ed-Tech, an engineering class. He thought it was fun to invent things to solve problems. That’s what engineering is … designing and building machines and structures including bridges, roads, vehicles, and buildings. It’s often to solve a practical problem or improve on a machine that already exists….