Best picture books for kids including Caldecott and other award winning books for children.
Please welcome Shoumi Sen who is guest posting for me today. She’s the author of Celebrate Durga Puja With Me! Her book celebrates an important festival in India, Durga Puja, which is about the Mother Goddess, and the victory of the revered warrior Goddess Durga over the evil buffalo demon Mahishasura. Like Chinese New Year,…
I’ve been making very, very short picture book videos on my YouTube channel. I only have 47 subscribers, so if you would subscribe, I’d be very grateful! I made over three dozen picture book videos so far of newly published books, but I picked these five diverse books to highlight today. 5 Wonderful Diversity…
Maria Ashworth is my guest blogger today with a list of ten picture books to help toddlers and preschoolers learn how to be a good friend. Her picture book is called My Big Tree and introduces counting to 10. Animals in North America join a bluebird in a tree but must reorganize into segregated groups…
Can picture books teach life lessons? I think so. To find life lessons, I went to some original sources … life lessons from a 90-year-old woman and a 99-year-old man. Their words of wisdom were similar and it’s about living well to live long. I added in a few life lessons that I’ve found along…
For Father’s Day a few years back, my husband recommended his favorite golf books, not once but twice. He played golf in college for University of Hawaii and is an avid collector of golf stuff: Scotty Cameron putters, golf books, and other very specific items that I can’t keep track of. This Father’s Day, we…
I’m celebrating Maria Gianferrari’s new sequel to Penny and Jelly today by doing a three picture book giveaway! Penny and Jelly Slumber Under the Stars celebrates the pleasure of the great outdoors in the company of our favorite animal friends.. We have a fair amount of light pollution where I live, but sometimes on vacation when we…
Celebrate the Muslim faith with these Ramadan books for kids! These Islamic children’s storybooks for toddlers through big kids are sure to inspire your child. We are celebrating Ramadan over at Multicultural Children’s Book Day for the month of June. This is my contribution. Join us on our blog with guest posts from authors on…