Best old fashioned, classic books for kids that are still beloved now. My Top 10 list includes picture books and easy readers with an homage to Maurice Sendak.
Category: Reading Lists: Picture Books
Best picture books for kids including Caldecott and other award winning books for children.
New Books for Kids: Picture Book GIVEAWAY Kaleidoscope
Win a copy of Kaleidoscope, a delightful board book with rhyming text and a built-in kaleidoscope.
LIVE CHAT with Tad Hills and Learning to Read
Meet Caldecot author Tad Hills of How Rocket Learned to Read. I also have our favorite games and books to learn the alphabet.
Top 10: Best Old Fashioned Children’s Books and Their Modern Day Equivalents
I had fun pairing up my favorite children’s book classics (picture books, easy readers and chapter books) with a modern day equivalent.
Are Crabs Crabby? And Other Egregious Misconceptions
These books for kids to read on crabs are spreading egregious misconceptions that crabs are cranky. I intend to stop this bad press!
Birds of North Captiva, Florida, Saved From Extinction!
Birds of North Captiva, Florida as seen through kids picture books and chapter books, photos and nature journals.
A Dark Eric Carle-Like Picture Book
If there was yang to Eric Carle’s yang, then this would be What Comes Darkly Thieves by Ben Rubin. It has a folk tale fable quality to it but with an openness and makes a child ask over and over again, “Why?”