I’m thrilled to be participating in KidLit Celebrates Women’s History Month, run by Margo Tanenbaum, of The Fourth Musketeer, and Lisa Taylor, of Shelf-employed. I met Margo at KidLitCon in 2012. Their great blog celebrates women in history by organizing a month of guest posts about women in history. My post on Anna May Wong was on March…
Astounding Videos for Kids with a Science Twist
Thank you to everyone who left kind comments about enjoying the videos that my son and I are curating from The Kid Should See This videos. They curate videos made for adults but are appropriate for kids. My son and I watch a ton of them and we pick out our favorites. Science Videos to…
Writing Tips for Children from NS Blackman
What if… your child wants to write a really great story but can’t? Writing Tips for Children from author NS Blackman of The Secret Dinosaur series Kids who love reading very often like writing too – there’s no surprise in that. It’s fantastic if your child gets the writing bug. They’ve spent hours reading a…
Gift Ideas for Mother’s Day for Moms & Grandmothers
Do you need gift ideas for Mother’s Day? I always do. The problem is that I think Mother’s Day is all about me and I forget that I also need to get Mother’s Day gifts for the grandmothers. One year this meant overnight expressing cards for Saturday delivery! Grandmothers might find this bracelet to be too…
Top 10: Spy and Superhero Chapter Books for Kids
Does your child enjoy superhero stories? Take a look at these spies and superhero chapter books for kids, perfect for early readers through middle school! My son has recently become very interested in DC and Marvel comics from the video game Injustice. It’s been great because, though a video game that he played a lot,…
Best Multicultural Picture Books and Kid Lit Blog Hop
This is a really great multicultural/diversity/inclusion book list for kids: 2015 Notable Books for a Global Society Award. I haven’t read them all so I’ll use book jacket blurbs with age range to make this list more helpful for parents and teachers looking for books for kids. I am splitting this list into three parts. Today I…
Feather vs Bowling Ball: Which Falls Fastest?
PickyKidPix‘s soccer team played in Italy this past summer and the tour included a stop at Pisa on the Fourth of July. We were warned that Pisa is swarming with petty thieves and that we had to be on high alert. Once we got there though, the square is so beautiful with other buildings besides…