Thank you College Ave Student Loans for sponsoring this post. Be sure to check out the College Ave Student Loans financial tools and parent loan options at collegeavestudentloans.com! My oldest is just two years away from going to college. Yikes! How did that happen so fast? She wants to go to art school so I’ve…
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to take a children’s book writing class so I signed up for one through my local community education program: Children’s Book Writing with Margo Lemieux. She teaches art at Lasell College but has also written children’s books. Interestingly, she has not yet illustrated her picture books. I found…
Hello! Welcome to the April 2016 Kid Lit Blog Hop. This exciting, monthly hop, is where we develop an engaged group of people who love everything that has to do with children’s literature. Everyone is welcome to join us: bloggers, authors, publicist, and publishers! Simply make a post related to Children’s literature and add it…
It’s not uncommon to see my entire family including myself on a screen while waiting for our food at a restaurant. While it keeps everyone quiet, it annoys my husband to see us all on screens. He’s devised a series of restaurant games designed to get everyone off screens. Restaurant Games to Get Kids…
Before Dr. Seuss was famous, he drew racist political cartoons during the 1920s through the 1940s. Was Dr. Seuss himself a racist, or did he just draw these cartoon for a paycheck? He was a racist. Geisel himself was vocally anti-Japanese during the war and had no trouble with rounding up an entire population of…
I’m pleased that since our last update of books my 5th grade son read through the end of November, he’s (well… we’ve) managed to read another dozen. The key is that: He has to read at school. His teacher has a read-aloud book. He’s assigned 30 minutes of reading homework 5 days a week. We…
Diverse Children’s Books is a brand new book-sharing meme designed to promote the reading and writing of children’s books that feature diverse characters. This community embraces all kinds of diversity including (and certainly not limited to) diverse, inclusive, multicultural, and global books for children of all backgrounds. <br /> <div align=”center”> <a href=”http://www.thelogonauts.com/search/label/DiverseKidLit” target=”_blank” width=200 height=200…