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…
I’m not sure what children’s publishing rule of thumb seems to dictate that hamsters sell Early Chapter Books but when I judged the first round of Cybils, there was a surprising amount of hamster-themed books in this category. This, of course, lets me search out more Early/Easy Chapter Books with hamsters as characters as well…
My son selected four cool videos from a slew for your viewing pleasure. I added some book suggestions. Like his video picks? Here’s more: The Kid Should Really See These Videos! Amazing Videos to Share With Your Kids My Son’s Favorite Fun and Educational Videos The Kid Should Really See This Videos Flu Season Science…
I covered my Japanese Daimyo family history and my husband’s Chosun Dynasty family history on his father’s side, so I thought I’d cover my Chinese family history today. My father immigrated from China before the Communist Revolution to attend UCLA for a PhD in mathematics. He was asked to return to China right as the war began, but…
I showed my son this video below on how to make an easy Pop-Up card. He watched it once and said that he “got it,” and then went off-road, making two cards of his own. It’s a fun and easy way to introduce STEM (or really this is more STEAM – Science Technology Engineering Art…
Today is Holi which I know very little about so I asked the author of Dev and Ollie: Colour Carnival to help me out. Please welcome my guest blogger today Shweta Aggarwal! p.s. Related posts: Durga Puja and the Festivals of India Hindu Picture Book by Demi Top 10: Best South Asian American Children’s Books (ages 2-14)…
My public library has a display that I’ve long admired of a picture book doll house. Each room represents a children’s book. Isn’t it wonderful? Three bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen, and living room. The Good Night Moon room was the most obvious to me; this is such an iconic book but Five Minutes’ Peace is…