Books on Tape Audio Book App: Great for Reluctant Readers!
I can’t exactly remember how I discovered AudioBooks for Kids but I think they sent me an email a long, long time ago and now I am finally posting! Read more…
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Top 10: Korean American Children’s Books (ages 2-16)
Best Korean American Books for Kids
My husband is Korean and I joke that the Koreans are nicknamed “The Irish of Asia.” Like the Irish, they have a strong culture despite a long history of invasion and occupation. Like the Irish, they have a penchant for drinking and fighting. And like the Irish, there is a vein of melancholy than runs through their DNA. Or at least, this is my take on it. Read more…
Top 10: Japanese American Children’s Books (ages 2-16)
Best Japanese American Books for Kids
The story of Japanese immigration is also true for my own family history. Changes in Japan during the Meiji Restoration from 1868 to 1912 wrought great changes in Japan as the country tried to modernize. The old feudal system of titled landowners was abruptly stripped away, and the daimyo domains of titled landowners were turned into prefectures. For those families including my own, they were forced to buy back their own lands as some of their lost lands included sacred family burial grounds. To earn the money, large numbers of Japanese men found work in Hawaii in the pineapple and sugar cane plantations and from there, migrated to the mainland. Read more…
Kids’ Favorite Books: Children’s Choice Book Awards
Kids Give Book Award to Their Favorite Books
The Children’s Choice Book Awards is the only national children’s book awards program where winning titles are selected by young readers of all ages. The good news here is that there is a very high probability that your child will like these books too! The children (and teens) have spoken! These are their favorite books for 2011! Read more…
Top 10: Best Baseball Chapter Books (ages 7-16)
Best Baseball Books for Kids
These books are from a Mom Blogger friend at CoffeeShopBloggers whose daughter is a sports fanatic and these were her favorite baseball books. These books are appropriate for grades 3-5th. The “…and Me” novels, also known as, the Baseball Card Adventures are fun because the child in the story travels back in time to meet a baseball legend.
I suspect that any little leaguer who might not love to read will enjoy these books! It might even inspire them to look at baseball equipment from Homerun Monkey and start playing baseball immediately. But I actually hope to get them reading! Read more…
Top 10: Eerie Similarities of Newest Penderwicks and Karen Day Book
Penderwicks Series and Book Just Like It!
It might have been a sheer coincidence (cue Twilight Zone music below!), but I was reading the newest Penderwicks book(The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall) with my middle child and the newest book from Karen Day (A Million Miles from Boston) with my oldest simultaneously and I was struck by the myriad of similarities between both books AND YET the books are so different AND written at the same time. Coincidence? Maybe, or perhaps there is a more cosmic messages afoot?! Let’s investigate! Read more…
3rd Grade Book Club with Science Activity
Book Club for Kids: Because of Winn Dixie
Did I ever mention that if I were to choose one book as my favorite children’s book, this would be it? Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo was also a major driver in starting my blog. (Read this to my oldest when she was in 2nd grade, then handed her The Tiger Rising by same author when she was in 3rd grade. Oops. That one was too depressing!) Read more…
Best Boy Characters in Books (You’d Let Your Child Date)
Best Boys in Books to Fall in Love With
I need your help here. Please suggest any boy characters in children’s literature or young adult books that you’d like your daughter to date. Heck, you might want to date them yourself, either as your younger self or even now. That’s the nice thing about these boys — they are frozen in time but we can age them up as we please. Please comment with your suggestions and let’s grow this list! This list can also be seen as a testament to authors who create characters so real, deep, and nuanced that we fall in love with them, if not for ourselves, then for our children. And I can safely say that no one else is consumed with creating this kind of list! Read more…
Appealing Non Fiction Book: 100 Most Disgusting Things on Planet (ages 4-12)
Non-Fiction for Reluctant Boy Readers
100 Most Disgusting Things on the Planet: Prepare for the Worst by Anna Claybourne is a book that delights those with a fascination for grossness that occurs in nature. But this book is also a clever guise to get reluctant readers reading and readers of all ages engaged in life science non-fiction. This book gives equal weight to Disgusting Nature as to Disgusting Humans delving into interesting creatures as poo-covered beetles, Surinan toads that hatch their young below a layers of their mother’s skin on their backs to maggot cheese and snot. Yes, this book is hard to resist! Read more…
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