We’re working through those book ideas and enjoying ourselves thoroughly! I’ve decided to report on that reading in a series of quick reviews, so perhaps some of you can benefit from our exploration as well. Bruce Coville, The Dragon of Doom (2003), The Weeping Werewolf (2004), The Evil Elves (2004), and The Mischief Monster (2007) the [...]
Noah loves to help us cook, and Eric recently had a very good idea: Noah might enjoy using a cookbook designed for him, a children’s cookbook. We found a few vegetarian cookbooks for younger cooks in our public library system and requested them. The first to arrive was Mollie Katzen’s Salad People and More Real [...]
A little while ago, I asked you–and a bunch of librarians in another online community I frequent–for chapter book ideas. Noah’s four, not yet reading and certainly not the target age for most chapter books, but he really likes for us to read him more extended (and more complex) narratives. He’s ready for very-few-or-no pictures. [...]
Joanna Cole and Bruce Degan’s Magic School Bus books weren’t part of my childhood. So I was surprised at the universal familiarity and popularity of these books (and particularly of the TV show of the same title) when I taught The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor in my college-level children’s literature course this [...]
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links for thought, January & February 2011
“Breastfeeding in Public: What’s the Big Deal?” from Shannon at Seagull Fountain: In the hierarchy of things that will make both mother and baby happy and healthy, mom’s sanity trumps breastfeeding, every single time. This I am sure of, no matter who I’m talking to. Luckily, most of the time, as with everything related to mothering, what’s [...]