Picture Books
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Poetry Friday: Land of Counterpane
My youngest is sick today. This means missing our last homeschool co-op of the year, a birthday party this afternoon, and possibly Presentation Day tomorrow. She has a knack for falling ill on…
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Look…
It might not look like much to you. Dirt, with bits of feeble green poking through. But a week and two days ago, it looked like this: and this: and this: A few…
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The week in read-alouds: Bill Peet
This week, we’ve been revisiting a favorite author. Bill Peet was the first writer my oldest daughter chose independently as a favorite, because his stories are a combination of funny and warm-hearted, and…
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Read Aloud Thursday: The Silver Pony
I asked my daughters for their votes on the question of what their favorite read-alouds lately have been. Instantly, my third-grader replied, “The Book of Three. Because it’s so adventurous. But I feel…
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Dangerous Journey
“It seems just terrible that it doesn’t have a medal.” So said my 8-year-old, who prizes any book with an embossed gold medal on the cover, as we neared the end of this…
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Lafcadio
Question: Is it a success or a failure when my five-year-old bursts into tears at the end of a book? I should add that they weren’t tears of disappointment that the story was…
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Resolving power
A phrase caught my attention while reading Soaring with the Wind to my daughters. “Resolving power is the ability to focus on things far away. A bald eagle has eight times more resolving…
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Whitefoot
Whitefoot: A Story from the Center of the World is Wendell Berry’s first foray into children’s books. Davis TeSelle’s wonderfully delicate and detailed illustrations in black and white enhance the tale. Judging from…
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Honoring Dr. King
This picture book was a good introduction for my girls to Martin Luther King. It’s geared toward young children; there’s even an introductory heads-up to parents reading to preschoolers that the book states…
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Raising Readers
I joked on another blog recently that I was raising readers the old-fashioned way: by making sure they have nothing else to do but read. It’s somewhat true; we aren’t awash in extra-curricular…