Stories revolving around wintertime featuring copious snow and cold weather plus the warmth of kindness are some of my favorite stories of all. Today I’ve got a flurry of new titles, plus a link at the end of the post …
Category: chapter/middle grade
a November jumble of favorites
My blogging has been sporadic these past months. Life has been full for me with both happy events and challenges and the blog has had to take a seat on the back burner. However I did want to pop on …
a September jumble — fantastic fiction for ages 5 thru middle-grade
September has crept up on me! It’s the beginning of my favorite season of all, a perfect, cozy season for curling up with a good book. Today’s jumble features a handful of short chapter books, plus four fiction choices for …
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juicy gems for July…a big jumble of reads!
It’s just about the midpoint in summertime school vacations. When hot weather and long days get a bit much, a nice stack of fizzy new reads is just the ticket for cooling down and filling imaginations with something new to …
a splash of summer, a celebration of AAPI…a May jumble
May is the month set apart to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) heritage and today I’ve got some superb titles to help you do just that. I’ve also got a first wash of summer-y stories as the temps …
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a fresh and lovely Springtime jumble of great reads
Today’s collection of books is a-bloom with freshness and wonder, the melody of nature, the beauty of words and cultures, with some lighthearted fiction tucked in for good measure. Here in Minnesota we’ve had a slow, chilly spring. I’m celebrating …
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a March jumble of great reads
I’m still on a bit of a blogging break which means that today I’ve got another miscellaneous jumble of titles. Each one shone out like the bright, Spring sun to me. There are *picture books *picture book biographies for Women’s …
Russia and Ukraine: windows of understanding
Like the rest of the world, my heart is devastated by the outbreak of yet another horrific war with its violent deaths and injuries, terror unleashed against peaceful citizens, conscription of human beings to destroy other human beings, panicked flight …
a jumble of good reads
Today’s post is a bit of a hodgepodge. I’ve felt the need lately to give myself a little break from my regular routine of blogging which for about 12 years now has required a fantastic number of hours to research, …
bantam-weight novels for all ages
Over the years I’ve collected several long lists of snazzy chapter books under 100 pages long which serve a wide variety of readers. As I’ve gone about gathering them, I’ve come across many gems that, slim though they may be, …
orange marmalade 