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: early readers
popping with pictures!… graphic-novel style books for beginning readers
Easy-to-read kids’ books have changed enormously over the years. It makes me so happy to see the range of styles and genres available now to new readers. One of the exciting recent additions is graphic-novel style books — books employing …
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pint sized Poirots
Today I’ve got two delightful mysteries for the youngest of sleuths. The first one took me quite by surprise! I picked it up from my hold shelf at the library and the size and heft of it tricked me into …
merry polar bear cookies to you!
Today I’m revisiting a post I wrote seven years ago, full of cookies and mayhem. Then I’ll sign out until after the holidays. My kids are coming home and I’m looking forward to this time together, precious beyond words. …
new fiction faves for new readers to teens…plus a give-away!
I’ve got seven great new reads today. I’ll list them in order of difficulty with some snappy early readers coming first and a Mystery Give-Away at the end! Barkus, written by Patricia MacLachlan, illustrated by Marc Boutavant published in 2017 …
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the challenge: chapter books under 100 pages
As promised, here’s my list of the best under-100-pages chapter books I’ve read in the past months. Be sure to check the Title index for 50 more great easy chapter books — some of my all-time favorites are already there! I’ve tried …
ferreting out short chapter books for you and yours
Over the last 5 months, I have been reading stacks upon stacks of short chapter books. Thousands of pages later, I am ready to bring you a handy list, although what I arrived at is slightly different than where I …
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what is all this juice and all this joy?…books to welcome Spring
My stack of books today glows budding-leaf green and robin’s-egg blue. Oh, what is as cheery and hopeful as spring? Soak up some gladness with these books, bursting with life, growth and new beginnings. What Will Grow? written by Jennifer Ward, …
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cold hands, warm hearts…five icy tales warm with love
Yes, winter is here. The days are cold and dark. But the warmth of human kindness goes with wintertime, hand in glove, in today’s wonderful stories. The Branch, written by Mireille Messier, illustrated by Pierre Pratt published in 2016 by …
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kaboom! a blast of books for America’s birthday!
Independence Day celebrations are about to blast off across the U.S.A. Here’s a star-spangled set of books to celebrate with! I’ll begin with a pair of titles on the rich gift of immigrants to our nation as I feel so …
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orange marmalade 