Open these books… …and head out on a journey. Maybe around the world. Maybe into outer space. Maybe into a cathedral. Five journeys full of wonder and fascination — for all ages — today! Chicken Talk Around the World, written …
Tag: children’s nonfiction

a fiesta of fine folks
Today’s post is the last of my biography bonanza. I hope you’ve found lots of interesting options to add sparkle your reading stacks and enrich your lives. If you’ve missed the earlier posts, you’ll find them here, here, here, and …

mingle with more good humans!
Today marks the fourth week of my biography focus and these heroic personalities were an absolute delight for me to discover. You can backtrack and meet the folks introduced earlier via the posts here, here, and here. Perkin’s Perfect Purple: …

a parade of people!
Welcome to this week’s parade of people. Besides the outstanding folks we’re meeting today, you can find earlier installments of weekly biographies here and here. Dark Was the Night: Blind Willie Johnson’s Journey to the Stars written by Gary Golio, …

the biography bonanza continues!
Today’s is the second post of my weekly biography blitz. Be sure to catch up with the amazing people we met last week as well as mingling with today’s crew. Mornings with Monet, written by Barb Rosenstock, illustrated by Mary …

a world-ful of interesting folks!
Every March I enjoy the opportunity to read and share excellent biographies of women from around the world and across time who have been influential in an extraordinary variety of ways. And every February my Black History posts feature powerful …
birds on the wing; nesting things… two gorgeous new books
I’ve been looking at a lot of new-in-2015 picture books lately and these two are truly some of the most dramatically beautiful I’ve seen thus far. Beautiful Birds, text by Jean Roussen, illustrations by Emmanuelle Walker published in 2015 by Flying Eye …
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