Without searching hard at all, I can find dozens of children’s books about Claude Monet in my library. Clever, creative, gorgeous accounts, many of them. Don’t get me wrong – I love Monet’s work. I had the great joy of …
Tag: children’s nonfiction
buzzy, busy, bloomy… summer is arriving
The past few weeks in my neck of the woods I’ve been soaking up the vibrant green, cheerful birdsong, blossoming trees, singing frogs, basking turtles, and fluttering butterflies of mid-May. Today’s books flaunt the loveliness of nature, and the fascination …
seven to celebrate Spring!
Has Spring arrived at your home yet? It’s a notoriously teasing, fickle season here in Minnesota with warm weather and snow flurries dancing in and out of weeks until the full force of Springtime finally arrives. Regardless of what weather …
and still I rise…Black History Month reads
Black History is a story of rising up. Yes, it’s a history full of pain, and yet courage, resilience, creativity, strength, generational love are woven in mightily making it a tremendous source of insight and inspiration. I have learned so …
icier, dicier adventures!
It’s Round Two of icy adventures and today we have upped the Dangerously-Insane scale by about 10,000 notches! (Okay, Tom Crean definitely was on dangerously-insane adventures, too. You can find his story and other icy adventures in Tuesday’s post.) Recently …
journeys far and near…gorgeous nonfiction that takes us new places
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 …
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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 …