We’ve had a good start to winter here in Minnesota with a snowy Thanksgiving and blizzards of snow up on the glorious North Shore. It’s high time to get the hot chocolate steaming and snuggle up with stories celebrating this …
Tag: easy 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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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. …
this week’s crop of ten top books
Because it’s pool time! Swimming, Swimming, lyrics from an old song, illustrated by Gary Clement published in 2015 by Groundwood Books Big, bold, sunny-day illustrations carry us along an energetic run-through of this classic children’s song. If you don’t know …
booyah! two big bunches of ace easy readers
Today I’ve got two sets of easy readers: Super Easy and Almost Ready for Chapter Books. First, I went looking especially for the easiest of easy readers. If you’ve got a Very Beginning Reader, you know how frustrating it can …
cookin’ up a batch of irresistable easy readers…a list of slightly-more-than-five
Today, I’ve got a batch of Unusually Good Books for kids at early reading levels. It can be tough to find just the right books for these guys, right? Some eager beavers tear through everything they see, making it hard …
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sugar and spice and a detective that’s nice…a list of five holiday easy readers
Gus and Grandpa and the Christmas Cookies, by Claudia Mills, pictures by Catherine Stock Gus and Grandpa are good buddies. Today they’re in Grandpa’s charming old kitchen baking Christmas cookies together. It’s a quintessential holiday scene, with snowflakes sifting down …
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a list of…five catchy books to hook those early readers
Iris and Walter, by Elissa Haden Guest, illustrated by Christine Davenier Iris is drooping. She’s a city girl, but she has just moved to the country. With one whoosh, she has left behind bustling streets, comfy front stoops where she …
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orange marmalade 