Halloween was always a much-anticipated holiday for me and for my kids. Carving pumpkins, inventing costumes, collecting sacks full of candy from friendly neighbors, then settling in for The Great Candy Swap — “I’ll give you 10 Laffy Taffies for …
Tag: wordless books
ten for heading to the beach
This week — ten gracefully-aging books celebrating summer at the beach. a beloved Frank Asch favorite Sand Cake, written and illustrated by Frank Asch originally published in 1978; this edition 2015 by Aladdin One of my favorites from when my …
Ten Top Books of the Week
It’s full-on summer. Time once again for me to change-up my blogging for a few months so I can soak up all this green-ness and daylight…and enjoy time with a couple of my children home from college. This summer I’m …
what came first? …a gorgeous book to chat about with preschoolers
Before After, by Anne-Margot Ramstein and Matthias Arégui published in France, 2013 first US edition 2014 by Candlewick Press I’ll just start right off and say: I am utterly smitten with this book! (I may have even hugged it.) I …
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searching for someplace else…a sweet assortment of surprising expeditions
Vanilla Ice Cream, written and illustrated by Bob Graham published in 2014 by Candlewick Press What do a curious sparrow in hot, spicy, India and a small child in sunny Australia have to do with one another? With the flutter …
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on a galaxy far, far away… a list of five interplanetary messages for tiny earthlings
Mr. Wuffles, a nearly-wordless book by David Wiesner Mr. Wuffles is a handsome cat who disdains all the sorry little toys his owner buys for his amusement. Bor-ring, his regal gait says as he pads past them all… …until he …
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a list of…five books you don’t actually read
Art & Max, illustrations, and a few words!, by David Wiesner All five books today are brilliant stories, carried along by pictures rather than words. The first one is about a sober-minded artist and walking-disaster friend. So…Art is an artistic …
orange marmalade 