“When will the germs go away?” four-year-old Lilly asks me. My granddaughter has begun to express anxiety about COVID 19, and concern
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Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about how young children (3-6-years-old) are processing the stay-at-home quarantine and COVID 19. Children of this age group often exhibit magical thinking about the world and their place in it, and I imagine there are many stories you can share about the little ones
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Recently, my granddaughter Lilly came to visit – it was early on in the “self-quarantine” process for COVID 19, so we
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(Reading with my grandmother and sister, circa 1952)
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Dear Readers,
Both of my granddaughters, Lilly and Stassi, are finishing up the second half of preschool. Soon they will be kindergartners! I’d like to share with
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Dear Readers,
It is with great pride that I present my first illustrated picture book!
I wrote and illustrated this picture book with Christian Faith Publishing. I
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Every semester, I encourage my students in the Master of Science in Teaching Literacy Program to increase their personal consumption of children’s and young adult literature. I tell them, that to teach readers and writers, they must be readers and writers themselves. I add that it helps to know
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I think it’s most appropriate to share a picture book that I found by chance at a Scholastic Book Fair. It’s entitled The Magician’s Hat. I love the story behind the story! Malcolm Mitchell, a top wide receiver for the New England Patriots, is
…I just learned that Hello, Lighthouse won the 2019 Caldecott Award! I reviewed it in one of my previous posts.
Unfortunately, the winner of the Newbery Award was not even on my radar screen! I have ordered it today! It’s entitled
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