Kinder Book Club: Achoo – Good Manners Can be Contagious
Here’s a funny little book with a good lesson for kids and adults alike. The children get a primer on basic manners – no chewing with your mouth full, no name calling, etc. Meanwhile us parents get a good reminder to be kind with...
Kinder Book Club: One Hen, How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference
Looking to inspire your kids with the concept of micro-lending?
Here is a book that beautifully illustrates how much good just a few dollars can do. One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference by Katie Smith Milway is helping me prepare...
Help the Hungry: Our Month in Review
If you follow us on Facebook (and if not, please do!) or Twitter (give it a try!), then already know quite about about Help the Hungry Month. During the feast-focused month of November, my family, and perhaps a your as well, has put hunger in...
Kinder Book Club: Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen
At six and four years old, my daughters seem too young for work in a soup kitchen. Luckily, Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen by Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan is the next best thing and the perfect addition to the waning days of Help the Hungry Month.
A...
Kinder Book Club & Help the Hungry Week 1 Review
Our family has completed the first week of Help the Hunger month, and it has inspired me to dig up a book I raved about last year.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Buddha at Bedtime: Tales of Love and Wisdom for you to...
Kinder Book Club: The Next Place
For any child struggling with the idea of death or, in fact, anyone of any age dealing with the loss of a loved one, The Next Place by Warren Hanson offers a wonderfully poetic starting place.
Hanson’s simple lyrics provide a vivid, if...
Kinder Book Club: If Everybody Did
Congratulations to last week’s contest winner! Keep an eye out for our next contest, coming soon! Until then, spend some time with your child reading If Everybody Did by Jo Ann Stover.
The classic book features silly black and white pictures...
Back to School with Full Buckets
Last week we trekked to the library and snagged Have you Filled a Bucket Today: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids by Carl Mcleod.
By now, both Miss First-Grade and I feel pretty well prepared for the pending return to school. She is back on...
Kinder Book Club: Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun
Just in time for the new school year, and the attendant social pressures, I stumbled across another great book.
Check out Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun: Having the Courage to be Who You Are by Maria Dismondy (author) and Kimberly Shaw-Peterson...
Kinder Book Club: Duck for President
If you are looking for a fun way to bring the presidential election into your child’s life, pick up a copy of Doreen Cronin’s Duck for President.
Cronin is one of those rare and wonderful to discover authors who can make big ideas...
