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Teach It: How Do They Tell a Story? First, You Listen

By Callie Feyen 18 Comments

Literacy specialist Callie Feyen says the best way to help children write is first to listen.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Stories, Emotional Literacy, Literacy for Life, Literacy Starts With Love, Play, Teach Reading, writing prompt, writing prompts

Children’s Book Club: “Days of the Blackbird”

By Megan Willome 11 Comments

How do we survive the coldest days of winter? With a blackbird! Join us as we read Tomie dePaola’s “Days of the Blackbird” with Megan Willome as our guide.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, book reviews, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

Children’s Book Club: “The Tin Forest”

By Megan Willome 26 Comments

From garbage, hope can grow — a forest filled with toucans, tree frogs, and tigers. Join us as we read “The Tin Forest ” with Megan Willome as our guide.

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Finding Inspiration, nature-deficit disorder, Read, Read for Fun, Reading and Books

Children’s Book Club: “Eggday”

By Megan Willome 9 Comments

A pig, a horse, and a goat can’t win a best egg competition? Can they? Megan Willome leads a discussion about Joyce Dunbar’s “Eggday.”

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

Reading in the Wild: October’s Pages

By Megan Willome 13 Comments

Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your October pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her October good reads.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Children's Authors, Classic Books, Fiction, Literacy for Life, Reading in the Wild

Put a Little Song in Your Heart—with Latino Nursery Rhymes from Canticos

By Megan Willome 9 Comments

Put a little song—and a little Spanish—in your heart with these books based on Latino nursery rhymes from Canticos.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Stories, Interviews, Learn to Read, Literacy for Life, Literacy Starts With Love, Read for Fun

Children’s Book Club: “One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale”

By Megan Willome 16 Comments

Math can be beautiful, especially with tigers and elephants and gold. Join us as we read ‘One Grain of Rice’ with Megan Willome as our guide. Plus, get more great math title recommendations!

Filed Under: Blog, book club, children, Children's Authors, Children's Stories, Chocolate, Math-Science-Technology

Reading in the Wild: August’s pages

By Megan Willome 25 Comments

Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your August pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her August goodreads.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, book reviews, Children's Authors, Fiction, Literacy for Life, Literacy Starts With Love, Reading in the Wild

Children’s Book Club: “The Buffalo Storm”

By Megan Willome 39 Comments

Literacy starts with children’s books. Join the inaugural edition of our children’s book club as we read ‘The Buffalo Storm’ with Megan Willome as our guide.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories, Literacy, Literacy for Life, Literacy Starts With Love, Read for Fun

The Wild 100 Summer Book Challenge

By Callie Feyen 15 Comments

What do you think is beautiful? What is wild about the color yellow? Join Callie Feyen and her kids in a summer challenge to read 100 books and find out.

Filed Under: Blog, children, Children's Activities, Children's Authors, Children's Stories, Literacy

The Grandfather Stories: Goldilocks and the Three Brothers

By Glynn Young 11 Comments

Winne the Pooh Grandfather Stories

Reading to our grandsons has taught us that the “social time” of reading is just as important as the reading itself — reading tells them they matter.

Filed Under: article, Childhood Poems, children, Children's Activities, Children's Authors, Children's Poetry, Children's Stories, Fairy Tale Poems, Fairytales

Memoir Notebook: Kate DiCamillo’s Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech

By Kate DiCamillo 15 Comments

Kate DiCamillo Newberry Acceptance Speech Rope Ladder

Kate DiCamillo listened to the approaching siren and thought it was the first time in her life she had heard that sound and not wondered who it was for.

Filed Under: Beautiful Words, Blog, Books, Children's Authors, Memoir Notebook

Strolling through Watership Down: Richard Adams

By Heather Eure 4 Comments

A Stroll through the Downs: Richard Adams

Meeting the author of a favorite childhood book, Watership Down, a young Heather Eure is inspired in her own quest to be a writer.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Stories, Classic Books

Children’s Books: 14 Reasons The Tale of Peter Rabbit Should Be Banned

By Will Willingham

children's books peter rabbit

Beatrix Potter’s ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ is a disturbing book. Here are 14 tongue-in-cheek reasons it should be banned.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Stories

Literary Tour: New York Public Library Children’s Book Exhibit

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

New York Public Library Goodnight Moon

Just in time for Children’s Book Week, we visit the children’s book exhibit, The ABC of It, at the New York Public Library.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Children's Authors, Children's Stories, Libraries, Literary Tour

Literary Birthdays: C.S. Lewis, Louisa May Alcott, Madeleine L’Engle

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton 10 Comments

birthday c.s. lewis louisa may alcott madeleine l'engle

C. S. Lewis shares a birthday with beloved authors Madeleine L’Engle and Louisa May Alcott. Kimberlee Conway Ireton gives tribute to the three.

Filed Under: Children's Authors, Literary Birthdays

Dr. Seuss: Embracing the Creatures Within

By L.L. Barkat 7 Comments

dr seuss

What would you do if you were voted Least Likely to Succeed? This is what Dr. Suess did.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Getting Published

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