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Children’s Book Club: ‘Llama Llama Misses Mama’

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

horse waiting in a Gloucester meadow

Let’s get all up in our feelings with Llama LLama, off to school without his mama. Join us for an Anna Dewdney Children’s Book Club.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

Children’s Book Club: ‘The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!’

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

goat in the middle of the road

Read a fractured fairy tale about the three little pigs — from the wolf’s perspective. He was framed. (Wolf’s honor!)

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories, Fairytales

Children’s Book Club: Frog and Toad series

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Ring for Custodian Humorous Castle for Frog and Toad Are Friends

Meet best friends, Frog and Toad, in the award-winning ‘Frog and Toad Are Friends’ series by Arnold Lobel. Join us for Children’s Book Club!

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

Children’s Book Club: ‘Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe’

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

Alvord Desert at dawn

For pride month we read Benjamin Alire Sáenz’s “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe.” Join our YA Children’s Book Club.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, book reviews, Children's Book Club

Children’s Book Club: ‘Knuffle Bunny’

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

toddler child

Do you love toddlers, even in the throes of rage? Then you’ll love Trixie and “Knuffle Bunny” by Mo Willems. Join us for Children’s Book Club.

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

Reading Generously: The Great Gatsby Poetry

By Megan Willome 9 Comments

Pontiac GTO

In her new edition, Tania Runyan says ‘The Great Gatsby’ might as well be poetry. Megan Willome puts that assertion to the poetic test.

Filed Under: Blog, book reviews, Classic Books, Reading Generously, The Great Gatsby

Children’s Book Club: ‘Dry’ by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

Wooden Rubber Stamp of Handwriting Craft Supplies

What do you do when the tap goes dry? Join our Children’s Book Club for a YA climate change thriller, “Dry.”

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Poetic Earth Month

Children’s Book Club: ‘And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon’

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

series of green dunes

Why learn nursery rhymes? For the jokes! Join our Children’s Book Club as we read “And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon.”

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Children's Book Club, Children's Poetry, Children's Stories, Mother Goose

Children’s Book Club: ‘Hello Numbers! What Can You Do?’

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

glowing castle at night

Strap on your space pod and zoom beyond counting as our Children’s Book Club reads “Hello Numbers! What Can You Do?”

Filed Under: Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Poetry, Math-Science-Technology

Poetry Prompt: Poems of Experience

By Callie Feyen 10 Comments

Let your Took side win, and follow it on an adventure.

“The Hobbit” is more than a book for children. Callie Feyen considers how to learn from Bilbo and write poems of experience.

Filed Under: Blog, Books, Living, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, Romeo and Juliet, Tolkien, writer's group resources, Writing, writing prompt, writing prompts

Children’s Book Club: ‘Katy and the Big Snow’

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

snow storm Mt. Fuji

Read “Katie and the Big Snow” by Virginia Lee Burton, a story of a snow plow named Katie that makes life a little easier during a crisis.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

Children’s Book Club: ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

super delicious red velvet cupcakes for Christmas

All the Grinch wanted for Christmas was singing. He just didn’t know it. We discuss the magic of song in our holiday Children’s Book Club.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories, Christmas Poems

Children’s Book Club: ‘Saturday’ by Oge Mora

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Meet a mother with strong emotions. This month’s Children’s Book Club discusses ‘Saturday’ by Oge Mora, and a mom who feels all the feels.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

Children’s Book Club: ‘Just Beyond: The Scare School’

By Megan Willome 2 Comments

R.L. Stine

It’s almost Halloween, and yesterday was R.L. Stine’s birthday. Megan Willome celebrates with a scary graphic novel for Children’s Book Club.

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

Children’s Book Club: ‘Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story’

By Megan Willome 7 Comments

Nora Raleigh Baskin

9/11 began with a perfect blue sky. Join author Megan Willome as she reads ‘Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story’ for this month’s Children’s Book Club.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, book club, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club

Children’s Book Club: ‘Sure As Sunrise,’ Bruh Rabbit stories

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

Sure As Sunrise

The Bruh Rabbit stories are as contemporary as ever. Join author Megan Willome as she revisits these tales for Children’s Book Club, using the contemporary retelling ‘Sure As Sunrise.’

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories, Reading and Books

Children’s Book Club: ‘Wave’

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Suzy Lee

Being brave sometimes means getting wet. But in Suzy Lee’s ‘Wave,’ being brave also brings gifts that last a lifetime. Join us for our Children’s Book Club.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories, Sea Poems

Children’s Book Club: ‘The Runaway Bunny’

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Zac Brown

For this month’s Children’s Book Club, we read Margaret Wise Brown’s classic picture book ‘The Runaway Bunny,’ featuring a song by the Zac Brown Band.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories

Children’s Book Club: ‘The Poet X’ by Elizabeth Acevedo

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

spoken word poetry

For this month’s Children’s Book Club, author Megan Willome discusses the power of spoken word poetry to tell a story in a YA novel by Elizabeth Acevedo.

Filed Under: A Story in Every Soul, book reviews, Children's Authors, Children's Book Club, Poets, Spoken Word Poems

Children’s Book Club: ‘Fear the Bunny’

By Megan Willome 6 Comments

William Blake

Join author Megan Willome for Children’s Book Club, in which she learns why bunnies are way scarier than tigers in ‘Fear the Bunny.’ (This picture book not approved by William Blake.)

Filed Under: Animal Poems, Blog, Children's Book Club, Children's Stories, Classic Poetry

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