There’s nothing sweeter than reading books about love and enjoying a little treat afterwards! If you’re looking for some fun activity ideas or treats to pair with a Valentine’s Day Celebration check out Children’s Valentine’s Day Picture Book recommendations. I love to check out library books on a theme for Madeline. Logan is a little bit over that …
My friend Aggie and I both enjoy reading and in the past have often shared book recommendations. Recently she mentioned that she had checked to see if I had posted any book suggestions recently. I admit, I’ve gotten a little bit out of the habit of not just reading but also sharing what I’m reading …
I never knew that the post If You Liked The Hunger Games: 5 Other Dystopian Novels to Try would be so popular. Now, 9 months later everyone has one question: What else should I read? Give me more books like The Hunger Games to read! You all have loved those 5 recommendations and are ready …
Last time we went to the library we check out a whole stack of St. Patrick’s Day themed books – the perfect theme for March. The kids had fun learning about Leprechauns and traditional Irish Folklore, which was perfect for our Geography obsessed guy! Here are our book suggestions based on what our library had …
We’ve checked out books about Christmas. Books about Snow. Valentine’s Day books. Stacks and stacks of Geography Books. Now what? Books about BOOKS, of course. After watching this video trailer for the book It’s a Book, by Lane Smith I was inspired to look for more books about books to read with the kids. We …
For the last few months we’ve been checking our library books out in batches on a theme. It has been fun to read several different books each week on a certain topic of choice. Lately, that topic has been SNOW. About a month ago snow was regularly appearing in our forecast for several weeks. We …
Reflecting back on the past year, I see that 2011 was full of books in my house, as you can probably see. Weekly trips to the library, lots of hours traveling, late nights in bed glued to a book. In case you’d like some book recommendations, I thought I’d share with you what I read …
The day the calender flipped to December I was on our library’s website ready to reserve some new Christmas picture books for us to enjoy this season. We have a few tried and true favorites of our own, like Madeline’s Christmas, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and The Polar Express, but it’s always great to …
This year I’ve been hooked on Young Adult books. Particularly of the dystopian novels variety. Blame it on The Hunger Games. After devouring the trilogy in less than a week, and far too many very late nights I had one thing on my mind: Where can I get more? I want more books like The …
The library is one of my favorite free entertainment places to go with the kids. To simplify the task of checking out books, I usually look books up in advance and put them on hold using the library’s online catalog to make it easier for me to check out the books I need. More than …
