Touring Germany In Early Spring With Baby: Products To Ease Your Way
Traveling with a baby is no joke. Here are some products for spring travel to Europe to help ease your way!
Category: Asides
Meal Train Tips and Tricks: 7 Ways To Make Helping A Friend Actually Helpful
Read on for tips, tricks, and suggestions for making sure your meal train meal is actually helping your loved ones instead of unintentionally adding stress to their already stressful lives.
Wrapping Up a Year of Immersion in Newbery Medal Books
A year ago I started out to read as many Newbery Medal winning books as possible before the 100th anniversary of the award. While I didn’t end up reading as many as I thought, I did have a fabulous deep dive into amazing Children’s Literature.
An Aside: Curious Variations in Nursery Rhymes
Over the past few years as I’ve read through nursery rhymes, I’ve noticed that many of the rhymes published in the books differed from the versions I grew up reciting. And many of them also differed from their counterparts in other books. Here’s a side-by-side comparison of some of the differences.
Teal Pumpkins: More Than Just The Latest Fall Decorating Craze
Teal pumpkins are popular decorations but did you know that they symbolize a lot more for children with food allergies? Read on to find out more!
What I’ve Learned from Newbery Medal Books: A Book Report
As I’ve been reading through the Newbery Medal winners so far, I’ve found myself ruminating on a couple of questions:
1. What is it that makes a Newbery Medal winner book a “Newbery Book”? What about it made it stand out from all the other new children’s literature that same year?
2. If I were to write a children’s book following the patterns learned from these all-stars, what would it entail?
An Aside: New Year’s Resolution – Read Almost a Century’s Worth of Newbery Medal Books
The Newbery Medal award is almost a 100 years old! I decided that this amazing achievement merited a special goal…