From the daily archives:
Wow, what a week! It has been a joy to write about a topic that I feel so passionately about. I know I’ve only covered the surface but sadly the week has come to an end. I must say goodbye for now to the Growing Readers series. My favorite part of the week has been [...]
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Guest Blogger: Patti Gibbons Reading with children is an amazing way to communicate love to them. That is the motivation, born of times spent being read to in my own childhood as well as reading to my own little ones, that caused me to introduce a pile of favorite storybooks to the free-choice activities at [...]
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I am an outspoken fan of the public library. I visit my library weekly. It is fulfilling to walk into the library empty handed and walk out an hour later with my arms stacked chest high with books. I’m not a big shopper but I imagine the feeling is similar to the rush felt by [...]
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When I think of being read to at an early age, from Dr. Seuss to Little House on the Prairie, I think of my dad. So when I decided to devote an entire week of my blog to reading, he was the first person that I contacted and asked to be a guest blogger. Despite [...]
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Lullabies are often the first stories that our children are exposed to as infants. As our children grow into toddlers and preschoolers they graduate to nursery rhymes complete with finger plays and body motions. As parents we love the familiarity of the tunes that we grew up with but we don’t always remember the important [...]
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