Today I am sharing picture books featuring folktales from India for kids. Part of the challenge of curating book lists of folktales from around the world is how to organize them. The continent of Asia is the most glaring example. Asia is a huge, diverse continent and there are not necessarily enough books to make…
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Picture Books for Kids
This is a collection of all of my book lists for children that feature our favorite picture books. Book lists are arranged by theme. You will find folktales from around the world, holiday books, wordless book, our best books of the year as well as titles on many other topics. Happy reading!
Favorite Children’s Books from Facebook Fans
Last week I failed to share a Monday book list. Sometimes real life overwhelms my schedule, sometimes I’m waiting on a few books to come in from the library before adding them to a list, sometimes I just need a short break. To make up for my lapse, I knew it would be fun to…
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10 Best Kids’ Books of 2013 (Mid-Year Edition)
Even though I call this list the “best kids’ books”, it’s really our favorite picture books — our best, not necessarily the critics’ best. Although, there is some overlap. Last year I created four installments of our favorite children’s books of the year (See: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4). I haven’t had a chance to…
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Paris Books for Kids {Picture Books}
Reading a few books set in Paris will get you yearning for an overseas adventure. If your children are too young to appreciate a trip to the City of Lights, I recommend curling up with a few picture books featuring croissants, baguettes, macarons and crêpes (hmm, I may be a little hungry) and taking a little…
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Using Children’s Books to Teach about Empathy and Grief
It’s so hard sometimes to talk to kids about tragedy and how to deal with tough emotions like grief. Picture books can provide a valuable entry point into conversations with young children. In the wake of the awful tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary I decided to delay the book list I had scheduled for today…
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Our Favorite Picture Books of 2012 (Part 4)
We have read so many great picture books this year and now is the time when I share with you our fourth and final list of favorite picture books published in 2012. (Note: these are not necessarily our all time favorites of the year, just the final list in the series.) We do not have…
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Halloween Picture Books About Self-Esteem
It’s easy to find Halloween picture books in the library. Just head to the holiday book section and search for the orange pumpkin stickers. For that reason, I wasn’t planning on making a Halloween picture book list. Yet, while perusing the selections and reading the books to my kids I noticed that many of the…
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Best Children’s Books of 2012 (So Far) Part 3
I’m a little bit addicted to the new book section at the library and bookstore. Since I dread December when I have to choose only 10 books as our favorites of 2012, I have come up with the convenient solution of making multiple lists over the course of the year. You can find all of…
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Favorite Picture Book Authors: Catherine Rayner
One of our favorite children’s picture book author-illustrators is the Scotland-based Catherine Rayner. I first discovered her when I read last year’s The Bear Who Shared about a wise Bear who waits for a lovely ripe fruit to fall from the tree. Her newest book, Solomon Crocodile follows a mischievous croc who is in need…
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Best Picture Books of 2012 (So Far), Part 2
So remember back in March when I told you of our Top Books of 2012? Here’s another gathering of great children’s picture books published in 2012. However, we will have to wait until December to see who make the cut for the year’s Top Ten. (You can find our Top Ten of 2011 here.) A…
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