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2024 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Nonfiction
I will forever implore readers to try nonfiction because children’s nonfiction has changed drastically in the last 20-30 years. I remember growing up that nonfiction was extremely dry, text heavy, and if you were lucky you’d get a few pen and ink drawings. Now, nonfiction is engaging and accessible for…
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Top Ten Tuesday: April Showers
Today is a fitting Top Ten Tuesday theme for the beginning of April – April Showers! So today, I’m sharing ten books with raindrops on the cover. And what I love about this is that each cover is so different and I love that I get to share all of…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Movie and TV Shows That Would Have Made Amazing Books
It’s Tuesday and that means there’s another Top Ten Tuesday topic to bring you. This week, I’m breaking down some movies I think would’ve made amazing books. Unsurprisingly, many movies I watch were already booked before they got turned into movies. But today, I’m going to share with you some…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Spring 2024 TBR
Oh my goodness! There are some big names publishing middle grade titles this spring. And yes, some of these books have already been published in early March, but I couldn’t not share them with you today – they’re some of the books I’m most excited to read this spring! I’m…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’m Worried I Might Not Love as Much the Second Time Around
I was definitely a kid who re-read a lot when I was growing up! I read a lot of my books over and over again as a kid – especially the American Girl series books we had. And I’d often check out the same titles from the library multiple times.…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Things I’ve Googled Thanks to a Book
As I was thinking about this Top Ten Tuesday theme, I realized that I don’t Google a lot when I’m reading. And I think that’s mostly because I tend to read a lot of contemporary romance and lighter reads and not so much heavy/research-oriented books. I say that at all…
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12 Best YA Historical Fiction
Since I was young, I’ve always loved historical fiction and read a lot of it growing up. It can be more difficult to find YA historical fiction as much of YA leans toward fantasy/science fiction and realistic fiction. But, I’ve pulled together a list of titles from backlist to recently…
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9 Books All About National Parks
I’m traveling this week and although I didn’t make it up to Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, I will be headed to Rocky Mountain National Park later this week! I also just got back from Mammoth Cave National Park a few weeks ago. And so, with the popularity of…
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2023 Blogging A to Z: Intellectual
For today’s adjective, I wanted to share some nonfiction titles for kids and teens who soak up information like a sponge. Fiction isn’t always the right option for kids, they may become readers because they want to learn about real-life events, animals, people, and more. Today’s list is (almost) completely…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Enjoyed, but Have Never Mentioned On My Blog
This was such a hard theme this week! I talk about most of the books I read on my blog! So finding books that I haven’t mentioned before was almost impossible. Today, I decided to focus on sharing some of the great nonfiction titles I’ve read. Many of them written…
