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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Sports
It’s time to get a move on, so let’s talk sports! Today’s 2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge post is all about sports, and not just your typical baseball, basketball, and soccer, but dance, yoga, and rowing. Plus, more fun statistics and facts that you’ll ever know what to do…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Surprised Me
I’m so interested in this week’s theme because it can go in so many different directions! Did the plot or characters surprise you, where you surprised by the story because it didn’t match what you thought it was about, did it have an unreliable narrator? Or did you go a…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Religion
While people may choose to worship in many different ways with many different types of holidays, festivals, and celebrations, the more I learn about the major holidays of the world, the more I’m reminded that we are more similar than we are different. And I think kids can benefit from…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Quotations
The Letter Q is not an easy letter in the challenge and I definitely struggle every year to come up with a theme for the Letter Q. So, for today’s challenge post, I’m sharing books full of quotations (and some with affirmations as well!) I love the idea of creating…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Plants
There are some absolutely beautiful nonfiction books about plants, flowers, and trees. I know it’s not hard to create beautiful books about nature, but these will encourage kids to take their time pouring over the details of the illustrations. Whether your kids love getting dirty in the yard or prefer…
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Kate DiCamillo Read Alikes
Have you ever read an autor’s work and felt like you could read just about anything they ever write again? That’s how I feel about Kate DiCamillo. She’s a two-time Newbery Medal winner and her work ranges from out-of-this-world hysterical, to heartfelt and emotional. She has a way with words…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Outer Space
We’re heading a little further away with this book list – among the stars! While I’ve never been interested in the technology side of outer space – rockets, satellites, astronauts, I do love looking at the stars. Where I live now has entirely too much light pollution to see anything…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Narrative Nonfiction
Can you believe we’ve tipped into the second half of the alphabet already? It’s been a whirlwind of blogging over the past few weeks and I feel like after ten years of this challenge, I’ve figured out a lot of the logistics, I just need to find more time in…
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2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Maps
In a world that travels by Apples Maps, Google Maps, and Waze, I miss the good old days of opening up the road atlas and tracing the route from point a to point b. I grew up in a time where AAA TripTiks were printed and you spent the trip…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Unpopular Bookish Opinions
Today’s list came together pretty quickly because apparently I have a lot of opinions about books! Whether they’re unpopular is probably more up to debate. But, I bet some of these opinions are more likely to be unpopular with the general population, whereas I can bet that the bookish world…
