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2024 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Imaginative
Imagination is a gift once must have when writing and these authors are full of it. With stories of games, zombies, spies, history brought to life, and an overnight in Ikea, the imagination knows no bounds! I enjoy creating lists such as this one when you pull together books that…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Springtime Seeds
This post may contain affiliate links, which means I’ll receive a commission if you purchase through my links, at no extra cost to you. Please read the full disclosure for more information. Springtime Seeds From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons With simple language and bright illustrations, non-fiction master Gail Gibbons introduces…
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2024 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Historical Fiction
Historical fiction has always been one of my favorite genres. I love learning and with historical fiction the storytelling aspect makes me enjoy it all the more. I often find myself diving into further research about a time period after having read a book set during it. I’ve been really…
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Storytime Theme: Turtles
I’m always surprised when I come across another storytime theme that I’ve never done before! And this one is most surprising as we have a pet turtle in our library. And he’s the most popular part of the library, by far. So, in honor of Tera, our turtle, here is…
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2024 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Girl Characters
This might look a little similar to a post from last week, just with female characters, rather than male. If you didn’t get a chance to see last week’s post, make sure you stop by for 12 additional adventure titles that you might enjoy. But, I’ll reiterate what I said…
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2024 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Fantasy
While dragons got their very own post, you can’t very well believe that I wouldn’t share a whole list of fantasy titles as well. And yes, there are more dragons, but they don’t all have dragons, I promise. While fantasy titles aren’t my go-to books, I still tend to enjoy…
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2024 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Easy Readers
There are countless easy readers for children looking to begin reading independently. In fact, it’s probably the most checked out collection in my library. And let me tell you, these books are well-loved. We just recently had to repurchase many new copies of old favorites so they had a chance…
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Look & Find Books for Kids
I remember as a kid pouring over our tattered copy of Where’s Waldo? It was so fun looking for Waldo, his friends, and all the things he lost among the pages. As I was working on this post, I found out that Where’s Waldo? is a British import that’s actually…
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2024 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Dragons
There is absolutely no way that I could create 26 book lists about adventures without highlighting dragons in at least one of the lists. And there are plenty more dragon books out there, but I limited myself to twelve and was able to pull from picture books, chapter books, middle…
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Storytime Theme: Treehouses
When I first thought of this lesson plan, I was super excited! I have fond memories of the treehouse my dad built for us when we were kids. It was just a simple platform among the trees in the backyard with a ladder to climb up to the top. We…
