• Reviews

    #blogbookaday: Mama’s Kisses

    Summary:  “It’s bedtime in the jungle, but baby panda, elephant, orangutan, and leopard are nowhere to be found. Their mamas set out to look for their wayward little ones, calling them to bed with a soft lullaby. But look! The baby animals are crawling, creeping, hiding, and giggling, playfully staying just…

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    #blogbookaday: If I Were a Kangaroo

    Summary:  “If I were a kangaroo, I’d pick you up and carry you In my pocket, sleepyhead, And hop you gently off to bed.  It’s time for sleep, and this fun-to-read rhyming tale envisions the bedtime rituals of animals from whales to otters, squirrels to gorillas. So curl up, imagine your…

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    #blogbookaday: Nothing Can Frighten a Bear

    Summary:  “Daddy Bear insists he’s the scariest creature in the forest — didn’t you know that nothing can frighten a bear? When a noise in the night awakens Baby Bear, he starts to believe maybe there is something scarier out there than Daddy Bear. The bears set out to investigate. But as the…

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    #blogbookaday: Nature’s Lullaby Fills the Night

    Summary:  “Night falls, and the world sings a lullaby in this beautifully imagined picture book. The lush illustrations and gentle, rhyming text will lull young readers to sleep. Shh—listen. Can you hear the quiet, loving sounds of the nighttime world? From moths fluttering their powdery wings, to a nightingale’s sweet trills,…

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    #blogbookaday: Goodnight, Little Bot

    Summary:  ““Little Bot, it’s time for bed. Let’s get ready, sleepyhead.”  A sweet goodnight story with a unique hero. Even little robots need their rest—and their parents tuck them in just like human mommies and daddies do. It doesn’t matter if young bots slip on their pjs over power packs and…

  • Reviews

    Picture Book Month: Fathers

    If you’re looking for a different story about fathers, then this is it! I loved this adorable story of love told by a father to his child about the significant events in his life that led him to get the tattoos he has. The child asks about in a familiar…

  • Reviews

    Picture Book Month: Storms & Typhoons

    If you’re looking for the most adorable stormy to read to your scared little ones. Look no further than – Stormy Night by Salina Yoon. I first fell in love with Salina’s work after reading her book Penguin & Pinecone and I was hooked. This is a sweet story of a little…

  • Reviews

    Book Review: Brobot Bedtime

    Brobot Bedtime by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen and illustrated by Scott Campbell is the adorable story of three robot brothers who are having trouble falling asleep, well one brobot is having trouble sleeping causing the other two brothers to try and help fall asleep before Mommybot comes back into their bedroom. Poor…

  • Activities

    Stuffy Sleepover

    Tonight is our stuffed animal sleepover for children ages 3 – 6 and their stuffies!  We’ve done events like this before and we’ve gotten fairly good at making the plans and being ready for every possible scenario.  I’m going to go through each step of our process, in case you haven’t…