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    2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Unexplained

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    Another challenging letter, but this year I was able to pull together a fun list of books about unexplained phenomena. You know, things like Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, dragons, ghosts, witches, and more! Much of this list focuses on cryptozoology or “the study of unknown, legendary or extinct animals…

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    Books for Multilingual Kids

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    While sharing the same language often makes communication easier for everyone, kids don’t always need words to communicate and these nine picture books prove it! There are lots of families who speak more than one language, often choosing to speak a language other than English at home. And when kids…

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    2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Technology

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    It’s time to talk technology and while today’s theme could really go in almost any direction, I decided to try and take it in a wide variety of ways so as to gather a little something for everyone! We’ve got robotics, engineering, medical technology, video games, and so much more!…

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    2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Sports

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    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

    Top Ten Tuesday

    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

    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

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    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…