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Top Ten Tuesday: Books on My Winter 2024-2025 To-Read List
Today’s list includes a host of middle grade titles all being released at the beginning of 2025. With lots of great authors behind these books, I can’t wait to get my hands on them! And with only a few more weeks to the new year, do you have the first…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books to Read During a Storm
For today’s Top Ten Tuesday theme, I decided to select some middle grade books that have a winter setting. While not all of these titles are set during a storm, I feel like curling up with anyone of these books during a winter storm would be the perfect companion. I…
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Storytime Theme: Hot & Cold
Today is a storytime lesson plan all about opposites and it’s a perfect one for today as the temperature has plummeted where I live and it’s been quite cold over the past few days. I’m remembering again why I dislike the winter – I hate being cold! But, this frigid…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Winter Holidays in Picture Books
It’s another freebie week! And I’m excited to share this very brief list of picture books about winter holidays from St. Lucia Day (inspired) to Lunar New Year and so many in between! I’m going to caveat this list to say that this is just one depiction of the holidays…
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December Read Alouds
It’s time for another month’s read alouds to celebrate wacky, silly, important, and historical holidays! This list combines not only great fictional read alouds, but some nonfiction and biographies as well to teach kids about fun and interesting facts and people. I’m not taking all the credit, as the blog…
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2024 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Winter
We’re nearing the very end of the alphabet with the letter “W” today. And I thought winter would be the perfect word for today’s challenge. Winter adds an additional layer to adventure stories and these titles are no different. The cold, chill of winter wind, the snowflakes falling, and the…
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12 Middle Grade Novels with a Winter Setting
While it’s blustery and cold outside, you’ve got to check out these 12 middle grade novels with a winter setting. I love creating book lists that can span genres and that’s exactly what this one does. This middle grade book list includes fantasy, adventure, realistic fiction, and science fiction. It’s…
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Storytime Theme: Penguins
What’s black and white and read all over? This adorable penguin storytime! Get it… it’s a book pun! What I love about storytime lesson plans is that you can cherry-pick the parts that you need. You don’t have to use all of it – take the parts that work for…
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Storytime Theme: Moose
When I decided to create a storytime theme around moose, I totally forgot that I had recently created a moose book list just a few months ago! So, this list includes even more moose books for my storytime theme: moose! Make sure to check both lists for lots of great…
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Storytime Theme: Snow
It never fails that when I do a snow-themed storytime that it’s either raining or one of the warmest days in winter. This year? It’s both! It started off rainy this morning and will be almost 70 degrees by this afternoon – in December. But as they say in the…
