photo by susansimon www.flickr.com Today’s Timeless Thursday book is a classic for sure–Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat. This book is loved by many–children and adults and even movie producers. Originally published in 1957, The Cat in the Hat was written when William Spaulding, the textbook publisher at Houghton Mifflin, commissioned Seuss to write a [...]

Matilda first published in London in 1988, is one of my favorite children’s books for middle-grade readers even though I read it for the first time as an adult in college. (Although, that seems to be happening more and more lately–children’s and young adult’s books are becoming my favorites as an adult!) Anyway, this Roald [...]

I recently listened to the audio book of Ender’s Game (20th anniversary edition), and it was sooooo good. I thought maybe I had read the book before because I knew a lot about it; but maybe it was 20 years ago and I don’t have a good memory. Anyway, whether it was the first time [...]

photo by digipam www.flickr.com On Saturday, I was at a nature writing workshop presented by Jen Cullerton Johnson, who is the author of the upcoming book, Seeds of Change, a picture book about Wangari Maathai. I don’t want to tell you too much about this book because I hope to review it on here soon [...]

photo by soulshine20_05 www.flickr.com The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister is the Timeless Thursday choice this week. In looking over some information for this book, I discovered that it was originally published in Switzerland! It was published in the United States by North-South Books just under 20 years ago. Can you believe it? The Rainbow [...]

Just the title of this book peaks kids’ interest even 38 years later. Who can resist such an awesome title–Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day? Really? Not to mention that Judith Viorst does an awesome job of capturing exactly how children, teens, and adults feel on those days when nothing seems [...]

Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag is near and dear to my heart because I starred as the old woman in a play my first grade class did about this book in 1978. (Okay, now I know you are all adding up my age!) Anyway, I remember my teacher, Mrs. Burney, reading us this book, [...]

Judy Blume is an amazing author–we all know that! What is completely amazing is that when I am looking for Timeless Thursday books, I often go back to Judy Blume. And why her books are perfect for Timeless Thursday posts are because the issues she wrote about over 30 years ago are still issues for [...]

Let’s hope that while we are reading about this fantastic-Caldecott-Medal-winning book, The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats that it is not snowing anywhere where you are reading this post. It’s spring or fall–wherever you are in the world, right? But still The Snowy Day is a timeless classic, and preschool and elementary school-aged children [...]

Many children and tweens are familiar with Bridge to Terabithia because of the 2007 movie, starring Josh Hutcherson and Anna Sophia Robb. But this story is definitely a Timeless Thursday choice because the book has been around since 1977. And like many good books that stick around, people challenged it and tried to ban it [...]