*Nonfiction recipe/math activity book for elementary students *Using math in recipes is the main topic *Rating: This is the perfect book to work through this summer when you are looking for something fun to do with your kids. Eat Your Math Homework would also be great for a summer enrichment program or camp activities. I [...]

Before I get to today’s clever book, I want to announce the winner of my book, Finding My Place: One Girl’s Strength at Vicksburg from Juanita Noble’s blog. Drumroll. . . and the winner is Elizabeth Pagel-Hogan of Pittsburgh, PA! Thanks for entering, Elizabeth. I hope you enjoy the book! If you haven’t checked out [...]

*Nonfiction picture book about the U.S. presidents’ mothers for upper elementary *Mothers as main topics in the book *Rating: I adore this book, First Mothers written by Beverly Gherman. The language is perfect for kids–she took a difficult subject & did a wonderful job with it! The illustrations by Julie Downing are even better–there’s even [...]

*Picture book, preschool through first grade *Squirrels as the main subject matter *Rating: This is a really cute and neat book with amazing photographs of squirrels in Central Park by Murray Head. Since my 22-month-old daughter loves animals and not many words on the page, this is a perfect book for her! Short, short, summary: [...]

I have several things to discuss today, so this post is going to be a little different than the usual. First, I was lucky enough to get my free 48-hour copy of Wisdom, The Midway Albatross on Friday for the anniversary of the Japanese tsunami. Darcy’s book, with illustrations by Kitty Harvill, is beautiful. It’s [...]

In keeping with the pirate theme I’ve had going the last couple posts, I would like to share with you a great, non-fiction recipe book for kids, A Pirate Cookbook. This is such a nice, wonderful, bright, easy cookbook for kids, and they will love it. You can use it if you are a parent, [...]

photo by DeusXFlorida www.flickr.com *Nonfiction picture book about baseball *Rating: Baseball From A to Z presents a creative way to teach children baseball vocabulary with fun illustrations. Your baseball nuts will love it! Short, short summary: Michael P. Spradin takes each letter of the alphabet and finds a baseball vocabulary word to go with it. [...]

photo by weglet www.flickr.com *Nonfiction picture book for preschoolers through second graders (historical) *Sisters who wrote the song “Happy Birthday to You!” *Rating: Happy Birthday to You! is a great nonfiction picture book to share with kids about a subject near and dear to their hearts AND with wonderful illustrations! Short, short summary: Happy Birthday [...]