Parenting 000: Read To Me!

Parenting 000: Read To Me!

I love to overhear children telling each other about the book their dad is reading to them at breakfast or the “happily ever after ending” their mother read to them the night before.  One of the best things we can Read more…


Dinosaurs A to Z

Pre-schoolers as well as early elementary aged children will enjoy this book.  All the friends from the “Dinosaur Train,” a children’s education television show, narrate the book. 


Elasmosaurus

There is a great series of books called Graphic Dinosaurs.   They are full of facts, pictures and a great comic book style story about dinosaurs.   Elasmosaurus The Long-Necked Swimmer begins by describing this dinosaur with facts and pictures.  Then, there Read more…


Dino Bites!

Children love dinosaurs!  They love reading about them, looking at fossils, TV shows, dinosaur activities, coloring pictures of them, making dioramas, creating clay dinosaurs, etc.  Dino Bites! is a perfect book for a beginning reader.  Once you read it to Read more…


How to Babysit a Grandpa

Many children become quite nervous, anxious or upset when they know a “baby-sitter” will soon arrive.  How to Babysit a Grandpa is the perfect story to read to a child to put their mind at ease. 


Pickle-Chiffon Pie

Pickle-chiffon pie may not sound delicious but the story is heart warming.   The princess is beautiful, smart and the perfect catch.  Many eligible men court her.  She invites them to dinner out of courtesy but then her father, the king, Read more…


Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

I love to read and hear a wonderful “nonsense” book with driving rhythm and fabulous rhyming!  Children love to hear these books over and over until they can turn the pages as they “read” the words. 


Amazing Dinosaurs

Children of all ages (including adults) are fascinated with dinosaurs.  As my little granddaughter is studying them, I have found that what I read to my children and learned with them isn’t current or correct today.  For instance, a brontosaurus Read more…


Practice Makes Perfect

One of the toughest concepts that you can teach a child — or anyone, for that matter, is that in order to do something well, you must put in the time.   Whether it be school, sports, work, hobbies, at some Read more…


The Viper

What a great book to introduce a child to the “art of suspense!”   Peggy receives a call from the “viper,” who will come in one year.  Who’s the “viper,” she wonders.  But with 365 days to wait, she figures there Read more…