In honor of the birthday of Theodore Giesel (aka Dr. Seuss), today is READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY. We hope that you will celebrate by sharing a book!

 I love this picture book:     By Jim Tobin; illustrations by Dave Coverly   It is so cleverly done.  The reader sings along to the tune of Old MacDonald had a farm, singing “Sue MacDonald had a book, AEIOU.”  It is a great way to introduce children to vowels.  I love how each vowel [...]

I am an author-mother in a predicament: I need to ask my son to stop reading. That’s right, to stop reading. My son wasn’t one of those very early or very precocious readers, and there were moments when I wondered if he’d take to it at all. Well into first grade, he was happy to [...]

‘Tis the season for lists. So, in this spirit I offer you one of my own: Read-aloud books that fit the season. These are books that our family has read to each other over the years and have been perennial pleasers. This isn’t a comprehensive list of books for the season, not even the best [...]

When my kids were small, and each evening required several bedtime stories, a perennial favorite was Steven Kellog’s Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett. She could outrun, out swim, out arm wrestle, out tug-o-war any man in creation. She chopped trees with her teeth, tamed eagles, skinned bears, whipped up tornadoes, and out wrestled the [...]

The project of the week in my son’s current summer camp is to collect “new and gently used books” for Read To Grow, whose mission is explained in the cover letter as “to provide books to children.” Curious, in the light of Kate’s recent blog about new media and books going online, on phones and [...]