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I’m a sucker for an alphabet book. Yes, it’s the alphabet and I’m sure there are many ways to promote reading and books but when The Bee was a kid and I wanted to teach her how to read (in my nutty ambitious mind she was going to be reading by age three) we would scour the libraries and book…

My library did a fantastic program called Math Explorers! thanks to this book: 1+1=5.   This book was received from the good folks at Sterling Publishers and it trumped the planned Science Program. I racked my brain for something that would make people as excited about this book as I was (Read about the math program using the above link). Using a myriad of examples, author…

The question of the day on the Great Book Week website is What Books do you read over and over? As we packed homework for the night, The Bee told me she had to do her reading record. When I asked her what book she was reading she told me the book she’s reading at school is The Westing Game by Ellen…

Great Books Week, Day 3 Over the last year, on two separate occasions, I was able to meet the author (Maureen Wright) and illustrator (Will Hillenbrand) of my new favorite bear book:  Sleep Big Bear Sleep. This rhyming book is a sweet story of a bear with a slight hearing problem; he can’t hear the whisper of old man winter who commands him to hibernate for…

I’m on a picture book kick because I need to plan for my next few storytimes I’ve been weeding and pulling books for a display Secretly I want to act Seriously, I love reading aloud to little kids, especially those who make me work for it. It’s satisfying to lure a smile from a withdrawn tight face, someone who has…