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Happy Holidays!! (“…brought to you by ___”)
This entry is part 19 of 21 in the series Unplug Your Holidays This is a post I should have written about two months ago. Two months ago when all the cheap plastic decorations first made their way into...
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Fluffy – Pom Poms for Peace (Weekly Unplugged Project)
This week’s Unplugged Project theme (fluffy) was not premeditated, it just popped into my head. I wanted an adventure this week so I thought long and hard all week about what to do. Cotton balls?...
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Easy Homemade Musical Instruments
Thanks to a wonderfully creative music teacher at my children’s Montessori school, the latest fad around our house are little homemade guitars/harps like that shown above. The kids are loving putting...
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Betsy-Tacy (Maud Hart Lovelace) – Another Great Chapter Book
I find so much good stuff by surfing Amazon! Having no “real” bookstore here and only a tiny library, it is one of my best ways for discovering great books. One of our latest wonderful reads is...
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Early Readers: Pirate Adventures!
In my never ending quest for good early readers, I recently stumbled upon this “treasure” for pirate-loving boys: Treasure Island – Easy Reader Classics Series. I bought the first two of the set of...
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Picture Books That Entertain ME (…oh, and my toddler too…)
Have you ever fallen asleep while talking out loud? I have and it happens most often when I am putting my three year-old to bed, reading her a bedtime story. My voice gets softer, my words become...
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Nasreen’s Secret School (Jeanette Winter) – Review
If you like multicultural children’s books, then I hope you are familiar with the books published by the Global Fund for Children. The Global Fund for Children recently discovered my review of their...
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Ta Da!! (2010 Newbery & Caldecott)
Yesterday morning was the big announcement of this year’s Newbery and Caldecott children’s book award winners. Drum roll please… John Newbery: “The Newbery Medal is awarded annually by the Association...
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Review: “Olivia Acts Out”
Olivia the pig is in a play…does she earn the lead role of Fairy Queen? Umm, no. Much to her dismay, she is cast as Cow Number Two! I recently agreed to review Simon and Schuster’s new Olivia book,...
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Book Giveaway! –“Zeke, Ky and the Mountain Stream” (Gwynneth Beasley)
One of the really fun things about blogging is all the people you “meet.” Recently a former Unplugged Project participant, blogger and now published author Gwynneth Beasley (hooray Gwynneth –...
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1940’s Innocence – Maj Lindman’s Series (Chapter Books Suitable for...
I am on a roll with Swedish children’s books after last week’s recommendation of Astrid Lindgren’s The Children of Noisy Village and Happy Times in Noisy Village. That post reminded me of Maj...
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