Happy Arbor Day! In addition to celebrating our planet Earth earlier this week, today is the day to give a special shoutout to the wonder of those incredible ecosystems, those beautiful bounties, and those producers of oxygen: trees! In addition to planting a tree or nurturing a sapling, Arbor Day is also a great day … Continue reading Celebrating Arbor Day with Some Tree-riffic Books!
Hello, friends! Our book today is Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston, written by Alicia D. Williams and illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara. In a little town called Eatonville lived a little girl named Zora who had a passion for stories. She would hang around Joe Clarke’s general … Continue reading Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston (Alicia D. Williams)
(Note: This review was delayed due to a family illness) Halloween Week, Day 6: Hello, everyone! Today, we read The Hungry Ghosts, written by Julius Lester and illustrated by Geraldo Valério, an strange and magical tale of a little boy and his new, ghostly friends. Malcolm David is sleeping in his room one night when … Continue reading The Hungry Ghosts (Julius Lester)
The Baby Bookworm 