This year for the A to Z Blog Challenge, I am marching through the alphabet celebrating ABC books. Today I’d like to give a hand to Hands that communicate. THE HANDMADE ALPHABET by Laura Rankin (author and illustrator) Dial Books 1991 This stunning book features soft pencil illustrations of human hands signing the letters […]
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Q is for Quebec – another stop on the A-Z April Blog Challenge – Read Your World
We had a thrilling time in Paris and so now it’s on to Quebec where French is also spoken. I feel like I’m cheating a bit in this blog challenge. There are not many places that begin with the letter Q. I found no books about Qatar and the only book I could find about […]
P is for Paris and an interview with author Evelyne Holingue
P is for Paris, today’s destination on the A to Z April Blog Challenge where my theme is Read Your World with Kid’s Books. Trapped in Paris written by Evelyne Holingue Young adult fiction Do you remember when the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano erupted in Iceland in 2010? Air travel was suspended thousands of people had to rearrange […]
Celebrating Sunflowers – #Life is Good
I am still a blogger-in-training. It takes me a long time to upload pictures and add a post. One of the best blog incentives was the a-z blog challenge that I joined this past April. Bloggers were encouraged to post daily on a theme following the alphabet. This exercise helped me to think of topics […]
Y is for Yummy
Yes! I have almost finished the a to z blog challenge and I have a great book that starts with Y – Yummy” Eight Favorite Fairy Tales Retold and Illustrated by Lucy Cousins Candlewick Press 2009 I don’t think you can ever be too old for Fairy Tales. I have been collecting them most of […]