It’s Saturday and time to celebrate with others who link up with Ruth Ayres Celebrate This Week. If you’ve visited my blog before, you would recognize that kid’s books play a central role in my life. My career choices were made around the fact that I wanted a job where I could read and share […]
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Living on the River – a celebration
Celebrating Life on the River A number of years ago we moved from the country to a home on the Kings River in Central California. We’ve enjoyed hours floating, boating, swimming, bird watching, and daydreaming. Even when the river slows in winter, we appreciate even the little stream of water that flows past our house. […]
Hooray for Doughnut Day!
The first Friday in June is National Doughnut Day which began in 1938 when the Salvation Army handed out doughnuts and other snacks to American soldiers. Here at A Field Trip Life we like to celebrate everything with a book. One of our favorites is Homer Price by Robert McCloskey. In the chapter titled The Doughnuts, […]
Happy Birthday, Pippi Longstocking!
“I don’t want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.” –Astrid Lindgren Who wouldn’t love a book that begins: Way out at the end of a tiny little town was an old overgrown garden, and in the garden was an old […]
Celebrating May Day
May Day is an old fashioned holiday that isn’t celebrated much. That doesn’t mean we can’t bring it back, though. Whatever happened to Maypole dances? I did this once when I was five years old. I don’t remember much about kindergarten but I do remember holding onto a beautiful ribbon and going around the pole […]