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Let’s Walk and Read!

June 25, 2021 By Claire Annette Noland 3 Comments

Let’s Walk and Read!

Hooray! It’s Summertime! Are you looking forward to being outside, exercising, and reading a good book? Here’s a great way to combine all three of these activities as you WALK AND READ. The idea is simple. A children’s book is mounted on boards and displayed page-by-page in shop windows. Families read the story as they […]

Filed Under: Evie's Field Day, Family, Field Trips, picture books, Places Tagged With: Book Promotion, Evie's Field Day, Field Trip, Visiting Kingsburg, Walk and Read

Bedtime Daddy! – a new book to add to your bedtime routine

June 12, 2020 By Claire Annette Noland 5 Comments

Bedtime Daddy! – a new book to add to your bedtime routine

In our house bedtime was a marathon. What should have been an easy, calm routine became, shall we say, wild. It’s a challenge getting four kids to bed but, my husband was really the instigator. He took his role as the official bedtime reader seriously and liked to dramatize every story in the pile. Finally, […]

Filed Under: 2020 Debut Crew, Books, Family, picture books Tagged With: bedtime books, Bedtime Daddy! Sharon Giltrow author

At Home Field Day – 10 Ways to Play (plus a bonus)

April 23, 2020 By Claire Annette Noland 10 Comments

At Home Field Day – 10 Ways to Play (plus a bonus)

What day of the school year do children most look forward to celebrating? That’s easy – FIELD DAY!   Just because kids are now staying safe at home doesn’t mean that they can’t celebrate the end of the academic school year. Since so much learning is happening online these days, everyone is ready to get […]

Filed Under: 2020 Debut Crew, Books, Family, picture books Tagged With: At Home Field Day, Claire Annette Noland author. Alicia Teba illustrator, Evie's Field Day, Field Day Activities, Sportsmanship

If I Kiss You, Will I Get Diabetes? – a review

August 1, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 4 Comments

If I Kiss You, Will I Get Diabetes? – a review

From time to time, life throws a new challenge your way. I remember the day that our son was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. A whole new road had to be maneuvered, new vocabulary learned, and meal planning became filled with extra importance. I wish back then that we had the book:   If I […]

Filed Under: Biographies, Books, Family Tagged With: Children's books about diabetes, If I kiss You Will I Get Diabetes?, Quinn Nystrom

Under the Sea – mapping an unknown world

April 23, 2018 By Claire Annette Noland 3 Comments

Under the Sea – mapping an unknown world

  Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea; Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor by Robert Burleigh (author)  Raúl Colón (illustrator) Simon & Schuster (2016) picture book biography grades Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea is a book for anyone interested in maps and map-making. It tells the story of Marie Tharp who,as a girl, loved maps. She […]

Filed Under: Biographies, Blogging A to Z, book maps, Books, Family Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, Maps in Children's Books, Marie Tharps, Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea; Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor, undersea treasure

New Book to help celebrate National Adoption Day

November 18, 2017 By Claire Annette Noland 1 Comment

New Book to help celebrate National Adoption Day

Today I’d like to share a special book for those of us who have chosen international adoption as a way to build our families: Babies Come From Airports by Erin Dealy (author) and Luciana Navarra Powell (illustrator) “Some babies come from the hospital, Some babies come from airports, but all babies come from love.” This […]

Filed Under: Adoption, Books, Celebrate, Family, Multicultural Children's Books Tagged With: adoption, Babies Come From Airports, Erin Dealy

Forest World by Margarita Engle – a Field Trip review #ownvoices #diversekidlit

September 1, 2017 By Claire Annette Noland 1 Comment

Forest World by Margarita Engle – a Field Trip review #ownvoices #diversekidlit

There’s always reason to celebrate when a new book by U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate and author Margarita Engle is released. We are doubly fortunate this week because two new books have become available! Forest World (Atheneum Books for Young Readers) is her latest middle grade verse novel which follows the journey Cuban-born but U.S. raised Edver […]

Filed Under: Bookish Field Trips, Books, Family, Field Trips, Multicultural Children's Books Tagged With: Cuba - middle grade fiction, environmental fiction for children, Forest World by Margarita Engle, novels in verse, wildlife conservation - juvenile fiction

Celebrate National Sisters Day with Books!

August 6, 2017 By Claire Annette Noland 2 Comments

Celebrate National Sisters Day with Books!

  When I was nearly ten years old, my mother was pregnant with her fifth child. She went into labor when my father was out of town so his secretary whisked her to the hospital. My older brother, Bob, was left in charge. His way of caring for us was to lock us in our […]

Filed Under: Books, Celebrate, Family Tagged With: Big Sis by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Big Sister, Little Miss, Little Sister by Leuyen Pham, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Sisters by David McPhail, Sisters by Raina Telgemeir, sisters day, Sisters in children's books

Field Trip Notes: Staycation Edition

June 30, 2016 By Claire Annette Noland 2 Comments

Field Trip Notes: Staycation Edition

Looking back over my calendar I realized that I didn’t travel at all during the month of June. I am always going somewhere so this seemed really odd. I guess you could call it a stay-cation. First of all, the Kings River water was released from the dam. Since we have been in a drought […]

Filed Under: Books, Family, Farm Fresh, Field Trips, Food, Places Tagged With: Apricot Blueberry Upside Down Cake recipe, Berry Lady Farm Store, Bocce Ball, Kingsburg - things to do, Kingsburg Library, Peter in Blueberry Land, Staycation

Celebrating a Miracle

December 31, 2015 By Claire Annette Noland 15 Comments

Celebrating a Miracle

Today as a year comes to a close and a new one begins, I am celebrating a miracle. Wasn’t it just yesterday that we gazed at a photo of a baby girl that we knew instantly was our daughter? Didn’t we just meet her at the Holt reception center in Seoul and bring her home? […]

Filed Under: Adoption, Books, Celebrate, Family, Uncategorized Tagged With: A Prayer for the children by Ina Hughes, Celebrate, Celebrate the Week, Prayer for a Child, Ruth Ayres Writes

Why Movember Makes November Even Better

November 27, 2015 By Claire Annette Noland 4 Comments

Why Movember Makes November Even Better

I love November because Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. This year, we found a new way to make the month even better. Have you heard of Movember? It began as No Shave November when men (mostly college males) stopped shaving for a month. In 1999, some young men came up with the term Movember when […]

Filed Under: Books, Celebrate, Family Tagged With: Bridget Heos, Joy Ang, Movember, Mustache Baby, Mustache Baby Meets His Match, Mustache Baby Shower, Mustache November

What would the world be like if oak trees didn’t exist?

October 12, 2015 By Claire Annette Noland 8 Comments

What would the world be like if oak trees didn’t exist?

California’s Central Valley was once filled with beautiful valley oak trees. Many were cleared for farms and cities but, fortunately, people have come to appreciate these enormous trees and now do what they can to preserve them. I’m happy that we live where oak trees have long been protected and are part of our every […]

Filed Under: Books, Citizen Science, Family, Places Tagged With: As an Oak Tree Grows. G. Brian Karas, Aydelott Ranch, Chicken Little retold by Steven Kellogg, children's books about trees, Kings County California, The Busy Tree by Jennifer Ward, Trees by Joyce Kilmer, Valley Oak Trees

There’s always room at the family table… a celebration

August 15, 2015 By Claire Annette Noland 9 Comments

There’s always room at the family table… a celebration

As I join fellow bloggers to Celebrate this Week, I want to celebrate the table where our family has shared not only meals but our hopes and dreams for the past forty years. When the time came to empty our childhood home, my brothers, sister, and I each chose something special to keep. The only thing […]

Filed Under: Celebrate, Family Tagged With: Celebrate this week, family, home, Julia Child quote

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