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A Few Beautiful Minutes: Experiencing a Solar Eclipse

March 30, 2024 Claire Annette Noland 2 Comments

Raise your hand if you’re planning to experience the total solar eclipse on April 8th! I imagine most people in North America are going to be trying to get a glimpse. I’m heading to Texas for the show and am getting prepared. So for this bookish field trip, I have been reading a fabulous selection […]

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Filed Under: Book Travel, Bookish Field Trips, Citizen Science, Field Trips, Picture Books, picture books Tagged With: A Few Beautiful Minutes, eclipse picture books, Kate Allen Fox author, Khoa Le illustrator', perfect picture book Friday, solar eclipse, total eclipse

Nancy Bess Had A Dress Releases Today!

March 19, 2024 Claire Annette Noland 4 Comments

Nancy Bess Had A Dress - Children's Book Story - Clair Annette Noland - Illustrated by Angela C. Hawkins

Waste not, want not! A patterned flour sack becomes a clever creation in this story set in the late 1930’s featuring a crafty girl with a gift for repurposing her favorite daisy print. When the family flour sack is emptied, Nancy Bess remakes it into a dress. But little girls grow as little girls do, […]

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The Quiet Forest – Perfect Picture Book Friday

March 15, 2024 Claire Annette Noland Leave a Comment

When you learn that two of your favorite kidlit creatives have been teamed up on a picture book, you know it’s going to be good! Well, THE QUIET FOREST, written by Charlotte Offsay and illustrated by Abi Cushman, released this week and I was not disappointed. In fact, I know you’re going to love it […]

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Filed Under: Bookish Field Trips, Picture Books, picture books, read aloud Tagged With: Abi Cushman, Charlotte Offsay, perfect picture book Friday, read aloud picture books, The Quiet Forest

Grab Your Binoculars for the Great Backyard Bird Count

February 16, 2024 Claire Annette Noland 1 Comment

This is a great weekend. It is time to get out and join the Great Backyard Bird Count. The GBBC is an annual event begun in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society. It is a four-day event held in February with the goal of creating an overview of the […]

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Filed Under: Bookish Field Trips, Citizen Science, picture books Tagged With: bird tally sheet, bird word search, Great Backyard Bird Count, RAVEN'S GIFT

Book Inspired San Diego Field Trips

February 11, 2024 Claire Annette Noland Leave a Comment

I believe that children’s books are perfect starting places for field trips. We’ve been inspired to visit places and learn more through many of the things that we first discovered on library and bookstore shelves. This past month was filled with these book and place excursions. GROWING AN ARTIST: The Story of a Landscaper and […]

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Filed Under: Book Travel, Field Trips, Inspirations, Multicultural Children's Books, Picture Books, picture books, Places Tagged With: bookish field trips, Dave's Rock Garden, Fresno Art Museum, Growing an Artist, John Parra, San Diego Botanic Garden

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