This past year, 2017, was the first year since I started blogging that I relaxed my reading schedule a little bit to scale back the number o...

After adding in all the new books my kids got for Christmas that I have read with them this week, the final count of books I read in 2017 is...

I reviewed 3 books for the challenge this month: Prairie School by Lois Lenski (1951) The Tough Winter by Robert Lawson (1954) Far O...

There hasn't been ice on the canal in four years. For nine-year-old Moonta, who was sick that last icy winter, it has been four long y...

In this sequel to Rabbit Hill , gloomy rabbit Uncle Analdas and all the other animals on the Hill are dreading a tough winter. The Folks h...

Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is the books bloggers are looking forward to reading in the new year. Here are the titles to be released i...

Family Read-Alouds After finishing A Bear Called Paddington , we haven't picked up another chapter book yet. Instead, we've...