In It’s My Brithday by Helen Oxenbury, everyone contributes an ingredient, from the toddler birthday celebrant, to the assisting animals, a...

I am a late convert to nonfiction – that conversion story, which occurred in college, is one I’ll save for another time. Up until that poin...

In Cynthia Lord's Touch Blue , Tess’s hope that Aaron, her new foster brother, will be more like Anne of Green Gables and less like the ...

How I wish I’d had How Rocket Learned to Read by Tad Hills when I was teaching reading and writing! Yes, it’s a book about learning to re...

The Water Hole by Graeme Base is a great way to bring awareness to youngest children about other animals around the globe, their habitats a...

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is action-packed adventure from the first paragraph. Even though it is set in the future, this fictiona...

Melody Brooks, who narrates Out of My Mind , brought me right back to fourth grade reading class at Parkwood Upjohn Elementary School in Ka...