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Week in Review – Family Fun – May 20th – 27th

Summer is here! Come over to the Family Fun section for water play, books for summer reading, ideas for parties and picnics, and even things to do while bored. Lauri started off the week with an End of the School Year Party. In Breaking out the Baby books, Jeff shared how his family treasures reading and the wonderful memories books his family has from different stages of childhood. He follows with some marvelous sounding books and ways to share history with children in Children’s Literature – American History for Kids. He adds two more stories to our lists in Animal … Continue reading →

Anti-Coloring Books – Fun for the Imagination

My children love the Anti-coloring books from Susan Striker. These books are coloring books, but with a twist. Each page has a border, or part of a picture, and the creative prompt. The books are designed to stimulate children’s (or adults) creativity and to encourage problem solving and critical thinking. So instead of a picture of a robot to color, the page provides a border and asks the young artist to design a robot that can manage one of their dreaded chores. Other pages have things like an outline of a present, you are asked to draw in a perfect … Continue reading →

C D B! and C D C? – William Steig

C D B! and C D C? are incredibly clever and unique picture books. Each page has some letters and a pen and ink drawings from renowned cartoonist and children’s author William Steig. (He also wrote a picture book about an ogre named Shrek!) Below the drawings are letters, and an occasional number or symbol. At first glance, they don’t seem to make any sense. But if you read the letters aloud you can puzzle out words and sentences. The titles of these books are really read as “See the Bee!” and “See the Sea?”. For example, in C D … Continue reading →