tiny bridges

I realized that I didn’t mention The Sneetches in my last post about books. Since I read it to Fiona 3 times yesterday and Liam read it once (and we spend 4 hours in the car without it) it seems a little remiss on my part. It’s one of my favorites for so [...]

Well we’ve been reading, just not keeping track. Let’s see if I can hit some highlights.
Magic School Bus books continue to come up if not daily, weekly. We found a couple of new (to us) easy readers at goodwill and a chapter book at the Arboretum. We checked out the newest book, [...]

After reading this post on the Artful Parent about recycled homemade books I was a little obsessed with the idea of making some, but I wanted to start with something simple. I kept thinking about Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord’s comment about being inspired when she recycled the tab from her teabag. Well it’s summer, [...]

We continue on the MSB craze around here, we found a few easy reader books at the library The Magic School Bus Walks on the Moon and The Magic School Bus Flies the Nest, so those have been in heavy rotation around here. Also, I don’t think I mentioned the obsession with Barnum Brown: [...]

Somehow Fiona and I have checked out an absurd number of books in the past week. Maybe it’s because we made four separate trips to the library last week. Anyway, I’m trying to reduce to a reasonable number, like around 50.
Fiona remains obsessed with dinosaur books, and checked out a set [...]

So Fiona is still pretty much obsessed with The Magic School Bus Series. When we’re not reading the books we’re pretending to be the characters or Fiona is pleading with me to read just one more. The books are fun, but pretty long. For those of you not familiar with the series, [...]

I’ve had the idea that Monday should be “book day” rattling around my brain for some time now and this post at Posie Gets Cozy has made me think that maybe Fiona would like to know about the books she was reading some day. So today I’ll talk about her current favorites and I’ll [...]

Oh Library Book Sale time, we love it so much. Even Fiona was super excited, although I think she would have been happier if we’d left a little more quickly.
Top Finds:
A boxed set of 10 Magic School Bus books that I thought we may need a little time to grow into, but [...]

Thanks to my new (well, newish) internet radio I’ve been listening to all sorts of pod-casts and audio books. Recently I listened to Anne of Green Gables and it was so fun and enlightening. It’s easily been more than a dozen years since I last read it, the last time I remember [...]

Inspired by a post by Jean of The Artful Parent, I wanted to share some books on Fiona’s favorite subject. Princesses. Particularly the brave and smart kind.
Like Jean and her daughter, we also love The Paper Bag Princess, by Robert Munsch, which you can hear him read here. All the recordings on [...]