I read this article last night and couldn’t believe it. It was written by a woman I respect and admire and who I know is an amazing reader and fellow bibliophile. http://www.sonlight.com/blog/2012/04/why-i-read-the-end-first.html Here’s what she says: “I usually read the end of a book first. It helps me enjoy the book more.” Aaack! Really?! She [...]
Oh Yes—I love job-training!!! They loved it too—I believe kids naturally enjoy work unless they are taught to dread it. This wasn’t all we did for school that day. We also read. Getting to be the end of the year. Enough said.
Yes! Success! We feel like such good surrogate mama hens. Five out of our 6 eggs hatched and the chicks are thriving! Two had to be helped out of their shells. When it looked after about 24 hours that they weren’t making any progress, I decided to take a chance and give them a [...]
When my husband and I built our house over 10 years ago, little did we know we would someday yearn (yes, yearn!) for chickens!! Had we known then, we probably would not have built in an area with covenants. BUT we did, and so here we are, unable to own chickens. With at least one [...]
We’ve been busy bees behind the scenes here at the MKB home office—here’s an update: First off, MomsKidsBooks is excited to have official MKB Mavens*! Over a dozen new Mavens have been voting on whether the 1300 books on the website are the “best-of-the-best” and as of April 15, 2012, we will only list those [...]
Unless you are a math geek, a teacher of littles, or a student yourself, you might not even have realized that March 14 is Pi day! (3.14—see, get it? ) Nonetheless, it is, and here are a few fun links for celebrating such a momentous occasion: Pi Day website – see one million digits of [...]
It provides wholesome entertainment. Oh, the joy of sitting on the sofa, snuggled up with one or two warm little bodies aside, laughing together over a silly book. Not every book has to be educational or has to teach a moral lesson. Sometimes it is just fun to laugh. Some books we love are merely [...]
Upholds traditional biblical values and models good character traits. I’ve had many people ask whether our site lists only “Christian” books. The answer is no! There are so many amazing and wonderful books out there that are not considered “Christian”. However, none of our books will, to the best of our knowledge, glorify or [...]
It conveys imaginative and memorable ideas. These are the books that take us to places outside of our own worlds. They may take us to lands faraway, to imaginary worlds, to personally unexplored territories like deep oceans, space, the microscopic world, into the past, or into the world of emotions like joy, intrigue, suspense, compassion, [...]
I had the pleasure of meeting a delightful new friend recently, Vivian Kirkfield. We met at a festival where she was promoting her new book, Show Me How! Build Your Child’s Self Esteem Through Reading, Crafting and Cooking. This book is packed with cooking and craft ideas that correspond to 100 really great children’s books. [...]
