a celebration of childrens books
Our family looks forward to building our Christmas book collection each year, but there are slim pickings when it comes to Easter books outside the realm of favorite characters gussied up in bunny ears at an egg hunt. The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes has been my favorite Easter book since I was a little girl, so all others have a lot to live up to! This year, we discovered Jan Brett’s The […] Read More
I vividly remember my first Martin Luther King Day assembly. I was in first grade, and our entire school body was squished together on the scuffed linoleum floor of the multi-purpose room. A teacher put the lyrics to “We Shall Overcome” on the overhead projector and led us in several verses, and then a fifth grader recited King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. A few months later, at a barbeque hosted by my dad’s […] Read More