This Is The Glade Where Jack Lives, an offbeat, charming tale

I just had to look up the difference between a glade and a moor, essentially one is reserved for shooting while the other is merely an open space in a forest. This Is The Glade Where Jack Lives immediately reminded me of the book that it reminded you of. This Is The House That Jack Built is that backward told tale that was as great as the person reading it to you. If the reader is full of emotion and passion, then the story leaped off of the page. This Is The Glade Where Jack Lives, Or How a Unicorn Saved the Day takes that template, amps up the silly factor, and adds some fabulous illustrations to make a great good-night that will leave kids four-eight laughing regardless of when they read it.

This is the book, kids rightly mistook for a great good-night read

Tips on how to stress less, because you don’t want to be a mess

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Last year was filled with buckets of stress for so many people. While 2021 hasn’t exactly been a walk in the park either, I want to try to start to change that because we deserve less stress and to live a happy life each and every day. If you want to lower your dress this year, follow these tips to help you get on your way:

Wake up 10 minutes earlier.

Most people have the same approach to the morning: Sleep as late as possible, hit snooze until you really, truly have to get your butt out of bed, and then scramble to get showered, dressed, fed, and out the door. All this rushing puts your body in a state of alarm, spiking your adrenaline and cortisol levels as soon as you get out the bed. If you wake up just 10 minutes earlier, it’ll take the edge off that rush and give you a more relaxed entry into the day. Don’t forget – if you’re waking up 10 minutes earlier, you should be hitting the sheets a little earlier at night, too. Sleep is very important when it comes to overall health and stress management. 

Because stress is not cool

Old Enough to Save the Planet succeeds for many reasons

If Old Enough to Save the Planet were a time then it would be a sunny, warm weekend afternoon. From time to time there would be a cool breeze and there’d also hear a symphony of birds from a variety of branches in the tree above you. There’s a lot to like about Old Enough to Save the Planet. It’s all presented from an easy-going, leisurely perspective that provides elementary-aged children a dozen real-life examples of youth that saw a problem and are actively doing something about it.

A soft teaching eco book that works with illustrations and kids

Do You Know Where the Animals Live?, animal questions kids actually have

A book whose title asks a question owns a special spot to those kidlit readers. Do You Know Where the Animals Live? is a children’s book from Peter Wohlleben, who young readers might know from The Hidden Life of Trees or The Inner Life of Animals. This is our first time reading one of his books and the difference in how he approaches nature content, relative to how some readers might be used to reading about it is immediate and respectful.

Do You Know Where The Animals Live? is a smart, STEM-centered animal book for curious kids who want to ask and read questions about critters.
Looking for a smart book on animals for ages 9 and up?

How to Spot a Mom is cheeky fun for moms

Mother’s Day is nigh. You can surely tell that fact because the greeting card aisle is more motherly than usual and books aimed at maternal units are everywhere. How to Spot a Mom is a gentle, tongue-in-cheek, humor book that one could easily enjoy for a couple of pages. If moms put books in their mom’s only bathroom (which clearly doesn’t exist) or their mom’s only coffee table, then How to Spot a Mom would be common fodder on those tables.

Mom stereotypes taken with a grain of salt, tongue in cheek, fun & true

A Book About Dad (and Mom) is keepsake gold from a child’s certain age

Keepsake is a loaded word. On one hand, it reminds us of some cool Christmas ornaments, that we love, put in those specialized boxes every year, and still purchase more of every season. To some people, that word is simply used by companies to imply that the product is worthy of being celebrated in a family for years or generations. For example, I learned that my Star Wars shirt from 1977 is not a keepsake that my children would like to wear. A Book About Dad or A Book About Mom, With Words and Pictures By Me with illustrations by Irena Freitas, is a keepsake book for all the right reasons.

These books will remain in the family forever

A Most Clever Girl, a great mix of art and words on Jane Austen

There are books that kids want to read and those others that parents or educators want them to read. A Most Clever Girl, How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice is a fascinating illustrated book because it straddles the line between the two very well. Jane Austen’s books are the stuff that high school students dread reading. Sure they are classic books, lauded by teachers, and have two centuries of weight behind them. However, her books have very little relevance to most casual readers and those tween readers that are forced to read them. On the contrary, A Most Clever Girl, How Jane Austen Discovered Her Voice is a fun book that shows younger readers how entertaining and (gasp) fun her books are, especially when viewed through the prism of 1800.

Make kids want to read Jane Austen, we dare you

Let’s Tell a Story! Fairy Tale Adventure weaves as good as you can

When I was teaching English in Japan the constant bane of my classes was a simple one. “I’m fine thank you”, was their response when I asked them how they were doing. I created dozens of crudely illustrated review cards to help them be comfortable saying I’m hungry, sleepy, angry, tired, exhausted, or just OK that they were on that day. Let’s Tell a Story is a book series that does a similar thing, but it builds a story that kids can easily create and tell by themselves. Let’s Tell a Story Fairy Tale Adventures is also great because of the sheer variety of stories that kids will be able to build.

Let’s Tell A Story Fairy Tale Adventures is a book that prompts kids 5-9 to tell detailed stories with a myriad of outcomes and characters.
For those fable story telling kids that need a push, this is golden

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