Ragazzimeans “children/kids”. The BRAW are BCBF awards aimed at highlighting the most beautiful and innovative illustrated books at an international level. They are one of the most prestigious recognitions for children’s publishing. Every year, a wide selection of the best books (over 100 tit...
Teaching a non-native 5 year old how to read Chinese is a new challenge for me. There is no external input from her school or family members, so it is all down to me. For reading specifically, I started with 四五快读 [Quick, Read!], which is a series of 8 textbooks which introdu...
George Washington Vanderbilt was a 25 year old bachelor in 1889 when he commissioned a French Renaissance chateau for friends and family to escape New York winters.Can you imagine how those 16th-century castles in the Loire Valley must have wished that they, too, had 125,000 acres to frolic ...
This series was a highlight for my reading year. 10 books released this year and I read every single one of them. This series is not available on audio so I actually read each book and most in just two or three days. I loved every character and every story line. This series is stea...
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans by John Bailey (Atlantic Monthly Press, Dec 06, 2004) Going-Natural: How To Fall In Love With Nappy Hair by Mireille Liong-A-Kong (Going Natural, Inc., Dec 01, 2004...
I think we’ll stay in Moscow, and go to Eva Hornung’s Dog boy (my review) about a 4-year-old feral (or wild) child who, having been left alone in a Moscow apartment for days, sets out on his own and is adopted by a dog, Mamochka. The novel tells of his life with the ...
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I picked up The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin last month while trolling a bookstore with my 14 year old daughter and her friend. They had babysitting money to burn and were there looking for a toy (a Dr. Who tardis sold at Barnes and Noble), which gave me 30 minutes or so to...
Meet 10 Yr old Jeffrey as he travels back in time to 1,400 BC and meets Joshua and Moses, camps on the Plains of Moab, learns lessons of leadership, and witness the fall of Jericho.
“She had given up things for him before. After their first year together, she’d left her job as an RN because it was so exciting to travel with him. And then being on the road got old, or maybe just she did. But by the end of her second year touring with him, she began to...