On the day he almost died, Kimbal Musk had food on the brain. The Internet startup talent and restauranteur had just arrived in Jackson Hole from a conference where chef Jamie Oliver had spoken about the benefits of health...
In the picture book, all the rocks want to roll down their favorite hill, but Ricky the rock cannot because he’s flat on one side. The friends are determined to include Ricky in their fun, one way or another. After reading this book aloud to your 1st graders, give your class a chan...
Thus, reading anger management books aloud to toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners is a great resource to help them learn to manage their anger appropriately. The books about anger for kids on the list below provide helpful techniques parents and educators can use to help children tame the...
offering to pass one along to a friend. It’s the kind of thing parents will say with a certain amount of pride because of what it implies: My child is now reading independently and no longer requires the crutch of pictures. Just as he once relinquished the binky, he has moved on. ...
Lastly, she may not have always been writing but she was always working. She had an uncanny ability to eavesdrop on a conversation while having a conversation herself. I called her the ultimate multi-tasker. Also, if she was stuck on something she would simply assign her brain the task of...
Stories are a great way to introduce new words and ideas into a child's language--starting with picture books for the very young, working up to more complex novels for teenagers. Fiction based on real life can also help children with their own life experience--it shows them how diverse th...
It also touches on what it’s like to live in two homes and how to manage new family members, like step-parents and step-siblings. The fun illustrations of dinosaurs and the kid-friendly writing of Marc Brown make it a must-read for families in this scenario. “When your parents ...
“I wanted to move the needle past where many of us are with regard to Harriet Tubman, in which we think of her as this lone heroic figure. Actually, she was never alone, but did things that other people did not do. I landed on a very common phrase that I found quite helpful, sim...
Storiesareagreatwaytointroducenewwordsandideasintoachild'slanguage--startingwithpicturebooksfortheveryyoung,workinguptomorecomplexnovelsforteenagers.Fictionbasedonreallifecanalsohelpchildrenwiththeirownlifeexperience--itshowsthemhowdiversetheworldisandthatsomepeople'slivesarevastlydifferentfromtheirs.Andtheprocess...
to understand the meaning of enlightenment. He experiences life as a pious Brahmin, a rich merchant called Samana, a lover and an ordinary ferryman to a father. It is one of themost popular books on Buddhaabout how he comes to blend in with the world and trying to resonate with the ...