Adventures with an ADHD homeschooling mom.
My son was assigned this book to read in his Build Your Library curriculum and, as is most all the books assigned with this curriculum, this turned out to be a great read! It is a picture book, sort of…in […]
I Wonder What’s Under There, by Deborah Nourse Lattimore I love this book! I think I got it years ago…long before children…from the bargain section of Borders Books (I miss them!) when I was working there. It was so intriguing, […]
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World, by Rachel Ignotofsky This is an awesome book! My daughter got this as a gift on her 16th birthday from a family member and we are in love with it! […]
Poetry Speaks to Children I’ve had this book for years…I believe it was given to me to review on another website of mine, but I’ve since forgotten. I never got into it because I’m just not really a poetry person. […]
Amy’s Light, by Robert Nutt This is a lovely little story of a little girl bringing fireflies into her room, to chase away the darkness. Told in rhyming verse with absolutely GORGEOUS pictures, this enchanting tale would be especially wonderful […]
This book is called “The Garden” in the UK, and “Under the Moon” in the US. Same book. The one I have is called “Under the Moon”. I noticed on Amazon it’s harder to find under that title…but you can […]
My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, And Me, by Maya Angelou This book is a little young for my kids, but I just adore it. It’s by Maya Angelou! It’s super cute…full of bright, colorful photographs. The story takes place […]
My 12 year old son just finished this trilogy and is RAVING about it. So I asked him if he’d write a review about them, to share here…and this is what he had to say… PLEASE NOTE: The book links are […]
The Rainbow Bridge, by Audrey Wood This week I read an old favorite of mine to my kids. This book is an adapted version of the creation story of the Chumash tribe (Native American) of the Central Coast of CA. […]
I don’t recall how I found this book, years ago…but I’m sure I stumbled upon it as I perused the picture book aisles of a book store, as I always do whenever I visit. I just adore picture books. Even […]
So I need to get my butt in gear and finish publishing my 12 part Homeschooling Early Childhood series…It’s all written and I just have some tweaks to do on the final posts…but, sadly, my ADHD is kicking in and […]
Three Cups of Tea: Young Reader’s Edition by Greg Mortenson My kids and I (age 9 boy, 14 girl) really enjoyed this book. I know there’s a lot of controversy around it and the lies the author has told and […]
Dear Dr. Bell…Your Friend, Helen Keller by Judith St. George Wow. This is a fascinating book! I had NO idea Alexander Graham Bell and Helen Keller were such good friends…or friends at all! And everyone I’ve talked to about this […]
Who Was Amelia Earhart? by Kate Boehm Jerome This was an excellent intro to Amelia Earhart! It made us (myself and my 14 and 9yr old) fascinated by this young woman’s life! Now I need to find a good documentary […]
Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere,Esq. as Revealed by his Horse by Robert Lawson This is a really neat historical fiction book written from the perspective of Paul Revere’s horse! […]
Lives of the Scientists: Experiments, Explosions (and What the Neighbors Thought), by Kathleen Krull This is an excellent children’s nonfiction book that shares short info on the lives of a selection of scientists throughout history. It is sort of a […]
Do you have a voracious reader in your home? Is he a boy around age 7/8yrs old? My nearly 8yr old son is just devouring books lately! The problem is finding books that are high enough quality for him, on […]
Yikang’s Day: From Dawn to Dusk in a Chinese City, by Sungwan So Found this book at the library while researching books on China to use with this idea of Homeschooling with The Amazing Race, as discussed in our podcast […]
Blast off to Earth!: A Look at Geography, by Loreen Leedy This book was so cute and fun! A class of kid robots from space visit the Earth on a field trip. A robot guide narrates info about the planet, […]
Who’s That Stepping on Plymouth Rock, by Jean Fritz This is a really cute, quick read about the infamous Plymouth Rock. It talks about the real story of that rock in a fun way. From 1620 to current times, the […]
Many Creatures, A Song about Animal Classifications, by Laura Purdie Salas This is a cute little picture book that details all the animal classifications: mammals, amphibians, fish, birds, reptiles, and insects…to the tune of “Clementine.” There’s even a website that […]