There are many unknown Cinderella stories that are not as familiar as the Walt Disney version of the tale. Although Disney has popularized the recognizable story, there are several picture books with different adaptations of the Cinderella fairy tale that are worth reading. These Cinderella stories are sure to entertain anyone who loves the cinder [...]
Audio books are important especially to children who are just starting to read. It helps them develop their sense of association to how the words look like to how the letters are placed together and how the words are pronounced. They are effective learning tools. The great thing about Audio Books is the fact that [...]
I think in every family, there is at least one older member who has absolutely no understanding of the “potential” of computers. Some, like my sister, have no desire to learn either. However, as more and more opportunities for sharing pictures, letters and even researching the family tree becomes known, many people who had no [...]
Nandi & the Renewal of Serenity The setting is ancient Kemet/Egypt. A birth, a blessing, an old piece of wood and a powerful Lector with two prodigious apprentices – four secrets kept for thirteen years. Furthermore, ivory-seeds rain, a child with flesh of tattooed wood, Seats of Eternity as prizes, three mystique walls protecting Truth [...]
The Harry Potter 7th book, the Deathly Hallows is J K Rowlings favorite of the Potter editions. In her words, it was where the story was always leading and the ending she had planned for seventeen years. It all started in 1997 with the first book of Potter magic, the Sorcerers Stone. I cant really [...]
What’s New at the Zoo? written by Suzanne Slade, illustrated by Joan Waites, and published by Sylvan Dell Publishing, takes the reader on an animal adding adventure. It begins: “Two hungry pandas eat a bamboo lunch. One cub joins the meal. How many crunch and munch? 2 + 1 = ?” Through delightful rhyming text [...]
As the title of this book implies, with ingenuity and an obvious love of the sea, Ms. Nolan took some wonderful old standard nursery rhymes and wove them into sea and coastline themed poems. Within these rhymes, Ms. Nolan introduces bits of nautical history and information. Instead of Jack and Jill, it’s Jack and June [...]
Often humans get too caught up in the city environment that they’ve created, and while it is true that we have created astounding works of art, architecture and massive infrastructure, we must also realize that there is a lot more too our world that the concrete under our feet. If you have children perhaps you [...]
Title: The Inconvenient Adventures of Uncle Chestnut Author: Paul Nowak Publisher: Eternal Revolution ISBN: 0-9772234-9-3 The Inconvenient Adventures of Uncle Chestnut is a 64 page book intended for middle grade children. It has four fictional short stories within, is written in a first person point of view, and is based on the life and works [...]
Even if your child knows how to read, or is learning to read, you can both benefit from reading together. Reading aloud gives you time together, and your child can ask questions about the story you are reading if needed. You can also ask questions about the chapter or segment you read, or the story [...]
