Mary K1 hour ago2 min readPICTURE BOOKSPlant the seeds of reading with these fun picture books about plants!In my monthly library program, I choose an early literacy theme on which to focus. In November it was vocabulary - or, more specifically,...
Mary KOct 272 min readPICTURE BOOKSPicture books to develop empathySharing picture books is a great way to grow social-emotional skills like empathy. Reading a story offers a great opportunity to put...
Mary KOct 82 min readPICTURE BOOKSLet's learn about shapes and letters through picture books!Did you know that learning about shapes helps with learning letters and numbers? It does! Being able to recognize shapes helps with...
Mary KAug 102 min readPICTURE BOOKSGreat picture books about colors!Every month I share a booklist to go along with the theme of the program I'm doing at my library that month. This month we're exploring...
Mary KMay 23 min readPICTURE BOOKSBombastic Side-eye: Unreliable Narrators in Picture Books.*[cross-posted on In The Writer’s Web] I realized recently that two of my manuscripts have unreliable narrators. One is a “voice...