Bicycles, Bloomers, and Books about Invention

Birth of the Bicycle by Sarah Nelson and Iacopo Bruno, Candlewick Press
Since 1900, most of kids' riding and rolling has happened on bicycles. It’s no wonder that children love these clever machines. As kids learn to ride, their worlds widen; their independence grows.

Banning Books

Red A Crayon's Story
This month we had planned to write about several books we love that have been banned, but we realized that along with giving you a list of banned books we really wanted to write about the current tsunami of book banning in our country.

Skinny Dip with Kelly Starling Lyons

Kelly Starling Lyons
You may know Kel­ly Star­ling Lyons for One Mil­lion Men and Me or Tea Cakes for Tosh or Ellen’s Broom, mem­o­rable pic­ture books, but we’re cel­e­brat­ing her new chap­ter books star­ring Jada Jones! Thanks, Kel­ly, for tak­ing a Skin­ny Dip with us in December. Who was your favorite teacher in grades K-7 and why? That’s a tough question.… more