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Two Mother’s Day Gift Ideas with a Family Literacy Twist

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Who better to ask for Mother’s Day gift ideas than other moms? If your wife is like me, then what she really wants is a gift from the heart. My favorite Mother’s Day gifts are handmade. These are treasures I keep close by all year long. Right now there are Mother’s Day projects underway in many preschool and elementary classrooms across the country.  Want a gift from the whole  family, then keep reading … I had the honor of reading award-winning author/illustrator Marianne Richmond’s picture books for the Reading Tub. Marianne has a new book (which we haven’t read or reviewed) but we have loved her other books … Mama Bear telling Barley the story of his adoption in I … Read more →

Children’s Literacy & Reading News – President’s Day edition

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Have you stopped by Jen Robinson’s Book Page to see the mid-February edition of the Children’s Literacy and Reading News Roundup? Wow! For such a short month February is chock full of great stuff for book lovers and bookworms to be! Check it out now on Jen Robinson’s Book Page. It looks like we have plenty to keep that children’s literacy mojo going well into March, too. We’ll kick off the month on March 1 with NEA’s Read Across America Day. It’s an annual event to promote reading that also coincides with Theodor Geisel’s birthday.  Then, on Monday, March 4 we’ll kick off Reading: The First Five Years for this year’s Share a Story – Shape a Future children’s literacy blog … Read more →

Children’s Literacy & Reading News Roundup – mid-January Edition

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Family Bookshelf hosts the mid-January 2013roundup of literacy news, children’s literacy events, and reading ideas hosted at Jen Robinson’s Book Page. The roundups are a syndicated collection of reading-related material which is co-authored by Terry Doherty at Family Bookshelf, Jen Robinson of Jen Robinson’s Book Page and Carol Rasco who blogs at Quietly. Read more →