I'm completing an action research project for my administration degree on family and school communication. If you have a child in elementary school, would you please take this short survey about View Post
Illustrator Spotlight: Ed Emberly
Ed Emberly has written and illustrated approximately 80 books for children. Many of these books teach children to draw using what Emberly calls his drawing alphabet of six characters. For someone View Post
Martian Fingers
Young children move from "pretend" reading where they make up the story by looking at the pictures or remembering details from countless read-alouds by someone else to actually reading the words on View Post
Book Making – Publishing
Creating books with children couldn't be easier and the benefit to their literacy development is great. Reading and writing go hand in hand. Even if your child can't write with conventional letters, View Post
Book Trailers
We are all familiar with movie trailers. They precede the feature film and entice us with clips to excite us into spending more money to see those movies too. I just recently discovered that View Post
33 Back to Schools
For the past 33 years I have gotten ready to return to school for a fresh new year either as a student, teacher or administrator. This is the first year since I turned 5 that I will not be returning View Post
The Beginning!
Welcome to Growing Book by Book! I'm so excited to launch this blog. I will be featuring great books to read with young children, activities to build upon books, reading tips, giveaways and other View Post