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

Books that Will Be Baby’s First Year Favorites
Today is my son's first birthday. So, I thought I would highlight his top favorite and very good baby books of his first year. All of the books are board books. Board books 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

Celebrate New York
One of the most bustling cities in the United States is New York. This city has a bit a magic like no other. I visited for two special events in my life. The first was a weekend trip with my dad 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