Audible is a great way to get some reading time in when you don’t have time to sit and read.
Books We Love: Cardboard Box Engineering
This is such a fun book for any kid with access to some cardboard boxes and a little imagination. This will actually teach and guide them to create some pretty cool stuff.
Books We Love: Herbal Remedy Garden
Enhance your health naturally with herbs from your own garden. In this easy-to-use guide, Doris Byers offers simple instructions for growing, harvesting, and making healing mixtures from a variety common medicinal herbs, such as garlic, chamomile, and echinacea. Illustrated plans for 38 health-care themed designs include the Cold and Flu Garden, the Healthy Heart Garden, and the Rejuvenation Garden. You’ll be sure to find the right mixture of herbs to cure whatever ails you!
Books We Love: Ground Zero
Alan Gratz writes historical fiction for young adults. Ground Zero tackles an event I remember well – Ground Zero – 9/11 and the events that followed.
Books We Love: Planting peace : The Story of Wangari Maathai
*Affiliate links may be included. All opinions are my own.* One of the kids’ friends is from Kenya and they had been back in Kenya for a month so it seemed like the perfect time to learn a little about where their friends are from. Planting Peace: The Story of Wangari Maathai was a great…
Books We Love: The Scourge
Looking for a great adventure story for young readers? The Scourge will captivate your audience from the very first page.
Books We Love : Saddles, Stars and Stripes
*Disclosure: Affiliate links may be included.* Calling all horse lovers – this weeks featured book is for you! We discovered this short series at the library. We love historical fiction and my daughter is crazy about horses so these four books were totally up her alley and absolutely books we love! Each Saddles, Stars and…
Books We Love: Resistance
I’ve shared a book by Jennifer Nielsen before because it was amazing! So amazing in fact, that we have kept on reading her books one after another. The latest one we finished was Resistance and I had to feature this on books we love. Now, this is an intense and emotional topic for sure and…
Books We Love: Time Travel History Chapter Books for Kids
Time-travel history chapter books are a fantastic way to get kids excited about history in a way that makes sense to them and makes them want to know more. The characters in all of these books are similar to my kids’ ages so they can relate to them as we read along.
Books We Love: A Night Divided
This book was just a page turner with so much suspense that you just couldn’t wait to find out what happened next and every page had you on the edge of your seat trying to figure out what would happen. There were so many things thrown in and so much risk involved but we felt that we were a part of the story from the start. It had been on my list of books to read to the kids and I’m so glad we finally got to it!!! This book is pretty intense, so keep that in mind when deciding if it’s right for your family to read right now. Below you can read the back of the book to know what it is about.
Books We Love: World’s Worst Time Machine
Disclosure: Affiliate links may be included. World’s Worst Time Machine follows the story of two best friends, Max and Ava, who build a time machine in their basement. When they test it out, they find themselves transported to different points in history, from the age of dinosaurs to the future. As they travel through time, they…
Books We Love: The War That Saved My Life
*Disclosure: Affiliate links may be included. Thanks for checking them out!* I’m beyond excited to share this book, The War That Saved My Life, but first I want to share what our bedtime routine looks like to fit in these amazing books. If you don’t know this – we read – a lot! I tried…
Check out these releases from Prestel Publishing. Add these to your collection for a new favorite book to read together.
We love National Geographic Books – we read a lot of them. I’m excited to share these six books from Nat Geo Kids so watch the video to check them out. The links to see more are below. National Geographic Kids books are sure to have your kids digging in to learn more every…
Memorial Day Book Pack
Check out these incredible stories to help your children learn what a Veteran is, what Memorial Day means and so much more.
Books We Love: The Last Tree
The Last Tree is a great visual for kids of how our actions alter the world around us and how one person can make a big difference.
Books We Love: So Tall Within
Journey along with Sojourner Truth on her long walk toward freedom in So Tall Within.
Books We Love: Toliver’s Secret
*Disclosure: Affiliate links may be included.* I love when I can sneak in some history by reading an interesting story that really has a lot of historical information and the kids don’t know! You see, this book – Toliver’s Secret is about a young, ten-year-old girl who disguises herself as a boy to deliver a…
Books We Love: The Magic Attic Club Megan’s Masquerade
Reading is a passion of mine and discovering amazing books for my kids is always so much fun. The Magic Attic Club is a fantastic book series for kids to read and learn about history.
Books We Love: Little Kids First Big Book of the Ocean
*Disclosure: Affiliate links may be included.* A little over a week ago, I posted a giveaway for some Shark Week books your kids will love! While the giveaway may be over, I am so excited to share one of those books with you. Henry and I have been reading the Little Kids First Big Book…