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Books We Love: The War That Saved My Life

by summers1405 March 17, 2023March 17, 2023.

*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…

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by summers1405 January 5, 2022January 5, 2022.

Check out these releases from Prestel Publishing. Add these to your collection for a new favorite book to read together.

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by summers1405 September 21, 2021.

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…

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Memorial Day Book Pack

by summers1405 May 24, 2021May 24, 2021.

Check out these incredible stories to help your children learn what a Veteran is, what Memorial Day means and so much more.

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Books We Love: The Last Tree

by summers1405 March 13, 2021March 13, 2021.

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.

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Books We Love: So Tall Within

by summers1405 February 18, 2021February 18, 2021.

Journey along with Sojourner Truth on her long walk toward freedom in So Tall Within.

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Books We Love: Toliver’s Secret

by summers1405 November 8, 2020November 8, 2020.

*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…

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Books We Love: The Magic Attic Club Megan’s Masquerade

by summers1405 October 18, 2020October 18, 2020.

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 Oean
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Books We Love: Little Kids First Big Book of the Oean

by summers1405 August 20, 2020August 19, 2020.

*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…

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Books We Love: I Survived

by summers1405 June 21, 2020.

*Disclosure:  Affiliate links may be included.* Raise your hand if you have kids who love these I Survived books! I’ve been reading them to my five and seven-year-olds at bedtime and they beg for more chapters every night. These exciting adventures take them back in time to real events that have taken place. Page after…

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Books We Love: Last Stop on Market Street

by summers1405 March 13, 2020March 13, 2020.

*Disclosure:  Affiliate links may be included.* I love books that show amazing character traits that I want my kids to see and hear about day after day. We have been using Beautiful Feet Books Character Training and we absolutely love it because it is packed with so many books that do exactly that – show…

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Books We Love: Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims

by summers1405 February 28, 2020.

*Disclosure:  Affiliate links may be included in this post.*   Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims is a laugh-out-loud story about time travel adventures with exceptional Americans.  Journey back to the pilgrims with Liberty – a talking, sarcastic horse. In this entertaining story, you journey back in time to ask questions like why do you…

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Books We Love: History Uncovered – The U.S.A.

by summers1405 February 21, 2020.

Discovering the history of the U.S.A. is so much fun in this die-cut book showing how the United States has changed over time.

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Books We Love: Usborne Beginners History Box Set

by summers1405 February 8, 2020February 10, 2020.

  *Disclosure:  Affiliate links may be included.* We already have the science and animals box sets so this was a must add to our home library. These books are very inviting to look at with fantastic pictures. The short tidbits of information your child learns throughout really stick in their heads. These books are so…

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Books We Love: Blogging Through the Alphabet – B

by summers1405 January 31, 2020January 31, 2020.

Books We Love is a weekly segment where we feature one or more books from the week that we have enjoyed reading. Come check out this week’s books that start with the letter B.

Books We Love:  Waiting for Winter
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Books We Love: Waiting for Winter

by summers1405 January 10, 2020January 10, 2020.

*Affiliate links may be included.*   Waiting for Winter is an adorable and silly book about some winter animals who were trying to figure out what snow was. They discovered one thing after another that fit what they thought snow was….only it wasn’t. I’m sad this book is out of print now because we love…

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Books We Love: Appaloosy

by summers1405 November 17, 2019.

*Disclosure:  Affiliate links may be included.* Hey all! Remember that horse obsessed daughter of mine? Guess what? She has discovered some new horse books that are a little different than most of them. They are written from the horses perspective and covers a certain era in history. Appaloosy is the first book in the series.…

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Books We Love: Women of the Bible

by summers1405 November 2, 2019.

*Disclosure:  Affiliate links may be included in this post.*   I had spent a ton of time looking for a bible study I could do that was not super time intensive but that I could fit into my days.  I put Women of the Bible on my Secret Santa list last year and got it.  I enjoy…

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Books We Love: Amazing Women

by summers1405 October 12, 2019October 12, 2019.

*Disclosure:  Affiliate links may be included.* I was reading some article on the internet this morning about how by age 10 most girls are giving up on their dreams while that isn’t the same for boys. {I seriously wish I could find the article to link to it}. My goal as a mom is to…

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Learning to Read with the Usborne Very First Reading Library

by summers1405 September 24, 2019.

I have to say – having worked on learning to read with two of my kids so far – the experience with them both has been so very different. How we have approached it and what works best for each of them is different too. No surprise there – right? I’m excited to see what…

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