Full Disclosure: The book links below are through the Amazon Affiliates Program. The first link (Canada) is to amazon.ca, the second (US) to amazon.com. If you buy a book through a link, I get more books from Amazon to sate our bibliophilic tendencies. For more book recommendations, see the “Books We Love” tab at the [...]
Full Disclosure: The book links below are through the Amazon Affiliates Program. The first link (Canada) is to amazon.ca, the second (US) to amazon.com. If you buy a book through a link, I get more books from Amazon to sate our bibliophilic tendencies. For more book recommendations, see the “Books We Love” tab at the [...]
Full Disclosure: The book links below are through the Amazon Affiliates Program. The first link (Canada) is to amazon.ca, the second (US) to amazon.com. If you buy a book through a link, I get more books from Amazon to sate our bibliophilic tendencies. For more book recommendations, see the “Books We Love” tab at the [...]
The boys and I recently read A Bear Called Paddington (a fuller review in my forthcoming Reading Round-Up), and I was struck by the complex sentence structure and vocabulary of this book published in 1958—it seemed so much richer than much of the literature for young children today. My impressions were no doubt heightened as [...]
Full Disclosure: The book links below are through the Amazon Affiliates Program. The first link (Canada) is to amazon.ca, the second (US) to amazon.com. If you buy a book through a link, I get more books from Amazon to sate our bibliophilic tendencies. For more book recommendations, see the “Books We Love” tab at the [...]
Full Disclosure: The book links below are through the Amazon Affiliates Program. The first link (Canada) is to amazon.ca, the second (US) to amazon.com. If you buy a book through a link, I get more books from Amazon to sate our bibliophilic tendencies. For more book recommendations, see the “Books We Love” tab at the [...]
Full Disclosure: The book links below are through the Amazon Affiliates Program. The first link (Canada) is to amazon.ca, the second (US) to amazon.com. If you buy a book through a link, I get more books from Amazon to sate our bibliophilic tendencies. For more book recommendations, see the “Books We Love” tab at the [...]
The boys and I did some shopping this morning, trying to get it out of the way before the regular school kids are out for teacher’s convention (tomorrow and Friday) and Family Day (Monday). Our first stop was Indigo Books, where Daegan used the last bit of his birthday gift card (from last June!) to [...]
Last week I was at the library doing some homeschool with Daegan while Gareth was at his Sportball class—you’ve never seen a 7-year-old work so efficiently, knowing that if he dawdles, there will be no time left for browsing dinosaur books! On the sale table I found this awesome resource, published in 2006: The first [...]
I recently discovered Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project blog, and in addition to all kinds of fascinating material and inspirational quotes, she has oodles and oodles of book suggestions—enough to keep even a bibliophile like myself happy for months! One of the most provocative and insightful books I read off her list is Barry Schwartz’s The [...]