Huddle up, girls, because we are talking sports books today! Sports stories written by none other than Mike Lupica, syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and TV anchor for ESPN’s The Sports Reporters. I remember reading my first Mike Lupica book at home and PC stopping me to say ‘hey, that books is […]
Help YOUR Kids Beat the Summer Slide 2016: Great Books to Share
Dearest Readers, Welcome to the first post of this second year of my “Summer Slide” series. The ‘summer slide’ is the two+ months of academic knowledge lost by school age children during summer vacation. [source] The greatest losses are in the area of mathematical computation among all students and in math and reading among children […]
Title Talk: Books I’ve Been Reading Lately and a Link-Up
Huh-lo, gentle readers! Linking-up today with Alison at Puppies and Pretties for her “Reading Lately” series, January edition. I am reviewing the book(s) I’ve been reading lately. One of my goals for 2015 was to read at least one grown-up book a month. I did pretty well toward fulfilling that goal. But I also read a […]
TGIFTF, Thank Goodness, It’s Fairy Tale (Folktale) Friday: One Potato, Two Potato
Mirror, mirror on my wall Who’s the silliest blogger of all? Why me, of course. I am! TGIFTF, girls! Thank Goodness, It’s Fairy Tale Friday. It is actually Thursday night but guess who doesn’t have to work tomorrow? Oh, yeah, baby! Me. So this is my Friday night. And as much as I am loving […]
Help YOUR Kids Beat the Summer Slide: Great Books to Share, Part 2
[source] Gentle readers, great parents and grandparents! So glad you are joining me for the second installment of my ‘beat the summer slide’ series. Please click here to read more about the summer slide and my first book review of the series. I have invited a number of my librarian and teacher friends to share […]
Help YOUR Kids Beat the Summer Slide: A Great Book to Read With Your Kids
Dear Readers, Wednesday was the last day of school in the El Paso Independent School District. From what I can tell in talking with my friends around the state and country, we were the very last school district on the planet to let out for summer. We had to get in all that extra learning […]
