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Book Review: Hidden Wonders If you’re someone who enjoys discovering new places and learning about things that are “stranger than fiction,” you need to check out Nicole Maggi’s Hidden Wonders: A Guide to the Planet’s Wildest, Weirdest Places. Published by Lonely Planet Kids (an imprint of Lonely Planet’s) in November 2019, this book is geared toward … Read more
Book Review: The Lion and the Mouse The full title of this book is actually The Lion & the Mouse and Other Aesop’s Fables. The 12 stories in the book were retold by world-renowned author Doris Orgel, and the illustrator was Bert Kitchen (known for his realistic portrayals of animals). Aesop lived in ancient Greece … Read more
Reading Aloud Is the Key My early love for reading aloud (and being read to in a classroom setting almost daily by my 2nd grade teacher) led me to sign up for a class in Children’s Literature several years into my career as a journalist. It was a class that was considered a prerequisite for … Read more