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Picture books to develop empathy
Sharing picture books is a great way to grow social-emotional skills like empathy. Reading a story offers a great opportunity to put...
Mary K
Oct 27, 20242 min read
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Let's learn about shapes and letters through picture books!
Did you know that learning about shapes helps with learning letters and numbers? It does! Being able to recognize shapes helps with...
Mary K
Oct 8, 20242 min read
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Great picture books about colors!
Every month I share a booklist to go along with the theme of the program I'm doing at my library that month. This month we're exploring...
Mary K
Aug 10, 20242 min read
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Would You Rather... Book Edition!
The past couple of days, I had the opportunity to work at my library's maker booth at Denver's FanExpo. I've done it several times...
Mary K
Jul 6, 20245 min read
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Favorite books for babies ages 12 - 18 months
More books for babies! We might be getting a little more complicated here, but not much. But books will start having more of a story arc...
Mary K
Jun 12, 20242 min read
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Favorite books for young babies ages 6 - 12 months
Continuing the list of board books for babies, we're now getting into books with maybe a little more plot (rather than just pages with...
Mary K
May 5, 20242 min read
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Favorite books for infants ages 0 - 6 months
So, first, I admit, "babies" is a broad category. There is a difference between what a newborn might respond to versus a 9 month old...
Mary K
May 5, 20244 min read
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Bombastic Side-eye: Unreliable Narrators in Picture Books.
*[cross-posted on In The Writer’s Web] I realized recently that two of my manuscripts have unreliable narrators. One is a “voice...
Mary K
May 2, 20243 min read
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Favorite books for Toddlers
What do toddlers like in picture books? What kinds of books will keep them most engaged? Young toddlers are still developing their...
Mary K
Apr 28, 20244 min read
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