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Math! It's not just for elementary school anymore! (My favorite early math picture books)
Did you know learning about math begins early? I'm not talking learning to add and subtract, I'm talking about foundational math skills ,...
Mary K
Sep 192 min read
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Favorite Books of 2024 - Picture Book Edition
Look, it's well into February and I'm finally getting around to writing about my favorite books of the previous year! Let's just say that...
Mary K
Feb 288 min read
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Favorite Books for Preschoolers
Oh, preschoolers are fun. They've got OPINIONS and FACTS (about dinosaurs and firetrucks and Disney characters) and THINGS TO TELL YOU....
Mary K
Dec 23, 20249 min read
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Plant the seeds of reading with these fun picture books about plants!
In my monthly library program, I choose an early literacy theme on which to focus. In November it was vocabulary - or, more specifically,...
Mary K
Dec 11, 20242 min read
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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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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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