Count me as one of those people who thinks that exposing kids to foreign languages as soon as possible is a good idea. To me
UPDATE 11/13/14: I received a comment from a reader, which you can read below, addressing a major error in my post. As someone whose family
If you follow Read It, Make It! on Facebook, you probably saw my announcement last week that author Kate DiCamillo won the 2014 Newbery Medal.
We aren’t Chinese, nor do we have close Chinese friends, so we don’t really celebrate Chinese New Year. However, I found an amazing little book
Last week, I shared an amazing vintage Soviet children’s book that I found in a used book store. Today, I’m sharing the companion to that
The world lost a legend yesterday. This is my favorite picture of Pete Seeger. He’s in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during 1964’s Freedom Summer. Read more here,
We’re getting a new roof today. It’s exciting, in that we won’t have to worry about leaks. It’s unexciting, in that it’s a very expensive
I’ll bet you read that title and were expecting a little waving Lenin, weren’t you? As you may have noticed, Russian culture and I have
There are a million websites already talking about Dr. King and his holiday, and I’m not going to be the million and first to make
Y’all. This is how I feel when Bethany asks me a dinosaur-related question: In truth, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs at her age, so