If you haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Grandma Dowdel, you have another chance in A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck, a companion novel to the NewberyAward winning A Year Down Yonder and A Long Way From Chicago. And well, if you don’t know who Grandma Dowdel is then you are simply missing out [...]
I hope that everybody had a great Thanksgiving holiday if you are here in the states! I had a fantastic time sluffing all of my blog responsibilities and not posting a thing! (That’s not to say that I wasn’t working hard on a new reading challenge that I’m helping to host – I’ll be [...]
Saying Grace: A Prayer of Thanksgiving by Virginia Krull and illustrated by Timothy Ladwig is a lovely new book on the importance of prayer and gratitude for our blessing. Although saying grace or blessing our food wasn’t a new idea among early American settlers and the custom was practiced as early as biblical times, this [...]
Yum! ¡MmMm! ¡Qué Rico! Americas’ Sproutings is a fantastic collection of haiku by Pat Mora accompanied by illustrations from Rafael López.
Have you ever thought about where some of your favorite foods come from? This Thanksgiving as you sit down to pumpkin or pecan pie, mashed potatoes, corn, or cranberry sauce, think about if you know [...]
My father-in-law has often joked (but totally serious) that Spanish is the language that we speak in heaven. He loves the language. He’s fluent in Spanish and uses it on a daily basis in his work and my mother-in-law recently learned it as well while they attended an all Spanish speaking congregation for church. [...]
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