Articles about 'Kids Books'
September 28th, 2011
In our house, The Phantom Tollbooth is one of our favorite children’s novels. Now you can watch a short YouTube video featuring the author (Norton Juster) and the illustrator (Jules Feiffer) of The Phantom Tollbooth. It’s 50 years since they created it.
In October, The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth will come out. You’ll be able to...
March 31st, 2010
Amber wrote:
Hello, I was wondering if you knew any titles of children’s books that are written in Portuguese? I teach a class of two year olds and one of my students has a birthday coming up soon and I want to get her some books. She’s from Brazil and speaks Portuguese. Of...
March 2nd, 2010
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss and thank you for all the entertainment you’ve given us throughout the years!
Here’s a cool Seuss link Ed Gawlinski sent me…
Who’s Who and What’s What in the Books of Dr. Seuss
And now some pearls from Dr. Seuss himself…
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no...
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February 22nd, 2010
The Three Little Kittens book illustrated by Kate Greenaway was just posted online at Project Gutenberg. It’s an adaptation of the poem The Three Little Kittens (A Cat’s Tale, with Additions) that was most likely written by Eliza Lee Follen. At the 2nd link you can read the traditional version of the poem and...
August 27th, 2009
I love the story of The Gingerbread Man!
Here you can hear someone doing a nice reading of it on YouTube…
Enjoy!
Mama Lisa
May 9th, 2009
SINGING
OF speckled eggs the birdie sings And nests among the trees; The sailor sings of ropes and things In ships upon the seas.
The children sing in far Japan, The children sing in Spain; The organ with the organ man ...
October 17th, 2008
Kids are funny.
My daughter was recently playing on her Gameboy (the handheld gaming system). I said something to her, but she was so absorbed that she completely didn’t hear. So I commented to her friend, who was also there, that my daughter was lost in another world. Her friend asked,...
April 4th, 2008
In my last post I mentioned that sticker books are a good way for kids to pass time on a plane. They’re also good for doctor appointments and any other situation where kids have to wait.
My daughter particularly loves the series of sticker books put out by Barnes and Noble. Each...
January 5th, 2008
My friend David wrote to me about a new site he created…
Hi Lisa,
Happy New Year!
As you know, I usually indicate links to you that relate to free resources, but on this particular occasion I would draw your kind attention to some children’s books by a friend of mine, which are for sale. I have...
January 3rd, 2008
I’ve been asked twice in the past week for free multilingual books.
Here’s a link I found called Books in Multiple Languages. They have English children’s books with translations in Spanish, French, Polish, Italian, Romanian, German, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, Maori, Greek, Dutch, Farsi (Persian), Afrikaans, Croatian, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Arabic, Hebrew,...
April 14th, 2007
The International Children’s Digital Library is a wonderful site to visit with children where you can read online books in many different languages. You can choose to browse books by country, by age group, and by language. They have picture books for young kids, and chapter books for more advanced readers.
You...
March 20th, 2007
Kevin wrote:
Hello My name is Kevin Dahl, and I am looking for a book title to a children’s book my wife and I used to read to our son. We read this book so many times we both have it memorized many years later.
The words are…
To sup like a pup
To gulp it all up
no napkin,...
November 27th, 2005
Last night my husband, my son and I went to see the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie.
I think everyone should read the Harry Potter series. They’re highly imaginative and fun. The first book was the best so far. The later ones are (needlessly) too long. But...
November 27th, 2005
My four year old daughter loves this book and TV show. It’s about a little bear, a cat, a duck, a hen, an owl, and a girl with her doll.
The stories are about the simple joys in a kid’s life, like wishing upon a star, pretending to go to the moon,...
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