Title: Rascal Author: Sterling North File Under: Read-Aloud, Chapter Book, Coming of Age Age Group*: 8-12 Keeping the theme of books for boys (if you can call my not posting in the Library Project for quite a while “keeping a theme”), I would love to remind you of Rascal. Really good children’s books express… Read More »
Ask Auntie Leila: The Difficult Five-Year-Old Boy
We are here, waiting for this baby, so I thought I’d do an Ask Auntie Leila, as there seems to be a veritable epidemic of boys out there who are misbehaving in a major way. It’s funny how the emails I get definitely go in waves. Right now we are apparently… Read More »
Booth Tarkington’s Penrod ~ Library Project
Title: Penrod* Author: Booth Tarkington File Under: Read-Aloud, Humor, American Memory Age Range**: 9 and up If you sense that a boy is a creature whose behavior, though accompanied by disaster and dirt, does not really need to be medicated out of him, however uncomfortable a future this consigns you to, this is the book… Read More »
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The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature at Like Mother, Like Daughter! From The Art of Manliness – see link below I’ll start off with the post from which the above photo was taken: Quotations on manliness and what it means to be a man from The Art of Manliness. There’s a… Read More »
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The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature at Like Mother, Like Daughter! It’s May! Did anyone else hear that “whoosh” sound as April just flew by? What was up with that?! Favorite recent Pinterest find: How ADORABLE is this blanket?! From Babies in KnitwearYou can follow me on Pinterest here As a little… Read More »