Memories

The Magic of Notebooking
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The Magic of Notebooking

I love a new notebook, any kind of new notebook is just so inviting! From journals to binders, they call to me, they invite me in, they tug at the creative strings of my heart. Notebooking is half creativity, half academic. Let’s look into Notebooking with our children, what has worked and what hasn’t and…

Picture Book Exploration: The Night of Las Posadas, by Tomie dePaola
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Picture Book Exploration: The Night of Las Posadas, by Tomie dePaola

The Night of Las Posadas is one of our favorite Christmas picture books that we have turned into a tradition. We read it every year, on December 16th. We love the beautiful story of the miracle that might have taken place on a snowy December 16th near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tradition This is a…

A Feast of Books: Saint Nicholas and Jolabokaflod
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A Feast of Books: Saint Nicholas and Jolabokaflod

Jolabokaflod is a wonderful Icelandic tradition has recently made a grand entrance in our American literary world. The tradition is to give others books on Christmas Eve and to spend the evening reading, sipping hot cocoa and munching on cookies. Our Christmas Eve is too crazy for that, therefore we have started doing this on…

The Nutcracker, the Sugar Plum Fairy
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A Timeless Tale of Magic and Love: The Nutcracker

Every fall, they start popping up in craft and home decor stores, they are collected by many and embraced by all. What are they? Nutcrackers, of course! Everyone knows and can hum the tune of the famous ballet. Many of our little girls have had at least one experience of being on stage as a…

Geography, map compass, wonder, imagination
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Geography: Igniter of Wonder and Imagination

Geography is something that I have always enjoyed and appreciated. Map-making and map-reading have something so mysterious and magical about them. They can, literally, take you anywhere. At  A Daily Picture Book, we practice both map-reading and cartography regularly. Right now my girls and I are working on a map of the USA over a…

mother, daughter, book club, cottage tales, picture books, cottage, picnic
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Presenting: Cottage Tales, a Mother-Daughter Book Club

A little while back a dear friend came to me with an interesting project: Could I create a mother-daughter book club, similar to The Well-Read Mom, but using picture books? What an interesting project this has been! Cottage Tales From this request was born Cottage Tales, a mother-daughter monthly book club based on picture books….

Favorite Bedtime Stories, Book, light, fire, sparkles, magic
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Favorite Bedtime Stories, Part 2

This is a follow-up post to Favorite Bedtime Stories, Part 1 and The Importance of Bedtime Stories. So, your little one is growing up and ready for some more meaty bedtime stories, what do you do? You slowly move to chapter books by reading longer picture books and then short chapter books and finally dive…