Tag: reading
REVIEW – Beast Friends Forever: The Super Swap-O-Surprise
BEAST FRIENDS FOREVER: THE SUPER SWAP-O-SURPRISE! Author: Nate Evans and Vince Evans Reading level: Ages 9-12 Paperback: 128 pages Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky (August 1, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1402240511 ISBN-13: 978-1402240515 ABOUT BEAST FRIENDS FOREVER: THE SUPER SWAP-O-SURPRISE Nine-year-old Zeke and his seven-year-old sister Hannah have a furry, two-foot-tall beast named Otto living under Zeke’s [...]
31 Day Challenge – My Favorite Book Or Author
Today’s prompt in the 31 Day Challenge is Your favorite book or author. I don’t have one favorite book or author. How can I confine myself to just one? Some of my favorite authors are JK Rowling, Piers Anthony, Jonathan Kellerman, Faye Kellerman, Patricia Cornwall and VC Andrews. I love to read. When I was [...]
2010 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE – Lost In Lexicon
I love to read. I think it’s great that this book fosters the use of the reader’s imagination while encouraging the use of vocabulary and numbers. This book would make a great holiday gift for the child who loves to read, as well as for the child you’d like to encourage to read more. LOST [...]
Reading Is Fundamental – Help Save The RIF Program
I’ve always loved reading. I think reading is one of the most important things that a child can learn to do. That saying “reading is fundamental”? It’s true. Without the ability to read everything is limited – education, career and even financial matters. Everyone should learn how to read. I recently learned that President Obama’s [...]
Words Move Me – Sony Reader Giveaway
What moves you? The two things that move me the most are my children and knowledge. Knowledge takes many forms and my favorite form, by far, is the English language. That’s right – words. I love words. To me, words are interesting. They form knowledge. And you know the old saying – knowledge is power. [...]
Daniel X – Watch The Skies Book Review
Last summer I reviewed a book entitled The Dangerous Days Of Daniel X, by James Patterson, on Val’s Views. The Dangerous Days was the beginning of a series Patterson had started writing with the specific purpose of getting young boys to want to read. I wonder if he realized how many girls (and moms) would [...]
Your Baby Can Read Giveaway
I’m a great believer in the importance of learning to read. I was fortunate in that my Mom taught me how to read at a very early age. She was a teacher who knew it’s better to teach children to read as young as possible, rather then to let it wait until the child goes [...]
One Fifth Avenue review
I love to read. I always have. I haven’t made as much time for reading as I could in the past couple of months and I promised myself I would try and change that. Uninterrupted I can finish most books within two days or less, but I wasn’t able to read uninterrupted this time around. [...]
The Secret Mountain review and giveaway
I was an early reader. I have always enjoyed reading and have tried to teach my son that reading can be a lot of fun. I believe that reading by and with a parent is a big part of the formation of a person’s appreciation for reading and there’s no age to young to be [...]
