Inside: 20+ books about cake for kids: delightful and exciting picture books for elementary grades and board books for the little ones. It’s been said “a party without a cake is just a meeting,” and I haven’t met anyone who would disagree with this statement. Do you? Can you imagine a birthday party without a cake?…
Category: Kids Reading List
Girls Can Do Anything: a book list to inspire your daughter
Inside: Girls can do anything is a book list to inspire your daughter to believe in herself, dream big, and color outside the lines. Did you hear many sexist comments when you were growing up? I did. Women “couldn’t” drive, play soccer, or run companies. Women’s place was at home raising children, and a…
Vroom Vroom Garbage Truck by Asia Citro & Troy Cummings (Review)
No surprise: We love reading books about trucks. So we jumped at a chance to review a new book by Asia Citro, an educator, mother of two children, author, blogger, and also a children’s book publisher. Disclosure: I received a free copy of this book for review. All opinions are my own. We only…
Books to get your kids swimming
Inside: We rounded up the best books about swimming and swimming lessons. These books will get your kids swimming in no time. If you are like most parents, summer is the time of the year when you plan a trip to the beach and enroll your kids in swimming lessons. Depending on your children’s…
Fabulous Dragon Books for Kids
What were your favorite dragon books when you were growing up? When my kids asked me this question, I was stumped. I’ve been reading about one hundred books a year ever since I remember, but I couldn’t remember reading one single book about dragons. After I pondered it for a bit, I came to…
15 Books About Shadows To Inspire Young Scientists
Children are innately curious about the world around them, especially when those things are a little mysterious. Shadows satisfy both these requirements by being part of our life and by creating suspense. Is it a monster or a teddy bear shadow? Over the years we have collected a few exciting books about shadows, but…
Cinderella is a boy and other Cinderella stories that caught our fancy
When I mentioned to our librarian my post Who needs another Cinderella Book, she asked what I thought of Cinderella as a boy version. I didn’t think anything because we have not come across it yet. Apparently, we were not through with Cinderella. Upon further investigation, we discovered a whole new treasure trove of Cinderella…
Nadia Activity Pack
Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn’t Sit Still by Karlin Grey. It’s free for subscribers of Kid Minds. If you are already a subscriber click HERE. If you want to become a subscriber click HERE. The activities are best suited for kids 6 and up, but the following home Olympics exercises are great from toddlerhood and…
Best Books about Goats for Kids
International Goat Day is coming up in June and to do our share in learning more about this little understood animal (no, goats do not eat tin cans, they are actually very intelligent) we have gathered the best books about goats we could find. We included books for children 3 to 8 (the age range of…
