For thousands of years, people have been using flowers as medicine. Flower Power: The Magic of Nature’s Healers celebrates some of the garden’s blooms.
Browsing: ages 8 & up
It finally feels like spring! The following are some spectacular picture books that will help young readers embrace all nature has to offer.
White House photographer Amanda Lucidon gives young readers an inside look at what life was like for First Lady Michell Obama in Reach Higher.
G. Neri & David Litchfield’s When Paul Met Artie is not your typical picture book. This one is clearly intended for middle-graders, and they will love it.
Simonetta Carr’s “Michelangelo for Kids” is worth your money. It’s an amped up picture book/scaled-down history book that’s inviting and interesting.
Each year, Cracking the Cover creates a list of books that readers most likely will enjoy as gifts. The following are my picks for 2014 picture books for more advanced readers.
“SCHOLASTIC DISCOVER MORE: TECHNOLOGY,” by Clive Gifford, Paperback, May 1, 2012, $15.99 (ages 8 and up) and “SCHOLASTIC DISCOVER MORE: NIGHT…
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been holding on to returns and gift cards in hopes of avoiding the massive…
“VAN GOGH AND THE POST-IMPRESSIONISTS FOR KIDS: Their Lives and Ideas, 21 Activities” (For Kids series), by Carol Sabbeth, Chicago…
“TIME FOR KIDS BIG BOOK OF HOW,” by Editors of Time for Kids Magazine, Time for Kids, June 7, 2011,…