In years past, this annual read-aloud round-up consisted of the top books we enjoyed together from the previous twelve months. However, this...

Last month at my book club, I was handed a title that I knew nothing about. Since I'm not in charge of choosing our monthly selections, ...

In the last few years, I've noticed a trend on Instagram. My feed has been flooded with wonderfully curated pictures of poetry tea times...

There's an unwritten rule imposed upon homeschool families that would have us all believing new novels are bad. Always. We're suppos...

According to the Pew Research Center , the number of kids who are reading just for fun is at the lowest it's been since 1984. Kids aren...

At the close of every calendar year, usually on some cold December afternoon, I pull out my running list of "Books We've Read Toget...

Libby has been a kind companion to me this past month. Even during a rather busy season, I've been able to slam through a handful of tit...

Since they were very little, I’ve always allowed my kids to select picture books at the public library. Before checking them out, I quickly ...

This past Thursday, I hosted the first meeting of the year for my son's tween/teen book club. Since there are six new members, we used q...

(This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosure policy for full details.) I picked up Tweet Cute  from the library several we...

Since the moment I was old enough to stumble my way through the one-vowel words of a Dick and Jane classic, I've been told never to judg...

This past weekend while speaking at the annual North Dakota Homeschool Association conference, I received a lovely card from Wendy, a long-t...

We're now deep into the first month of the new year and while my kids and I have started many books these past few weeks, we haven't...

Our read-aloud time in 2020 was bittersweet. We read so many great books and made so many literary memories together, but we made most of th...

I probably don't need to tell you that 2020 was a weird year. Like the rest of the world, I had to forfeit many plans. My calendar was c...

I've hit the reading lottery this month! At the end of November, I chose to start two books written by new-to-me authors--one fiction an...

Not all fiction books are created equal. Granted, they all tell stories, but those stories are often written for different purposes and with...

The other day, my youngest three sons asked if they could have a later bedtime in order that they could stay up to read. Of course, I let th...

All good things must come to an end. Or at least that's what I've been told. After 16 years of sitting by my side for our daily read...

High school is a time when the loose opinions of childhood begin to solidify. It's a time when many Christian teens begin to stand on th...