by cpaige | Oct 16, 2019 | A Happy Learner, Book Reviews, Picture Books
Several years ago, I remember walking down a hallway seeing cute little crafts of a blue cat in a giant pair of shoes. I learned that his name was Pete and that kids loved him. A couple years later I somehow (I don’t remember how) stumbled upon Pete the Cat: I...
by cpaige | Jun 19, 2019 | A Happy Learner, Book Reviews, Picture Books
I found The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear a year or so ago when meandering through the bookshelves of my local thrift store. I remember that day being a particularly good book haul day, as I also found numerous classics by some of my...
by cpaige | Jun 18, 2019 | A Happy Learner, Book Reviews, Picture Books
“Picture books are two to three times as likely as parent-child conversations to include a word that isn’t among the 5,000 most common English words.” This is what Dominic Massaro, of the University of California, Santa Cruz found when studying...
by cpaige | May 22, 2019 | A Happy Learner, Book Reviews, Picture Books
I recently became aware of They All Saw a Cat, by Brendan Wenzel, after seeing it hailed as a success within the world of children’s books and publishing. A children’s book lover, I set out to make myself familiar and discover, for myself, why it has...
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