“Your visit pushed me to…dream big dreams.” –Daniel We love the thank-you notes we receive from the students we visit via Skype in the classroom, and these are no exception! This week, we worked with a group of 3rd and 4th graders attending a camp. On that day, they
We love our Mom-son author visits with students! This year, we visited kids from all over the US–plus students in Qatar and other countries–via Skype in the classroom and the Microsoft Educator Community ! To date, we’ve “traveled” 470,000 kilometers, visited 12 countries and earned a Certified Microsoft Innovative Educator badge!
For Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2017–which aims to raise awareness about the need to include children’s books that celebrate diversity in home and school bookshelves–we reviewed the “Barefoot Book of Children.” Beautifully illustrated and full of fascinating detail, the book takes kids on an eye-opening world journey. It made us
By Lisa Cohn Two Roving Reader Leaders–a club created by me and Michael–appeared on live TV yesterday to share their love of reading and discuss their book reviews and author interviews. With teddy bears in hand, they discussed their favorite books and their recent interview with Troy Cummings, the popular
Four Roving Reader Leaders–fans of children’s book author and illustrator Troy Cummings–demonstrated their love and knowledge of Cummings’ Notebook of Doom series in a fun Skype interview with the author. During the interview, the boys, age 8-11, members of the Roving Reader Leaders, informed Cummings of when his next book
Keep an eye out for our next Kidlit author interview! Four of our Roving Reader Leaders, age 8-11, interviewed one of their favorite authors recently via Skype. The boys were excited and nervous, but asked great questions and came away from the interview very inspired. Watch our last author interview
Our Bash and Lucy Fetch Jealousy audiobook, recorded with the help of Michael and his friends Edward, Matthew and Adam (age 6-8 at the time of recording) is a bestseller on Audible in two categories–animals and fiction (children’s books). You can buy the audiobook download for $3.46 here: Bash and Lucy
What prompts an 8-year-old budding book reviewer to shout “I love this book!” while swinging from a rope swing (while clutching the book in hand?). In this case, Michael, our budding KidLit reviewer, says the book, “Teddy Mars: Book #1: Almost a World Record Breaker” prompted the excitement. He stayed
Love, Gratitude and Wonder for Guide Dogs for the Blind By Lisa Cohn At a tears-filled Guide Dogs for the Blind graduation ceremony Saturday in Boring, Oregon, human graduates of the program expressed love, gratitude and wonder for how their guide dogs can change their lives. Michael and I attended
By Lisa Cohn Our “Bash and Lucy” book project began with a sad event–the death of our beloved dog, Lucy, about three years ago. To help us overcome our grief, Michael, who was 5 at the time, and I decided to write a series of children’s books that starred