Book reviews

Most of the time, I use print curriculum as a springboard to help me plan alternate ways of getting at a lesson. I have ways that I like to supplement. I have trusted resources I bring in. I will drop everything if the lesson is bombing and run in a completely...

I am a curriculum snob. For me, curriculum is a tool, something I use to help me learn what the group I’m working with already knows and how to help them use that to understand the new concept we’re working with. Good curriculum is flexible for settings and people....

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**Our winner is Jennifer Pierce! Congratulations! Check your email!** I have mentioned before how much my children enjoy Glenys Nellist’s books and it’s time to get one of these fabulous titles into your hands. This giveaway is sponsored by the publisher,...

As a child, I had a fear of a tree in our backyard. It was gnarled and had a hollow in it that looked like gremlins would pour out of in the dark. The fear of this tree was at its height around the time I heard about God being everywhere. I had attended my first VBS...

I am a bit of an Advent snob. If something purports to be an Advent resource, it has to have the flexibility to stretch through the entirety of Advent. If it always starts on December 1 and ends on December 24, it’s a Christmas countdown, not Advent, thank you very...

Around our home, the way to solving any problem is usually through some combination of hugs, books, and food. Is someone sad? Let’s have some hot cocoa and chat. Are people bickering? Let’s pop popcorn, listen to an audiobook, and hang out. Is someone out of sorts or...

One of the best pieces of parenting advice I ever received was to ‘fill the kid’s well’. It was shorthand for paying attention, interacting with, and spending time with children so they did not feel that they needed to fill their emptiness with things that are...

It’s no secret that I love books. I love old books, new books, even e-books. I have floor to ceiling bookcases in every room in my house, save for the kitchen, which can only fit a small half shelf to cradle my most beloved cookbooks. No one is surprised that I...

I’ve been a fan of the original edition of All Creation Waits for a few years now. In fact, I like it so much that I used it as part of the parent/caregiver book club for our Advent Holy Moments this year. Imagine my excitement when I found out that the...