One of the highlights of last summer was releasing the 2019 Summer Reading Chart with Hadley Designs. I absolutely LOVED seeing thousands of families download it and use it to make their summer reading a little extra special. And I was EXTRA delighted to have so many people ask if we were going to do another one this year. ARE…
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If you’ve been reading my blog for five minutes, you know I’m a huge audiobook lover. I feel like audiobooks are the best way to get in more reading when your life doesn’t leave a lot of room for lying in bed with a book for hours at a time. Over the past few months, I’ve been listening to more…
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Week of May 18, 2020 Monday: Baked Meatballs in Tomato Cream Sauce Angel Hair Pasta Green Salad Snack: Chocolate banana smoothie Tuesday: Buddha Bowls Watermelon Snack: Molasses Cookies Wednesday: Breakfast Burritos Smoothie Snack: Celery with peanut butter and dried cranberries Thursday: Burgers Sweet potato fries Snack: Greek yogurt with granola Friday: Pizza Night Snack: Lemon Energy Balls Saturday: Date Night…
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I’ve been up to my eyeballs in all my summer reading projects this week, from the 100 Picture Book list that launched yesterday to the Summer Reading Chart and Summer Reading Guide that launch next week. But I couldn’t NOT share a handful of book deals you DEFINITELY do not want to miss. 4 Book Deals You Won’t Want to…
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It’s a little bit crazy to me that, up until 12 years ago, picture books weren’t on my radar at ALL. I’ve always been a huge reader, but all my reading was focused on longer books. Then, as a grad student doing a master’s degree in library science, I took a class about picture books from a professor who’d served…
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