Books for Kids
Favorite Children’s Books for Spring
Does your family celebrate the changing of each season? Spring is always an exciting time with so much happening in the great outdoors. Help your kids notice and understand the signs of spring by reading some of these wonderful books together!
Favorite Children’s Books for Easter
Are there certain books you always read with your family to prepare for special holidays? Every year at my house we pull out the same special children’s books for Easter.
A Pot o’Gold: More Irish Culture for Kids
What we love about this collection of “Irish stories, poetry, folklore, and (of course) blarney”: Brief selections. Perfect for kids! I tend to read one or two to the boys as they finish up breakfast or lunch. Excellent explanations. Each selection begins with a short description of pertinent background information, including remarks about the author.…
10 Simple Ways to Weave Holiday Traditions Into Everyday Life
Here at the Yankee Homestead, we love getting into the spirit for holidays and seasonal celebrations. We don’t do anything too elaborate, certainly nothing that would land on anyone’s Pinterest board. 🙂 Children love to celebrate, and I find that holidays make a great jumping off point for learning about all sorts of things–culture, history,…
A Wee Bit o’ Irish Culture
Tales from Old Ireland So I’m about 1/4 Irish. (And 1/4 Mexican + 1/2 German. Amish-German, to be exact. But that’s definitely a story for another day…) Mr. Native Texan also boasts some UK heritage. Not from Ireland exactly, but close enough to make the Emerald Isle dear to his heart. Even without familiar…
Children’s Books for St. Patrick’s Day
Looking for the best Children’s Books for St. Patrick’s Day ?
Winter Nature Walk on the W&OD Trail (& excellent nature biography for kids)
Background Info: Older Brother and I just finished reading this awesome book, The Flower Hunter, about William Bartram, America’s first naturalist. His father, John Bartram, was America’s first botanist. So, so fun to read about their explorations as they studied and gathered plants. As a botanist, John Bartram taught his son William to observe nature…
Favorite Valentine’s Day Books for Children
Happy February! It’s the month of love. Want to know which books we enjoy reading during the first half of February, in honor of Valentine’s Day? You’re in luck! Our top picks are listed below.
Happy Winter: this year’s favorite winter book
Happy Winter by Karen Gundersheimer is our new favorite children’s book for winter. (Last year, it was Red Fox Running by Eve Bunting, of which I can still recite the first four lines: Red fox running, / Running through the snow, / White sky above / And white earth below. / ). We discovered Happy…
Exploring Nature with Kids: Winter Nature Walk
The boys and I enjoyed (for the most part) a Winter Nature Walk with some friends yesterday. Read more about our nature buddies here: 5 Tips for a Successful Nature Walk with Kids: {#1 Find a Buddy}. We hit a trail near our friends’ home–not really a destination per se, but a convenient location for us.…