Wonderful parent reading resource book

This book is amazing! There are thousands of books referenced and the author gives very useful descriptions of all of them. She gives pointers about choosing books for your child and how to inspire them to be life-long readers. Themed activities are also included. Her writing style is so engaging that you will want to read all the books she writes about! I've been teaching for many years and I still use this book to help me find a fiction or non-fiction book on a particular topic.



I learned about Esme Raji Codell through her book, "Educating Esme". This book chronicles her first year of teaching at an elementary school in Chicago. She is very candid about her experiences and writes about them not only with humour, but also with a deep respect for her students and her profession. Teachers will thoroughly enjoy her successes and trials and non-teachers will appreciate all the things that teachers do in the course of a school year! I believe in the power of this book so much that I always give a copy to my student teachers as a gift, to thank them for their help in our classroom.

First Day of School Read Aloud

This is my FAVOURITE book to read on the first day of school. (It was also a favourite read aloud book of my two sons.) It is a lovely story that introduced me to the tradition of placing a kiss in a child's hand as a reminder during the school day of the power of a mother's love. A wonderful heart-warming story with beautiful illustrations.