Kids Nook Reads: The Ding-Dong Bag

BOOM! BANG! CRASH! WHIZZ! FWOOF! POP!

What do all these sounds have in common? Well, in today’s story The Ding Dong Bag, they can all fit in our mom’s handbag!

The Ding Dong Bag
by Polly Peters

Kids Nook Reads: The Cloud

Have you ever just had one of those days where you feel lıke the grumpiest grump to ever exist? Then this book is for you! In Hannah Cumming’s The Cloud a little girl learns how to take her own little black cloud and make something wonderful from it!

The Cloud
by Hannah Cumming

Kids Nook Reads: The Talkative Tortoise

I’ll admit I’m a sucker for old folk tales. As a child I devoured Aesop’s Fables, stories about Greek and Egyptian gods, and the adventures of Anansi the spider. But this one, The Talkative Tortoise had me on the edge of my seat!

The Talkative Tortoise
by Andrew Fusek Peters

Kids Nook Reads: Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride

What’s this? Two book posts in a week? My stars, what is happening? Well for the last year, the Kids Nook blog has been a combination of books and activities. But coming into the 2016, we decided to make the focus of this blog about books and illustrators. We’re going to go through and update some of our old book posts (as I’m sure some of you have noticed), while also introducing some of the newer ones we’ve found. We’ll still probably have some activity posts, and a few links like we have been doing, but for now: New Year, New Us!

Enough of that, let’s get to the real fun stuff! This week we’re looking at the picture book Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride. 

Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride
by Pam Munoz Ryan
Illustrated by Brian Selznick

Kids Nook Reads: The Red Boat

Moving to a new house can be really difficult, especially if you’re also moving to a new city. You have to make new friends, meet new people, and get used to weird new things.

This week we read The Red Boat, which is a story all about finding creative ways to cope with your new environments.

The Red Boat
By Hannah Cumming

Setting Goals for 2016 (The Kid Friendly Way!)

Tomorrow is officially a new year, and if you’re like me than you are Pumped and Ready to set some awesome goals! If you want to get your kids in on this goal-oriented action, then take a look at the links below. I’ve rustled up some fun ways to get your kids in a future-oriented mindset. Even if they never achieve their goals (like so many of us), it’s still a good thing to get them thinking about these things.

1. Get them prepped with some great books about perseverance (I am a sucker for Oliver Jeffers and the Elephant and Piggie series)

2. For your smaller kids, visualizing and drawing out goals can be great!

3. Here’s a great sheet for your older kids…

4. And lastly, find some books about making mistakes (because none of us are perfect when it comes to New Years Resolutions)

Have a happy New Year everyone! See you in 2016!

Kids Nook Reads: Oliver

As much fun as it is to day-dream and to work out your imagination, some times you need to be in the real world.

This week we meet Oliver, a happy boy with a big imagination but a bit of a problem.

Oliver
by Birgitta Sif

Best Posts of 2015

We’ve had an amazing year at Kids Nook, trying all kinds of new programs and new games. Part of the reason that the year has been so great is you guys of course! So as a way to round out the year 2015, we wanted to share our three most popular posts with you guys.

See you in the new year (for some fun new changes!!)

1. Jungle Links to Get You Swinging
   
2. We’ve Got No Strings on Us (Pinocchio Storytelling)
    
3. Kids Nook Reads: The Lamb Who Came for Dinner
   

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoy our last days of 2015!!!

Re-Post: Happy Holidays from Kids Nook

Note: This is a repost of our super fun Christmas party activities from last year. They included lots of food, awesome pajamas, and toilet paper games 🙂 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Kids Nook! To celebrate the occassion we hosted a very special pajama holiday party, featuring the classic story The Polar Express! 

Of course we ate too much food…

And played in the snow…

Made our own special Christmas pillow buddies…

And of course, drank hot chocolate!

Have a great year!

Kids Nook Reads: Harold Finds a Voice

Do you love making funny noises? Do you spend your time listening to different accents just because you love to? Well you may not, but I sure do! That’s probably why I loved reading about the adventures of Harold, a mischevious parrot in a big city!

Harold Finds a Voice
by Courtney Dicmas