I met Jody a few years ago while in Dublin. Her love of Ireland is evident in her website Ireland Family Vacations, but even more so when I talked to her in person. So who better to share a list of Ireland family favorite books than the expert herself? If this list has you ready to book your family travels to…
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I even read picture dictionaries to my kids. Not English ones anymore, but foreign languages. Typically I stick with German because they know German and I studied it. So, I know how to pronounce it. However, there’s one exception. Tokyo Friends. It doesn’t advertise itself as solely a picture dictionary, and that’s because it’s not. Really. It’s a story about Japanese…
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Over the weekend I passed the 1,000 mark. There are currently over 1,000 books listed on this site. Yay! Updated 2/2017: We’re now at 1,300+! And there’s also at least 300+ sitting in the draft section, many sitting in my email account, and even more that haven’t been discovered yet. Unless you’re an avid collector, I’m going to guess that…
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As I’m writing this, in February of 2016, Malala Yousafzai is not even twenty years old. She turns twenty next summer. In her short, not even twenty, years she’s seen her hometown taken over by the Taliban and watched as they banned girls from getting an education. In a Taliban-controlled area of Pakistan, a place where people lived in fear,…
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As I’ve mentioned several times, I can not do a month focused on Japan without giving special attention to Okinawa. And it’s very important that I look at Children’s books set in Okinawa. Let’s take a look at this specific part of Japan for kids. My dad was military and I lived there for three years in elementary school. For…
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