How does a child learn to read? Have you ever seen a child who was learning to read who would accurately sound out each letter, but when it came time to say the whole word, would say a completely different word? S-A-T = SACK What happened? One of the main things I’ve been doing is […]
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, We all know YouTube of old—grainy 720p videos with subdued lighting of unrehearsed, unscripted shenanigans. It was America’s Home Videos brought to your very hand via your smartphone. I really didn’t drown myself in YouTube back then, but around the mid-2010’s, I started realizing that a lot of YouTubers were posting really informative stuff,
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Hello, it’s been quite a while since I have done anything with Bookish Bovine. Life sometimes gets in the way. However, I am here now. I am back. And I am still dedicated now, more than ever, to finding a way to get reading and writing back into the folds of our youth’s minds and
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Wow. I went to the Deep Vellum’s inaugural Music & Literature Festival (https://www.deepvellum.org/festival) on Saturday, July 11, 2026, at the behest of my daughter who has been following the main act, Mr. Hanif Abdurraqib, for a while now. She has a few of his books and has met him, chatted briefly about basketball, and here
Best buddies and good times ahead , Frog and Toad are Friends By Arnold Lobel Frog and Toad are Friends is a book containing short stories of two friends, Frog and Toad. It’s an I Can Read! Book, level 2, meaning it has engaging stories, longer sentences, and language play for developing readers. Charming kids
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You are what you eat , Little Green Donkey Written and illustrated by Anuska Allepuz Little Green Donkey is a picture book about a little donkey that likes to eat grass. It ate so much grass it…you guessed it, became green. First off, Anuska Allepuz is both the author and illustrator of Little Green Donkey.
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, I went down a rabbit hole the other day when I googled “Is reading to your child overrated?”. As a self-certified, card-carrying lone member of the Church of the Bibliophilic, I almost keeled over at the sheer amount of results that came up. Apparently, there are a good amount of people who believe reading
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The crayons are at it again! , The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers When I was younger, I was told books should be written like a literary roller coaster: first act starts at the bottom, second act rises to the top, crashes down in the third act, and
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More than meets the eye about some pig , Charlotte’s Webby E.B. White, illustrated by Garth Williams In 1952, E.B. White put out one of the most beloved children’s books of all time. Charlotte’s Web, a book about an innocent and wide-eyed pig named Wilbur, and a spider, the eponymous Charlotte, and her mission to
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Crayons unite! , The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers Released in June of 2013, The Day the Crayons Quit, Drew Daywalt’s first book became an instant hit with parents and kids alike. It even got on the New York Times’ Best Seller’s List that same month. Maybe it was
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