Years ago children used their imaginations to make a town called “Roxaboxin” – made up of stones, old wooden boxes, and deserted glass on a sandy, rocky hill in their neighbourhood. When these children grew up, one of their children, Alice McLerran, wrote a delightful children’s book about it that is bound to inspire children […]
In the last few months, on two occasions, I have been called “a privileged white woman” by two strangers who knew nothing about me. One was by someone online; the other was in a face-to-face encounter, where the name caller was also a white woman (granted, she called me “a privileged old white woman,” while
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Light and Darkness (For Yom Hashoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day) Light and Darkness Good and Evil Today, Yom HaShoah, We remember. We remember the millions who died in the Holocaust— Victims of incredible darkness, incredible evil. But the evil was not victorious. I am here. My husband is here. Our children are here. Our people
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Faces of Tomorrow is a boardbook for babies and toddlers written by Mary Gordon; the photographs are by her daughter, Melanie Gordon. (I always love a mother-daughter team!) There are words in five languages on the left-hand pages – those are for the parents. On the right-hand pages are phototgraphs of babies’ faces. Those are for
A really good time to buy curriculum is at homeschool conferences, which are typically held in the spring. If you buy curriculum at conferences, you save money by not paying shipping. Also, you can hold the item in your hands and look through it thoroughly, rather than just reading a blurb about it in a
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This picture book with the long name (“Christina Was a Little Girl With no Puppy” is a picture book hot off the press written by my son Jonathan, for his niece (my granddaughter) Christina. It’s the simple and true story of a little girl wanting a puppy, whose current circumstances don’t allow her to have
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“Who are your influencers?” was a question that someone asked a few of us as we were spending time together one evening. She expanded, “What podcasts are you listening to; what shows are you watching?” In our current society, many young people want to grow up to be “influencers,” that is people with a podcast
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Most of us have read the stories of the loveable “Winnie-the-Pooh” – “Finding Winnie” is the true story of this most famous bear, told by the great-granddaughter of the man who saw a bear cub at the train station and bought him off a trapper. This man, Harry Colebourn, was a veterinarian in Winnipeg and
“The Winged Watchman” is a wonderful book by the very talented chilren’s auther, Hilda Van Stockum. It is the story of a Dutch boy and his family during the last year of the Nazi occupation. It has the perfect amount of tension, humour, hardship and adventure that makes a great children’s novel. (It’s a very
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“The Ordinary Princess” is an absolutely delightfully written tale of a princess who started out as the perfect golden-haired beauty just like her six sisters who preceded her, but then was given the gift of being “ordinary.” Her extraordinary beauty disappeared, and really, she had a pretty good time of it. She did end up
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