Reading, Writing & Pondering

  Where I live the children will head back to school in two or three weeks. Summer has gone by quickly! If Jesus Came to My School by April Graney is a great book to read with your children ages 3 to 8 before they head back to school. If Jesus Came to My School has great rhyme/rhythm in the words. I like how well it flows. The pictures are bright and cheerful and work well with the text. I especially like how this book encourages kids to treat everyone with compassion and kindness. The whole book encourages children to imagine a day with Jesus coming to school with them. This children's book encourages children to let Jesus' love shine through them. I especially like that it encourages children to help those who are struggling or who are different.  If Jesus Came to My School measures roughly 8 1/2 inches squared and is forty pages long. The pages are fairly heavy and glossy and easy for young ones to read and turn themselves as well as reading together a a family. ...

  Like a lot of children, Bo is too excited to sleep before the first day of school in this fun children's book, The Night Baafore the First Day of Schoo l by Dawn Young. Since Bo can't sleep, he decides to count sheep. . .only things start to get wackier and wackier as Bo keeps counting. Those sheep get in to Bo's school supplies. They get in to his snacks. They get into his clothes. All together in makes for a good clean, fun story. It also makes for some fun counting for young children. The Night Baafore the First day of School is 32 pages long and a large-size book at over ten inches square in size. The illustrations have a lot of detail and capture the zany story details quite well. This is a book that should entertain children ages 8 and under real well. If you are looking for a fun read before the first day of school, check out The Night Baafore the First Day of School .  I received a copy of this book from the publisher. All opinions within this review are my own.