Oh the lovely toddler years. I’m going to be straightforward: I sometimes find it a little hard to soak up all the good moments between the mood swings, tantrums, fights for independence. Here’s what I know to be true. My attitude is what counts – it’s the one thing I can control. I can choose…
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The Micro Library: A Small, Focused Collection from your Intentional Bookshelf
Simplicity, minimalism and focus are things I’ve become increasingly interested in on both a personal level and as ideals to bring into my motherhood. The entire concept of an “intentional bookshelf” truly stems from this belief that there is value in curating the books we read over and over with our children to reflect parts…
Giraffes Can’t Dance | A Children’s Book About Self Love & The Power of Music
Today I am back with a classic Addison Reads thorough, in-depth & insightful book review for you all. (Back in the day, this used to be all I did here on the blog, in fact, you can search through the archives of all the book reviews I have written!). The point in doing this is to…
Cultural Awareness & Empathy: Teaching Global Love To Your Children Through Books
In a world that often challenges the ideas of global love and cultural awareness, it is more important than ever to encourage our children to love all people. This Valentine’s Day and throughout the entire year, I encourage you to lead by example and through your books & activities, to show your children that we…
Encouraging Your Friends & Family To Gift You the BEST Children’s Books
If you are hooked on the idea of building an intentional bookshelf for your family, you know how important it is to protect this bookshelf at all cost and fill it with only the best children’s books. Guarding our home library is an important job we parents have, just as important as protecting our children from other influences…
Where is Baby’s Pumpkin? by Karen Katz | Parenting with Literature During Halloween
If you have been around the Addison Reads blog for a while and you’ve drank the kool-aid of building an intentional bookshelf and parenting with literature you will know that I am all about using children’s books to foster a connection with your child and teach them in a unique, understandable way. In this post…
Five Clues that you’ve Found a GREAT Children’s Book for your Intentional Bookshelf
Listen & Learn Often times the bad things in our lives are easier to point out than the good. Flaws, imperfections, things we’d fix. I think the same goes for our bookshelves. It’s not too terribly hard to point out bad books especially once you know what to look for – you can read this whole…
Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See?
This review of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? is courtesy of Pam Hodges, thanks girl! Learn more about Pam Hodges below. The Facts TITLE: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? WRITTEN BY: Eric Carle ILLUSTRATED BY: Bill Martin Jr PAGES: 26 ISBN: 0805047905 Available on Amazon, here. Initial Thoughts When I…
What To Do With a “Bad” Children’s Book
The unthinkable has happened. Despite your best efforts at curating an intentional bookshelf for your family, a bad children’s book has infiltrated your home library. It may have come from a well-meaning relative giving your child a birthday gift. You may not have read the entirety of the book beforehand and there’s a page or…
