Reach & Read: Cleared for Takeoff!

October 9, 2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

Cleared for Takeoff: The Ultimate Book of Flight by Rowland White Yankee – Echo – Sierra! I recommend this book. Note that I am not an aviation expert, aficionado, hobbyist but I have flown in a few different kinds of planes, use aviation examples/learnings in my professional work with healthcare quality and safety, and appreciate a well written […]

PEPper Prepper Party : Like a cookie exchange but with waterproof matches.

October 7, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

I do love a theme! The disaster preparedness party idea started this summer when one of parents in our PEPs group shared an article on being ready for 9.0 earthquake in our near future (remember time is relative). In my last professional position, disaster preparedness was one of my bailiwicks, and I must have just […]

Reach & Read: 1492 and 40 Fun Fables

October 3, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

Forty Fun Fables: Tales that Trick, Tickle and Teach by Mitch Weiss and Martha Hamilton This is an easy to read book of re-told fables, although not ‘fun’ like I hoped given tickle in the title. Content is directed at younger readers, there are some illustrations and each tale provides the ‘moral of the story’ (pfew!) and […]

Reach & Read:Ticktock Banneker’s Clock

September 29, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

A biography of a pretty amazing man, Benjamin Banneker. Never heard of him? Me neither until I read this book with my son. Ticktock Banneker’s Clock is a illustrated children’s book telling the story of Benjamin Banneker, who all things consider, is an unlikely, but very welcome, character to be showcased for science and innovation. Benjamin, […]

Reach & Read: Inside Your Insides

September 7, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

Inside Your Insides: A Guide to the Microbes That Call You Home by Claire Eamer Itchy scratchy creepy crawly feelings are guaranteed! Interesting book about microbes that manages to make reading about a micro biome interesting. There are LOL kid jokes throughout, think knock knock and “what do you call a photo that a microbe takes itself? A […]

Reach & Read: A Squiggly Story

September 6, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

A Squiggly Story by Andrew Larsen Love this book! It is a great, inspiring (as much as little kid books can) story and actually gives me ideas of how I can encourage my son with writing, creative thinking and play in the future, when he writes with implements, not just eat them or scribble on the […]