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by Lorna McGrath | Book Reviews, MFA
I Wish You More Written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld For the most part, we wish more good, kind, and together things for our children than the opposite. The illustrations are wonderful as they capture in very concrete ways the ideas in the text. It...
by Montessori Family Alliance Team | Book Reviews, Family Resources, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Parenting on the Same Page, Video, Webinars / MFA
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by Cheryl Allen | Book Reviews, MFA
Written by Rebecca Roland Conversations can help provide learning opportunities, including developing essential listening skills and increasing vocabulary. Often, what we think of as a conversation with the children around us is more a session of us, as the adult,...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Reviews, MFA
Written by Elizabeth Baguley Illustrated by Aurélie Blanz This is a charming book with gorgeous illustrations and interesting descriptive and rhyming verses. The story is about how sometimes groups teach their children to guard themselves against other groups without...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Reviews, Book Reviews TC February 2023, MFA, TC February 2023
Note: A while ago, I was wondering: Why aren’t there books for children about Maria Montessori’s life and work? So, I began to do some research. It turns out that there are quite a variety of books from which to choose. There are paperbacks, hard covers, cartoon-ish,...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Reviews, Book Reviews TC February 2023, MFA, TC February 2023
Soup Day Written by Melissa Iwai Melissa Iwai is fast becoming one of my favorite authors! She writes and illustrates engaging books about preparing food with the family. Some of the many attributes of her books are: • they have sturdy, hard-to-ruin pages, which is...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Reviews, Book Reviews TC February 2023, MFA, TC February 2023
Written by Brook Pessin-Whedbee Illustrated by Naomi Bradoff The author has included suggestions about how to use this book. She also includes resources and activities to help parents and caregivers define gender and to learn more about the topic. Brook suggests that...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Reviews, MFA, TC February 2023
Written by Karen S. Robbins Illustrated by Rachael Brunson Well, I read this book several times, and I think this could be an introduction to reading together (an adult and a child) The aardvark shows confidence in its abilities and potential, and the mouse is...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Reviews
Written by Hilary Kearney Illustrated by Amy Holliday I had the pleasure not long ago of visiting a botanical garden known for its orchids and generously filled with many other kinds of flowering plants, etc. Whenever I go to places like that, I always visit their...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Reviews
The Honeybee Written by Kristen Hall and Isabelle Arsenault This is a beautifully illustrated and written book about the life cycle of the honeybee. It is quite colorful, and the illustrations are soft and fairly realistic. The author and illustrator take you from...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Reviews, MFA, Tomorrow's Child
Elementary and middle school children, along with their parents and teachers, will love this book. It is a hilarious review of wild animals from around the world! Each animal is rated in a humorous way that tells the reader a little something about the creature....
by Lorna McGrath | Book Reviews, MFA, TC February 2023
It is rare that I have ever found a Montessori book that was effectively written for both Montessori professionals and parents. Paula Preschlack has done it brilliantly! She starts with a section that appeals to both groups and is meant to inform them without...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Reviews, MFA
Hatching the Cosmic Egg Written by Michael Dorer, Illustrated by Beth Wilson, and Music by Andrew Kutt Michael Dorer, a well-known Montessori educator, author, and conference presenter, has now written his first children’s book and it’s ‘wonder-full.’ Hatching the...
by Montessori Family Alliance Team | Book Reviews, Family Resources, MFA, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Grandparenting, Montessori Parenting, Reading, Video, Webinars / MFA
Our team will share books for children and parents that we love. They are good reads anytime but especially at this gift-giving time of year!SHOW LESS...
by Cheryl Allen | Book Reviews, Free Reads, MFA
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by Lorna McGrath | Book Reviews, Free Reads, MFA
Redirecting Children’s Behavior: Effective Discipline for Creating Connection and Cooperation Written by Kathryn J. Kvols In early 1990, when our children were three and six years old, I met Kathryn Kvols. I was an experienced and skilled primary teacher in a...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Review TC November 2022, MFA, TC November 2022
Just Like Brothers Written by Elizabeth Baguley Illustrated by Aurélie Blanz This is a charming book with gorgeous illustrations and interesting descriptive and rhyming verses. The story is about how sometimes groups teach their children to guard themselves against...
by Lorna McGrath | Book Reviews, TC September 2022
Reviewed by Lorna McGrath Here and There Written by Tamara Ellis Smith Illustrated by Evelyn Daviddi Ivan’s parents split up and are living in separate houses. Ivan didn’t like that he had to go here and there. He didn’t think he could be happy and himself with his...