Oh, Friends. I am beyond thrilled to finally show you the brand new look here at Mama’s!
For many months, my wonderful designer and I have been feverishly working to make Mama’s Learning Corner a better site. And I’m excited to show y’all around!
My number 1 goal was to make it easier to find what you’re looking for, whether it’s worksheets and printables, help for you as a homeschool mom, or books for you and your children to read.
So let’s take a look around!
For those of you who are new to Mama’s, make sure you click on the Start Here button in the navigation bar.
Because I know many of you come to Mama’s for book suggestions, you can also now easily find those in the Books & More Books! section.
Or you can search all that Mama’s has to offer by grade or by subject, just by clicking in the navigation bar.
I’ve also updated the About page where you can read my ’20 Things’ and get to know me a bit better. Just click on the box!
If you like to read a site blog style, where the latest posts are listed first, just click on Blog in the navigation bar. Or you can scroll down and find pictures of my latest posts.
Just click and read!
One of my favorite new sections is Mama’s Favorite Things! I’m frequently asked about my favorite printer, or what my favorite homeschool supplies are. Several of you have asked what type of Bible I use.
I listed all of that and more, so go take a peek! And then tell me what your favorite things are because I love to know that kind of thing. 🙂
Lastly, if you’re looking to purchase anything in Mama’s Shop, just click on Shop in the navigation bar, or you can access it from the home page.
So simple!
Because I am so tickled about this new look, I wanted to celebrate with a giveaway!
Since I write about our favorite books so often here at Mama’s Learning Corner, it only seemed natural to give away some of our favorite books.
So get ready because there will be multiple winners!
Because Usborne books are some of our tried-and-true favorites, I’m giving away a selection of the best!
To enter, simply leave a comment on this post and tell me one of your favorite books that you’ve read with your own children.
Fiction, non-fiction, chapter book, picture book – anything goes!
One winner will be selected for each book prize, using random.org.
You may only enter once. Any duplicate entries will be deleted. Only US residents in the 48 contiguous states are allowed to enter. You’ll have 48 hours to email me with your mailing address before I choose a new winner.
Note that I moderate comments to prevent spam, so there may be a slight delay in your comment appearing.
I will close the entries on Friday, March 11, 2016, at midnight EST, so make sure you enter before then! Winners will be notified via email by Monday, March 14, 2016.
Now on to the books!
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Usborne Encyclopedia of the Ancient World
Book Giveaway #1 is an all-time favorite of my son’s:
→ Usborne Encyclopedia of the Ancient World
Usborne Sticker Books
Book Giveaway #2 is a set of 3 sticker books that your kiddos will love!
→ Build a Picture Town Sticker Book
→ 1001 Things to Spot on Vacation Sticker Book
Usborne I Can Draw Set and Busy Pad
Book Giveaway #3 are 2 of my 1st graders favorite drawing books and a super fun Busy Puzzle Pad!
The Busy Puzzle Pad is perfect to keep in the car for unanticipated waits at the doctor’s office, restaurants, etc.
Usborne Beginner Non-Fiction Books
Book Giveaway #4 is a 3-book set of beginner non-fiction books. My 3 girls adore this series!
→ Ants
Usborne Look Inside Books
Book Giveaway #5 is a 2-book set of our favorite lift-the-flap Look Inside books!
Remember that you must leave a comment on this post telling me one of your favorite books to read with your children!
Enjoy browsing through the new and improved Mama’s Learning Corner!
How I Use Handwriting Without Tears in Our Homeschool – with a video!
We recently finished The Spiderwick Chronicles (read out loud) and all three of my kids loved the series!
The new look is amazing! Very smart, and easy to navigate, well done 🙂
We have so many favourite books, but my 5yo has just read her first book on her own ‘The Cat Sat on the Mat’… so I think that is always going to have a special place in my heart!
My son and I really enjoyed reading Toys Go Out.
Thanks for all you do on this site!
Mine are little but we just read New Feet for Old and they love deciding what type of feet they would buy.
My favorite is Because of Winn Dixie and Mercy Watson. My kids love these books because they are very playful.
My favorite book to read to my children is anything Thomas the train or Daniel Tiger for non-educational and my daughter’s Usborne science encyclopedia. She really loves the links in the encyclopedia and both of them (2 &4 years old) love Thomas the train and Daniel TigerWe read a lot of books but these are my favorites
Love your stuff! My two year old loves “There’s a Mouse about the House” from Usborne books. Has a cute mouse that goes thru the pages in a hole. Super cute.
My Kinder kids love “Junie B.Jones” books, we have great behavior discussions!
Our favorites are always the current read aloud…which for us right now is Johnny Tremain! Thanks for this opportunity. The site looks great! Love the colors.
The Pippi Longstocking series entertained me and my children!
We love reading Mo Willem’s Pigeon series.
We are currently reading everything Lego superheroes and Lego ninjago- I miss the old days of My Truck is Stuck!
Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson
My kids enjoyed the series as a family read-aloud.
We’re in the middle of Winnie the Pooh right now, and it’s the first chapter book I’ve been able to share with both my boys (ages 4 and 7).
I just finished “Winnie the Pooh” and”The House at Pooh Corner” with my 3 and 6 year old and we enjoyed them so much! (warning, “House at Pooh Corner” does have a kind of sad ending)
My kid’s favorite was Spunky’s Diary.
We love reading aloud the books by LM Montgomery in the Anne series. Of course, “Do You See A Mouse” by Bernard Waber will always be a favorite of all of us for picture books…. 🙂
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is probably my favorite kids book (but I love so many it’s hard to choose!).
My favorite books growing up was any of the little Golden Books that my dad would read to me and my brother before bedtime.
I always loved Richard Scarry’s books growing up and my kids love them too!
I love Richard Scarry books because there are so many pictures and words that every time you read them they can be a different story. 🙂
My little ones love the “that’s not my” series. We lobe doing where’s waldo as a family. And our fav night time books are Nightmare in the Attic or monsters in my closet Mercer Mayer.
Beautiful site! We are currently reading through the Chronicles of Narnia and loving it!
We love Karen Kingsbury’s collection for Children!
We just finished reading (for the 3rd) time “The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe” as my 11yo grandson can’t seem to get enough of it. He has learning disabilities and repetition is very important in order for him to “grasp” something. We love using resources from your site!
I count on your site to give my homeschooling a blast of creative fresh air. Thank you for sharing with all of us. My 1st and 2nd grader just finished Carlotte’s Web taking turns reading. It was so fun to share this classic with them. We had a lot of great discussions about animals, spiders, the fair, etc.
We have so many favorites! A couple are Brothers at Bat and Dan the Taxi Man!
We like reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
We have loved all our readers in the Sonlight we are using this year. We just finished ‘A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt’ and my kids loved it!
My daughter really enjoys reading (and trying to count) “Ten Little Ladybugs”
There are so many things we love to read together as a family it’s almost impossible to choose! Lately though we’ve been reading the Otis the tractor books. My children love the illustrations.
My kids and I read the first 5 books of the Kingdom Keepers series before a trip to Disney world at Christmas. I think it is my new favorite series.
My son and I really enjoy “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” He loves pretending that he’s eating all the food with the caterpillar.
Your new ‘look’ and set up is great! Our most exciting read aloud was The Viking Quest series! I even lost my voice through some of them because the kids didn’t want me to stop reading! I have to say I enjoyed them as much as they did!!
One of our favorites is Miss Maple’s Seeds by Eliza Wheeler. It is beautifully illustrated, simple enough for a 2 year old, but deep enough to discuss with older children. I love it! Oh yeah, and my kids do too 🙂
Our favorite book to read aloud is Take Care Good Night. We also love listening to The Little House on The Prairie series when we are in the car.
Oh my girl’s favorite book we’ve read together is Charlotte’s Web. My boys love, love, LOVE The Pokey Little Puppy.
Hi Lauren,
I love the new look!! I think the book I’ve always held most dear is “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch. I’ve read this book with my own 7 kids and now I’m reading it with my grandchildren. After all these years, I still can’t get through it without tears.
I am so excited about your new website. It looks amazing!! I love your posts. You have helped me so much as I have started my homeschool journey with my boys. My favorite book that I have read with my boys is The Borrowers by Mary Norton. Odd I know; however, it’s the first book I read with them together after I began homeschooling in January. I started reading it to my younger son as part of his lessons and my older son was so intrigued, he wanted to join in. Thanks again, and I cannot wait to see what else you have in store for us!!
My kids love Raggedy Ann and Andy books! And they have such great moral lessons in them!
I just finished “Winnie the Pooh” and”The House at Pooh Corner” with my 3 and 6 year old and we enjoyed them so much! I dissolved into a pile of tears during the last two pages…I never finished them as a child.
The new layout and design is beautiful! Your site is one of the first I recommend when people ask about helpful sites for starting homeschooling! And your YouTube videos are so informative and I enjoy the different platform and when you’ve had other ladies share too.
Thank you for sharing this us!
The current favorite book is Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: The New Baby! Although the “new” baby will be 6 months old at the end of the month, it is still a BIG deal to her, my 3-soon-to-be-4 year old.
We love Bear Says Thanks and the Llama Llama series!
My kiddos and I thoroughly enjoy The Chronicle of Narnia series.
Thanks for asking to list favorite books in the comments; I’m getting some great ideas from other moms! 🙂
“Good Night, Gorilla” holds a special place in our hearts.
Our favorites are “King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub by the Woods and You are Special by Max Lucado, but we also adore all of Mo Willems Elephant and Piggie series… So hard to just choose one!
We love the Little House books!
We have so many read alouds that we’ve enjoyed this past year together. Currently, reading The Boxcar Children and loving it.
We are really enjoying reading through the Little House on the Prairie series right now. But one of my all-time favorites is The Journeyman by Elizabeth Yates. It is such a great story of true love.
My 6 and 3 year old are enjoying The Magic Tree House series right now. We’ve read a few in the past, but are now starting them in order. We are currently on book 10. I have mainly been reading to them, with my 6 year old reading a page or two every now and then. But she just decided that she wants to read book 10 all by herself.
They also love listening to The Magic Tree House audio books while they fall asleep.
We love the little house series and are doing them with the prairie primer.
We love pictures books and trips to our library. We can’t choose one book but one of our favorite authors is Patricia Polacco- she speaks to the heart of readers and addresses living with a learning disability beautifully and positively.
Arnie the doughnut chapter book series…they are pretty funny!
My girls love The Wizard of Oz. We have a beautiful illustrated edition and I remember the first time I read it to them, we finished it in two sittings because they just wanted me to keep reading!
Our most favorite read-aloud to date is The Green Ember by S.D. Smith. Every day the kids would ask to read just one more chapter, then one more, then one more, etc. It even had me on the edge of my seat not wanting to stop. It’s a wonderful book that all ages enjoy!
I read “The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be” by Farley Mowat to my son and he loved it! We also liked “The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs”. Any book is a good book!
We read so many different books, it is hard to pick a favorite. The Magic Tree House books are always enjoyed. Our last read aloud book, Mr. Popper’s Penguins was a huge hit.
My four-year-old daughter loves the paperback first “Little House on the Prairie” set!
My 3 kiddos are 3 and under, so I’ll stick with picture books. We love anything by Eric Carle…Grouchy Lady Bug tops the charts right now. My eldest also loves anything by Bill Peet. What a gift for story telling that man has!
I loved Stories of Peter Cottontail when I was young. And love to read it to my littles now!
The Little House series. And we recently discovered them on audio! Thanks
Love the new website!!! I’ve already bookmarked it! My 5 year old daughter and I are reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book “Little House in the Big Woods”. We enjoy talking about what it would be like to live in those times. Great Mommy/Daughter time!
My son is really crazy about all things space right now so we’re enjoying The Solar System by Nancy Dickmann. It’s amazing how much information I didn’t know about space so we’re learning together!
Who doesn’t love Usborne books? : ) I love your videos that you post about different homeschool topics; by the way. They are very encouraging. I love seeing how other moms/teachers do it!
My daughter’s favorite book that we are reading right now is “Little House In The Big Woods”. She loves the way people used to live long ago. She is all about the way they dressed; what they ate; their hairstyles etc. She’s 6!
I love all of the classic fairy tales and older stories found in little Golden Books because they teach morals and manners that I feel have been forgotten in today’s age. They also teach vocabulary that is not common. My Favorites are , “The Ugly Duckling, The Little Red Hen, The Hungry Puppy and The Boy Who Cried Wolf!”
Our favorites are Berenstain Bears 🙂 I loved them as a child and so does my son.
We LOVE ‘Too Many Pumpkins’ by Linda White. Even though it’s a seasonal book, we just can’t help reading it over and over!
The site looks great! Thank you for all your work!
A favorite book of mine that I have read to my 7 year old since she was born and now read to my 2 month old is Love You Forever. My daughter loves this book. She helps me read it to her brother now too.
So many books!! We love to read around here. I’ve loved reading the Magic Treehouse series with my almost 6 yr old. (now he reads it on his own!) Also Charlotte’s Web and my old old copy of Raggedy Ann stories.
I have to share 2 favorites from this Momma of 4 boys… Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder. We were so surprised by how much responsibility 9-year-old had back in the 1800’s. And the second book is Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop. This book is also based on a true events. It takes place during WWII and tells the story about a small school house in France that hides ten Jewish children. We had many good discussions from both of these books. Both books are easy read-alouds and kept my boys anticipating the next chapter.
My boys love Fly Guy and Pete the Cat. Great new look on the site! Easy to navigate and find all of your great information!
We love books by Mo Willems!
I love the Llama Llama books. They are so cute and easy to relate to
Chronicles of Narnia- all 7 of them– those are the current favorites in our house!
Hi, love the new look!
We (myself and my twin boys) are currently loving Laugh-Along Lessons 5 Minute Stories By: Helen Lester. Great stories about the importance of listening, cooperation, responsibility and more! There is an internet link to find activities to go along with each story!
So many! How to choose? My toddler loves Goodnight Moon, my older kids and I really enjoy the Little House on the Prairie series.
We loved reading through the Clementine series. I was really thrilled that my son would sneak into the girls’ room to listen in and enjoy.
We love the Five Little Peppers and How they Grew!
Love the new site.
Appreciate all you do and share!
The only book I’ve had a chance to read to my sister is our Bible. I say sister, as both our parents died, leaving me as her caregiver, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything! Especially since my husband and I cannot have children. God knows best! 🙂 My sister has mild retardation, and she has the mentality of a 5-y-o.
BTW, I really like the new site, Lauren!
Be safe and blessed!
His,
joy
I truly enjoy reading the Little House on the Prairie series to my children.
Make Time For McCloskey
The love so many. the Secret Garden. any of the one like Give a Mouse a Cookie . Granddaughters 6,3, and 2 under a year!!
We have been enjoying The Watermelon Seed the past few days. The kids can now recite most of it with me, especially when the crocodile says, “CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP!”
Our favorite books are by Bill Peet.
My Favorite books to read to my 3 yr. old is the Flicka, Ricka, Dicka, Snipp, Snapp, Snurr set. I love the old time stories! And for the older ones, The Jungle Doctor Series!!
My all time favorite children’s book (a tear jerker) is “Thank You Mr. Faulker” by Patricia Palloco
We love to read Sophie’s Squash! and I LOVE your website! I am a working mom, who likes to live vicariously through all the stay at home moms/educators! So incredibly thankful for all of your resources!!
We recently read “Mr. Popper’s Penguins” together and we all loved it! It had nice, simple language and was such an interesting story that captivated my children.
I love to read True or False Planets with my 5 1/2 year old son. He has developed an interest in space and planets and this book is full of interesting facts (many of which I didn’t even know!) It is an incredibly fun and intersting book. We take the book to relatives houses and
I love watching his excitement as I help him ask the T or F questions to his family and we see if they know the answers! Its a lot of fun and I love that he loves to learn!
Love the new look of your site:
Favorite books around our house:
The Poky Little Puppy
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
The Day the Crayons Quit
One favorite!?!? My 5 year old daughter (who I just asked) looked at me confused and said “A favorite for what?” She says she has a lot of favorite books. Magic School Bus… Mr. Putter books… She just finished reading an entire Molly Molly Mandy chapter book.
My daughter’s favorite series right now is “The Kingdom of Wrenly Series” but I love that she has also been interested in reading more about people and has been picking up some biographies.
My son is not that into reading but if I pull out his favorite “Star Wars” book I can always get him to sit a spell and read.
We love the Magic Treehouse series, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, and Madeline. Great website!
My kids and I love the book Mud uddle! We read that book over and over and over again…. Also the book Mortimer…I think they like that because they can yell! :o)
We love, love, LOVE Charlotte’s Web here at out house.
We love to read “The Three Ninja Pigs.” It’s so cute!!
I just finished reading The Lightning Thief to my kids and they absolutely loved Percy Jackson.
My favorite to read with my 5-year old is ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’ by Shel Silverstein and my 2-year old loves The Trucktown Series by John Scizeka.
We love The Gruffalo, Pinkalicious, Bedtime for Francis… There are so many favorites!!!
Miss Suzy is always a favorite! And we are just finishing the Little House series.
I’m a Sped teacher and Kindergarten Co-teacher. In my Kindergarten class we just read Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham. The kids LOVED it! Many could almost recite it from memory. They really enjoyed discussing that Sam was not very happy in the beginning because of the Green Eggs and Ham but eventually gave in and loved it. Then the students took turns telling everyone in the class something that they “thought” they wouldn’t like because the way something looked …. but when they did try it … They Loved it!!!
P.S. Love the new look!
Thanks,
Melissa S.
“Ask Mr. Bear” was always our favorite. My oldest is now 7 and she will still say it’s one of her favorites. She always gave me a big bear hug at the end of the read aloud time!!
We are enjoying Anne of Green Gables
My 5 year old girls love Chew, Chew, Gulp by Lauren Thompson. They can recognize a lot of sight words and love reading the book aloud to us. They also love the Knuffle Bunny series by Mo Willems.
My favorite book is Anne of Green Gables. I read it as a read aloud to my daughters, ages 7 and 6. We’re working through the series. Read a book, and then watch the movie. But that first book, Anne of Green Gables is my absolute favorite! And I’m so glad I got to experience it anew with fresh perspectives from each of my lovely daughters!
My 8 yr old and 6 yr old boys love the boxcar children series as read alouds.
Love the new look! Reading Robin Hood out loud and my son crying “more please!!” Is a moment I’ll never forget.
My oldest is only 6 so we just started reading the boxcar children, but she and my 4 yr old love them! They talk about the story content constantly! I love it! We really appreciate your site!
I love the new website. My son is all about Eric Carle. My daughter will read pretty much anything. Recently she read The Hundred Dresses and loved.
When my children were younger I loved to read I Love You As Much… by Laura Krauss Melmed . We recently enjoyed reading Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle.
Robert loves it when I read Chicka chicka boom boom. He likes it when we act out the part where h and i are tangled together and we have to pull apart.
He also likes the series about the animals and what they see and hear. Brown Bear Brown Bear is his favorite one.
With my older children Goodnight Moon was an every night favorite, then they grew into the Cronicles of Narnia.
I like the layout of the new site. ?
I love The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin & David Shannon – beautiful retell of the Cinderella story (Algonquin Indian). The illustrations are gorgeous. My new kids fall in love with it each year.
Make Way for Ducklings is a sweet favorite right now!
My daughter’s favorites are Where the Wild Things Are and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Looks so great! Way to go!
Our favorite book these days is 10 apples up on top for my babies and my older 2 are enjoying mouse and the motorcycle. Classic!
Thanks for this giveaway opportunity!! Would be so fun to win!
I’ve read Bunnicula and Amelia Bedilia with my girls as well as many of the American girl series. As they got older we read so many I can’t even begin to recount them here. I read to them through 12 grade with them reading back to me at times. It’s been fun
We have several different family “favorites” that we try to re-read each year. Ms. Hickory is a favorite as is Mr. Popper’s Penguins and any Robert Lawson book. For an interesting “historical fiction” book we enjoy the Jenny Cote books such as The Ark, The Reed, and The Fire Cloud.
My son and I are loving Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events. We’re up to the eighth book right now. We, along with my daughter, also loved The Chronicles of Narnia and The Mysterious Benedict Society series.
We have enjoyed Robert Lawson’ s Rabbit Hill and the Tough Winter.
One of my boys’ favorite quotes is: “Georgie, Georgie, I’m going to tell you something you’ll never hear. Georgie, I’m going to take me a bath. ”
My bath resistant boys think this quote hilarious. They enjoyed both books. The vocabulary was a bit above grade level and sparked discussion.
We color copy the front of each book we read. On that paper vocabulary and quotes are noted.
We post the sheets around the homeschool room to remind us of what we’ve read.
We really enjoyed reading the Little House on the Prairie Series with our kids! And I love Usborne books–what a great giveaway!
The Big Red Barn is my favorite for my preschooler and The Boxcar Children is the favorite of my elementary aged kids. Thankfully, I love them both!
We all LOVED The Boxcar Children.
wow that is hard. Favorite…….. well it is usually the last book we read So Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Goodness, I can only pick one? 😉 I think as of now, my favorite book is The Wind in the Willows. The kids and I enjoyed the shenanigans everyone got into.
I love the new look – thanks!
A favorite book series of ours is the Harry Potter Series… Both my older kids loved them.. With my youngest (2.5 years old) the book we read over and over and over is The Big Storm: a book about fears (from the Baby’s First Disney Book Collection.
We love books that also have a movie so we can compare the two. We have enjoyed reading and watching Charlotte’s Web, The Secret Garden, and Treasure Island.
Trumpet of the Swans
Our favorite at the moment is If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. He loves the little mouse.
Oh my! It is so hard to pick a favorite for our family.
We just finished reading “Grandma’s Attic” and we will soon be starting the Betsy- Tracy series.
We loved Grandma’s attic and even acted some of it out. We do that a lot with books. Really helps get you into the story and my daughter is an actress at heart, even at 6.
Overall, all time favorite might be Boxcar children though.
And picture books- Gigi, God’s little princess.
My kids love Chronicles of Narnia and Busytown books. Thanks for your great website!
Love the new look!
We have so many favorite books…board books, picture books, history books, chapter books and everything in between. Lately we have been taking a trip back in time with the Little House on the Prairie series and I’m not sure who loves it more- me or the kids! It is such a trip down memory lane to my childhood!
I love the new look! Thank you so much for all you do here at Mama’s! You’ve been a tremendous help to me this past year. I really can’t pick just one favorite book though. We read a lot and love so many. Some of our favorites are: Harold and the Purple Crayon, Never Ask a Dinosaur to Dinner, The Day the Crayons Quit, Maggie and Milo, Bear Goes to the Library, Library Mouse books, just to name a handful.
I like the new site design. Trying to pick a favorite book is so hard! I would have to say one of my top ten favorites is Goodnight Moon. Thanks for all you do on your site!
We loved the Patricia St. John books, Star of the Night, Treasures in the Snow, and The Tanglewood’s Secret. Amazing pieces of Christian literature! Thanks for offering this giveaway!
My daughter loves the Boxcar Children. Love your new look!
We have too many faviorties, but I will go with Charlottes web. I love your site.
Just read aloud James and the Giant Peach. Now on to The Trumpet of the Swan.
Thank you for the great new site! Love the look! One of our favorite books to read is the usborne Children’s Encyclopedia it is part of our curriculum and my kids love the pictures! Who knew a text book could be so fun to read lol!
WE can recite the Tawny Scrawny Lion by heart
We are reading the Little House on the Prairie books. MY boys really enjoy them. They are also into the “I survived”books
Great giveaway ! 🙂 I don’t think my kids have a favorite book, but they have a few favorite series. I can never go wrong with Dr. Suess. We just celebrated his birthday by having a mini readathon. And my girls love the Fancy Nancy series, and my 2yo son is obsessed with Spider-Man right now so I’ve collected quite a few books on Spider-Man. I read to them every night and they love it.
I still enjoy reading “Giraffe’s Can’t Dance.”
The site looks great. My 4 year old has enjoyed the magic tree house series. We even listen to them on cd when we travel.
A first favorite of my children has always been Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do You See by Bill Martin Jr.
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder was a really enjoyable read in our house.
We are currently loving Room on the Broom and The Gruffalo.
My kids (5 and 3-year-old) and I are currently enjoying Lysa TerKeust’s ‘It will be Okay’ featuring Little Seed and Little Fox.
We enjoy reading fairy tales. Currently, we are going through Uncle Wiggily’s stories and really love the narration. A long-time favourite have been and will continue to be the Berenstein Bear series, which I prefer as books more than a tv series. Thank you for the opportunity. The site has definitely improved after this re-design.
I Love Love Love Amelia Bedelia. My kids can’t get enough! We are on our third run through of the series. And we’ve only had them a few months. My son also loves when I’m reading Life of Fred. They are math books that he just wants to keep reading because Fred is so funny! Fred is a 5 year old who teaches at Kittens University.
Our current new love for my 3-year-old is goodnight, Nori, and my daughter who is 6 is deep in the magic treehouse series. She loves the reading together time with dad!
Our current favorite books (we love books in this house, so it changes all the time!) is Dangerous Journey, which is a children’s version of Pilgrim’s Progress. It’s an absolute must read!! The website looks great and thanks so much for the giveaway – what great books!!
Our favorite early read aloud chapter books are the Boxcar Children series.
We just read Finding Winnie The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick. We all loved the true story behind the Winnie the Pooh books.
Thanks for your beautiful site, Lauren, and all the hard work you do. I have gotten so many resources from you and truly appreciate it. (The kindergarten phonics pack is our favorite!)
When my girls were tiny I loved the Pout Pout Fish because it always ended with tons of kisses! And now we’ve been really enjoying the Little House series. But I also love everything Usborne! I’m having my 5 year old draw a page from I Can Draw People everyday for homework and she loves it.
Thanks again!
We have so many favorites it is difficult to choose just one. Two of of our all time picture books are Madeline and the Bad Hat and Make Way for Ducklings. I also love, love, love reading the Little House books aloud.
The new look is great!
We have a couple faves…How to Bake an Apple Pie & See the World, and Nana in the City.
The site looks great!!! Our favorite read alouds are the Little House Series, Encyclopedia Brown Series, The Francis Books, and anything by Dr Seuss. Thanks for the opportunity!
Love the new look!
How to choose… We just checked out Little Hoot by Amy Krouse Rosenthal which we loved! The storyline is quite funny, especially as a parent, and the details in the illustrations have captured my boys’ attention. I had used her book Little Pea as a grade 1 read aloud when I taught, and it really brought on the giggles.
My boys love The Big Birthday Surprise by Dave Ramsey from FPU Junior.
We just finished Charlotte’s Web and my children loved it.
My kids have absolutely fallen in LOVE with The Story of Ferdinand. They think it is sooooo funny 😉
We love this time of year because it means that we are all about everything Suess! My 3 kids and I are huge Suess fans. We have so many of these books. This year is super special because my youngest is just now emerging into reading. This morning he attempted Hop on Pop all by himself!
Thank you for your wonderful site!
I am an elementary special education teacher. We recently read The Rainbow Fish and did a big art project. We used tissue paper to make the ocean scene and then used bubble wrap and paint to stamp fish onto the back drop. Then we made silver fins that each student had to share with another friend, just like Rainbow fish! It was a great activity for the students, working on their fine motor skills and learning to share 🙂 Thank you for all that you do and all that you share!
Frozen of course!
So many to choose from – it’s hard to pick a favorite! I really like Patricia Polacco books and was incredibly touched by Tucky Jo and Little Heart. We read it while studying World War II. She has a way with words and her illustrations are wonderful!
We love to read Transformer books and super hero books with my 4 year old son!! My three year old daughter is very much into Little People flip books and shapes.
Sad I can’t enter, being in Australia! But I guess I couldn’t enter anyway – too many favourites to list one! I have been reading books to my kids for years, and we have SO many favourites – though each of us would chose different ones!
We love Piggie and Elephant books by Mo Willems! They have been checked out from library over and over again!
I like the site, it feels very relaxing and serene. 🙂
We love Treasures of the Snow.
My own children the 4k classes that I teach love all of The Old Lady Who Swallowed something books! I have most of them and enjoy reading them over and over! I wish there was one for every theme I teach!!!!
My favorite book of all time to read aloud if Charlotte’s Web! I enjoy it more every time .
The original Boxcar Children series were my ABSOLUTE favorite to share with my kiddos.
We read from the Bible daily, but on of my children’s favorite things for me to read to them lately is our homeschooling History text, the Mystery of History! 😉
Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss.
My son just finished reading “mat, Sam and Mac” bob books collection. He loves being able to read himself! My older daughter is reading American girls, felicity.
Too many “favorites” to name them all. The favorites collectives of our children were “Sign of the Beaver”, ” Sarah, Plain, and Tall”, “Farmer Boy”, and the Viling Quest series.
Thanks for making these resources available to us!
We love all the books in the llama llama series!
Thank you for the new look! It looks wonderful.
One book I love to read with my early childhood students is Don’t Push the Button! I love this book because the students become filled with pure joy and laughter. I also love seeing their imagination come to life!
It’s hard to choose a favorite, but We love the Bear stories (Bear Snores On, Bear’s New Friend, Bear Wants More, Bear Feels Sick, etc.).
We love all books. My kids read every chance they get!
My girls and I have so many favorites since we love to read…currently their favorites are Big Ball of String and any of the Octonauts books.
After 5 years of homeschooling, our current all time favorite is the Viking Quest series by Lois Walfrid Johnson. All ages (10, 8, 6, and 4) were spellbound by the adventures and even Dad didn’t want to miss bedtime story time! The beautiful way the author weaved in trusting God thru difficult and incomprehensible times ministered to this Mama’s soul after suffering great personal loss, while the kids loved the adventure and courage of the characters. The author also uses real landmarks throughout the series, which served as spring boards for impromptu geography lessons and research!
My twins are 4, so of course their favorites change almost by the second, lol. However the current favorite is “Guess how much I love you.”
My youngest’s favorite book is ‘Fox in Socks’, but we are addicted to nature/learning books. She couldn’t put down a book on the universe, recently.
Lately, we have been reading Blueberries for Sal on repeat
My son loves book about sharks. Right now we are reading Sharks by TIME for kids over and over and over again. 😉
It looks beautiful, my friend!
Right now, we’re loving Mr Floop’s Lunch!
Jesus Calling 🙂
One of my favorite winter books to read is based on a true story and the kids love it! There is a blizzard and school is called off for days. It’s called Blizzard by John Rocco.
Why did it take out my letter i in everything?
Congratulations on your new look! It’s great.
I really enjoy reading The Perfect Present aloud to my daughter. It’s been a regular part of our day to read and now I get to hear her read to me.
We love Bear Wants More, since we have to choose one. My husband does a fabulous job reading this book aloud and our girls love listening! There are so many great books and we love Usborne books!
I love reading Barenstein Bears books to my 4 year old. I love the lesson they teach. I also remember my mom reading them to me when I was younger.
One of my children’s favorite books…hmmmmm…so many to choose from….I think their favorite would be Ribsy by Beverly Cleary.
Only one favorite is impossible… The Hero and the Crown, The Ordinary Princess, Go Dog! Go!, all Bill Peet, Are You My Mother?, any fairytale… reading aloud is the best activity I get to do with my kiddos!
We read a preview of The Usborne Encyclopedia of the Ancient World. My son loves history and he would really enjoy this book because he was disappointed when the preview ended.
My all time favourite book that I read aloud to my children {ages 8 and under} is “Understood Betsy.” It was a book from the AmblesideOnline curriculum for Year 2, but all the way down to my three year old loved it. We didn’t want it to end, and we just fell in love with Elizabeth Ann!
I love reading Richard Scary’s Cars, Trucks and Things That Go! to my grandchildren just as much as I loved reading it with my children!
We have so many favorites, but the one by daughter just loves is Silly Sally by Audrey Wood. It makes her giggle every time we read it.
My middle schooler is so into the Rick Riordan series. She knows way more about ancient mythology now than I do!
I have many favorites…I just read them Otis tonight. It’s definitely high-up on my list of favorites. 🙂
My children always request that we read Fox in Socks, but I really like to read the Chronicles of Narnia series to them.
Enjoying the new look! Picture book favorite: Nine for California
Chapter book: any of The Happy Hollisters series
I’m a homeschooler and we love the Magic Treehouse series. My son is in a book club and he just finished the Lion, the witch and the wardrobe. He loves to read. This is a great giveaway- thanks!!
My three year old son and I read The Cat in the Hat at least once a day. He loves reading it with me. He gets so excited when he finishes mommy’s sentences. I love that books can make such special moments with your children!