Here’s this week’s edition of The Books That Fill Our Shelves. I’d love to hear what your family is reading this week. I love receiving book recommendations from others!
The Books that Fill Our Shelves
Cait recently finished:
Quiet Kids: Help Your Introverted Child Succeed in an Extroverted World by Christine Fonseca
Did you enjoy Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain? If so, and especially if you have an introverted kiddo, you’ll enjoy this book on introverted children by Christine Fonseca.
The kids recently finished:
We recently finished reading our Grandparent Journals. They are a read aloud unlike any other, folks! A treasure for the whole family. Read my guest post over at Doing Good Together to find out how you can make your own!
Violet the Pilot by Steve Breen
This week we read Violet the Pilot as part of our {virtual} Family Book Club at My Little Poppies. This is a fantastic story about a young girl who loves to create flying machines out of various materials. I love STEM stories with female protagonists! Speaking of which, have you seen the post about our family’s favorite STEM resources? And if you liked that one, stay tuned for a favorite STEM books guest post by yours truly over at Year Round Homeschooling!
Leo is reading:
Leo is currently obsessed with the Bones series:
T is currently reading several kindergarten-themed books from her Nana, including the following:
Kindergarten Here I Come! by D.J. Steinberg
Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come! by Nancy Carlson
Seuss is still “reading”:
Marvel: The Ultimate Character Guide
Seuss is obsessed with this book! He goes to sleep reading it and wakes up reading it. He packed it for vacation!
Cait is currently reading:
It’s so refreshing to read about asynchronous development from some of the best around. I could read this quickly but I’m trying to read one chapter a day and savor it a bit. I can relate to so much in this book, folks.
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
This has been on my to-read list forever. I was dragging my feet because I knew it would be a heavy, sad read. Schizz recently finished it and he’s dying to watch the movie (and I don’t watch read books after I’ve seen the movie), so I decided to go for it. It’s a truly amazing, sad, unbelievable story. I’m so glad that this story was told, even if it is hard to get through.
How to Change Your {Blogging} Life with Google Analytics
I always laugh that I actually have a blog because I don’t understand the first thing about it. My friend Colleen suggested that I check this book out and so I’m reading it now. Just started it and will report back, folks!
This week, the kids are planing to read:
Continuing with our STEAM-Filled month of May at the {virtual} Family Book Club at My Little Poppies, we’ll be reading the following books:
Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty
Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty
Tell me, what are you reading?? Share here!
I’d love to add your favorites to my Goodreads list! Also, parents… have you seen my How to Start a Family Book Club post? It’s a fun way to encourage reading for the entire family!
More Information on Our Book Club:
The {virtual} Family Book Club at My Little Poppies is an awesome group of readers. It has been wonderful to connect with folks as book-obsessed as we are over here. If you would like to join in the fun, please join the Family Book Club @ My Little Poppies Facebook group. We cover one book every week and you can participate as much as you’d like. There’s no pressure! We share crafts, lessons, and other activities related to each book and by the week’s end we have an entire Pinterest board related to the text. That way, if you miss anything or if you have a crazy week (it happens to all of us), you can go back at your leisure and explore the book on your own time.
All of the books (and more!) from the {virtual} Family Book Club at My Little Poppies can be found here:
All of the lessons, crafts, and activities based on each book can be found here, listed by title and author:
Visit Cait Fitz @ My Little Poppies’s profile on Pinterest.
