Reading Rockets

In the cloud-wrapped mountains of northern Vietnam, Launa Hall explores how young Hmong children are learning to read in Vietnamese — and how early literacy is shaping futures in this remote village.

Learning to Read Around the World: Vietnam

Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne offers a lyrical meditation on the quiet companions that are with us through every chapter of life.

Where the Trees Take You

Read a Tree ...

Poetic picture book author Dianne White invites readers to slow down, look closely, and rediscover trees as unique sources of beauty, inspiration, and story waiting to be seen.

https://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/book-life/read-tree

Celebrate Our Bug Friends!

June 16-22 is Pollinator Week all across the country. Learn about the crucial role that bees, butterflies, moths, and other pollinators play in our natural world with Bug Buddies.

In our free activity kit, you’ll find recommendations for great fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books, videos, apps, and hands-on activities to guide kids’ exploration of insects and their role in sustaining healthy ecosystems and lots of the foods we enjoy around our family table.

https://www.startwithabook.org/summer-science/bug-buddies-book-based-steam-adventure

Award-winning author Laura Gehl reflects on trees with personal stories and simple ways to help kids — and parents — find calm and connection through time spent in nature.
https://www.startwithabook.org/blog/made-shade