The Artful Parent: Simple Ways to Fill Your Family's Life with Art and Creativity--Includes over 60 Art Projects for Children Ages 1 to 8
10 best books like The Artful Parent: Simple Ways to Fill Your Family's Life with Art and Creativity--Includes over 60 Art Projects for Children Ages 1 to 8 (Jean Van't Hul): Come On, Rain!, Mix It Up (Interactive Books for Toddlers, Learning Colors for Toddlers, Preschool and Kindergarten Reading Books), How to Code a Sandcastle, Llama Llama Red Pajama, Flora and the Flamingo, Rosie Revere, Engineer, Boy + Bot, Quick as a Cricket, Little Blue Truck Leads the Way, The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections
| Author | Karen Hesse |
| ISBN | 0590331256 |
I love the colors of this book. It’s about a time that I really don’t like; those hot muggy days you can hardly breath and people are praying for rain to keep things from dying. I can’t stand that time. It makes me want to live in Scotland.
A Mama is taking care of her wilting plants and a girl...
Mix It Up (Interactive Books for Toddlers, Learning Colors for Toddlers, Preschool and Kindergarten Reading Books)
| Author | Hervé Tullet |
| ISBN | 1452137358 |
Accept Hervé Tullet's irresistible invitation to mix it up in a dazzling adventure of whimsy and wonder. Follow the artist's simple instructions, and suddenly colors appear, mix, splatter, and vanish in a world powered only by the reader's imagination. Tullet—who joins such greats as Eric Carle...
| Author | Josh Funk |
| ISBN | 0425291987 |
From the computer science nonprofit Girls Who Code comes this lively and funny story introducing kids to computer coding concepts.
Pearl and her trusty rust-proof robot, Pascal, need to build a sandcastle before summer vacation is over, and they’re going to do it using code. Pearl breaks...
| Author | Anna Dewdney |
| ISBN | 0670059838 |
Llama, Llama red pajama waiting, waiting for his mama. Mama isn’t coming yet. Baby Llama starts to fret. In this infectious rhyming read-aloud, Baby Llama turns bedtime into an all-out llama drama! Tucked into bed by his mama, Baby Llama immediately starts worrying when she goes downstairs, and...
| Author | Molly Idle |
| ISBN | 1452110069 |
In this innovative wordless picture book with interactive flaps, Flora and her graceful flamingo friend explore the trials and joys of friendship through an elaborate synchronized dance. With a twist, a turn, and even a flop, these unlikely friends learn at last how to dance together in perfect harmony....
| Author | Andrea Beaty |
| ISBN | 1419708457 |
Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she's a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When her great-great-aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal--to fly--Rosie sets to work building a contraption to...
| Author | Ame Dyckman |
| ISBN | 0375867562 |
One day, a boy and a robot meet in the woods. They play. They have fun.
But when Bot gets switched off, Boy thinks he's sick. The usual remedies—applesauce, reading a story—don't help, so Boy tucks the sick Bot in, then falls asleep.
Bot is worried when he powers on and finds his friend...
| Author | Audrey Wood |
| ISBN | 0859531511 |
This book has the most fabulous illustrations that depict the adjectives described in the book. This book is all similes that are comparing adjectives to animals. This book can be read a very expressive way that helps to describe the adjectives even more. I just can’t get over the illustrations, they...
Little Blue Truck Leads the Way
| Author | Alice Schertle |
| ISBN | 0152063897 |
Zooom! Wooeeee . . . ! "Make way!" The big city sure is a speedy, noisy place for a country truck like Blue. Everywhere Blue looks, he sees buses, police cars, taxis, vans, a street sweeper, and even the mayor’s limousine. With everyone pushing to be first, soon there’s a giant traffic jam! But even...
| Author | Amanda Blake Soule |
| ISBN | 1590304713 |
When you learn to awaken your family’s creativity, wonderful things will happen: you’ll make meaningful connections with your children in large and small ways; your children will more often engage in their own creative discoveries; and your family will embrace new ways to relax, play, and grow...
| Author | Jennifer Ward |
| ISBN | 1590305353 |
I Love Dirt! presents 52 open-ended activities to help you engage your child in the outdoors. No matter what your location—from a small patch of green in the city to the wide-open meadows of the country—each activity is meant to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a child's...
| Author | Jennifer Hallissy |
| ISBN | 1590308379 |
How do you raise children who love to write? Jennifer Hallissy believes that if you give children a solid foundation of writing basics, they will develop a love of writing that lasts a lifetime. In this book, she shares the secrets for supporting young writers, from the smallest of scribblers to middle-schoolers...
55 playful experiments that encourage tinkering, curiosity, and creative thinking from the creator of Tinkerlab.com—hands-on activities that explore art, science, and more. For children two and up.
Kids are natural tinkerers. They experiment, explore, test, and play, and they...
| Author | Charise Mericle Harper |
| ISBN | 1484726464 |
Yellow Bird has a button. It does . . . nothing! It is a good for nothing button. Red Bird and Blue Bird are excited to try the button. But when they press it, they discover that the button makes them happy. Happy is something! A flabbergasted Yellow Bird insists the button does nothing. But it sure does seem...
| Author | Arthur Geisert |
| ISBN | 1592700985 |
A gorgeously rendered wordless tale of discovery and adventure that is meticulous in architectural detail and bursts with inventiveness. Arthur Geisert's ingenuity engages the child's imagination as well as the adult's through seamless storytelling and zany wit. Invested as always in his porcine...
| Author | Julia Durango |
| ISBN | 0689864566 |
This was fun to read out loud. The sound, the rhythm, seeing the animals move; it made me want to wiggle a little jig too.
Ages: 2 - 5
Cleanliness: mentions cider though doesn't say it's alcoholic and no one gets drunk.
#sounds
**Like my reviews? I also have hundreds...
| Author | Peter Spier |
| ISBN | 0440413478 |
This wordless picture book captures the beauty and wonder of a brother and sister's joyous experiences in the rain. Come along as they explore their neighborhood, splash through puddles, see where the animals hide, and make footprints in the mud. From the first small drops of rain to the clear blue sky...
| Author | David Ezra Stein |
| ISBN | 0763661392 |
Great little story about a dog living on his own who doesn't need anyone but himself until he meets a guy who can scratch that one itch on his back that he can never reach. Once he does he proceeds to take the man under his wing and teach him to do all the the things all humans do with their dogs. Then he discovers...
Your Turn: Careers, Kids, and Comebacks--A Working Mother's Guide
Your Turn is the career coach that today’s working women need to own their career ambition + motherhood path. There are more than fifteen million employed women with children under the age of eighteen in the United States who find themselves smack in the “Messy Middle,” where job opportunity...
The Sh!t No One Tells You About Baby #2: A Guide To Surviving Your Growing Family
| Author | Dawn Dais |
| ISBN | 1580056318 |
The third book in Dawn Dais's popular Sh!t No One Tells You series covers all a parent needs to know once the reality of having two children settles in.
Around the time your first baby turns a year old your brain will turn on you. For reasons that are still not understood by science, the sleep...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… but not for Angie Martinelli…
Having lost her boyfriend, job, and apartment all in the space of a week, Angie has no choice but to leave California and return to her family in New England.
Determined not to let life weigh her down, Angie...
Feed the Resistance: Recipes + Ideas for Getting Involved (Julia Turshen Book, Cookbook for Activists)
| Author | Julia Turshen |
| ISBN | 1452168385 |
From favorite cookbook author Julia Turshen comes this practical and inspiring handbook for political activism—with recipes. As the millions who marched in January 2017 demonstrated, activism is the new normal. When people search for ways to resist injustice and express support for civil rights,...
How far would you go to change your life?
What do you do when the man you've been married to for forty years makes a decision that will change the course of your life forever?
After nearly forty years of marriage Sylvie's comfortable life with John is about to fall apart after some unexpected...
Small Victories: Recipes, Advice + Hundreds of Ideas for Home Cooking Triumphs (Best Simple Recipes, Simple Cookbook Ideas, Cooking Techniques Book)
| Author | Julia Turshen |
| ISBN | 1452143099 |
"I can't wait to cook my way through this amazing new book," Ina Garten writes in the foreword to this cookbook of more than 400 recipes and variations from Julia Turshen, writer, go-to recipe developer, co-author for best-selling cookbooks such as Gwyneth Paltrow's It's All Good, Mario Batali's Spain...on...
The Second Chance Supper Club
| Author | Nicole Meier |
| ISBN | 1542041562 |
Two estranged sisters reunite in an emotional novel of family, forgiveness, lost hope, and new beginnings.
They had a forever bond, until a sudden tragedy thrust them apart. Now, each at a crossroad in her own life, two sisters’ paths are about to intersect.
Broadcast journalist...
| Author | Benjamin Chaud |
| ISBN | 1452140286 |
Hibernation is over and Little Bear is ready for another adventure! But where is Papa Bear? Never fear, Little Bear will find him! Follow the curious cub through interactive cutouts on every page of this detail-rich extravaganza: into a bustling forest, deep beneath a mysterious cave, and en route...
Nature Play at Home: Creating Outdoor Spaces that Connect Children with the Natural World
“A magnificent resource for transforming backyards into stimulating environments which enhance children’s creativity, learning, and fun.” —Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, The Nature Principle, and Vitamin N
Access to technology has created a generation...
| Author | Arthur Geisert |
| ISBN | 1592702651 |
Drawn from life, Arthur Geisert’s Pumpkin Island is the fantastical story of a real life town brought to a halt by a profusion of pumpkins.
Elkader, Iowa, is the perfect picture of small town life—that is, until the pumpkins arrive. One pumpkin? Fine. Two pumpkins? Okay. But with pumpkins growing...
| Author | H. Norman Wright |
| ISBN | 1565076982 |
My wife and I try to do daily devotionals. We think it strengthens our relationship and put God in the center. Many times the devotion will lead to a discussion that needed to take place that might not have come up otherwise. We always end our devotions praying together. A couple who prays together stays...
