popcorn

The theme for our Instagram #littlelitbookseries this month is fall/Halloween.  My kids were so enthralled with Popcorn by Franck Asch that they read it several times within the first few days of having it.  It’s Halloween and Sam invites his friends over for a costume party while his parents are away.  They each politely bring the same treat to share—popcorn!  Sam makes the fantastically unfortunate decision to pop everyone’s popcorn and a quietly hilarious fiasco ensues.

Please check out everyone else's favorite fall/Halloween reads in the #littlelitbookseries.

redwoods

What makes Jason Chin's Redwoods extraordinary is that it's both a brilliant imaginary tale and a rich, well-researched expository text.  A boy starts reading a random book about redwood trees left on a bench in a subway station.  As he becomes immersed in the book, he finds himself going back in time, literally.  He starts to learn about the history of the magnificent redwood, gets off at his stop, walks up the stairs of the subway station and emerges into a deep, foggy forest of coastal redwoods.

And if you've never been to Redwood National Park in Northern California, I'll be posting a few photos from a trip I took there some years ago on Instagram.  It is a vast sea of majestic redwoods, fog and unbelievable beauty and so worth a visit no matter how far away you live.