Can we read? Resources

Reading guides

If you’re looking for a huge number of seasonal or specific recommendations, the following guides — all instant downloads with a one-time cost — are a great place to start. (They’re also an economical way to access some of my best book reviews without committing to a paid subscription.)

Can we read? Children’s Picture Books for Fall

Can we read? Children’s Picture Books for Summer

Can we read? Children’s Picture Books for Spring

Can we read? Children’s Poetry Almanac

Can we read? Children’s Picture Books for Christmas

I’m hard at work on additional guides — all of which go out to paid subscribers for free, so if you enjoy these, upgrade your subscription today and never miss another one.

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Information about raising readers

📕 Why representation matters

📗 Reading routines

📘 Strategies for raising readers

📙 Choosing good books

📕 Creating environments and routines for reading

📗 Storing books and reading nooks

📘 “Looking books”

📙 Seasonal book routines

📕 The case for continued picture books

📗 Why poetry matters for kids

📘 Advice for the school year from two literacy interventionists

📙 Ask Me Anything (2021)

📕 Ask Me Anything (2023)

📗 Supporting emerging readers

📘 How to overcome obstacles to reading

📙 Preventing summer slide

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Spotlight On editions

🧙‍♀️ Folk and Fairy Tales, Part 1

🧚 Folk and Fairy Tales, Part 2

💧 Loss, Death, and Grief

🧮 Counting books

♾️ Developing mathematical thinking

🌱 Gardening

🛠️ Makers & making

💃🏻 Bodies and bodily joy

📚 Poetry

✏️ Back to school

🧘‍♀️ Mindfulness and meditation

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Mini issues

🦕 Dinosaurs

🍁 Maple sugaring

🐝 Insects, pollinators, and some insects that are also pollinators

👩‍🌾 Farmer’s market

🇺🇸 Memorial Day and Veterans Day

🌿 Gardening

🎇 4th of July

🏕️ Camping, stargazing, and constellations

⚡️ Mythology

👩‍🎨 Women in art

🥣 Soup

🧶 Knitting

🌟 Values

🪱 Worms

🪣 Outdoor play

🌊 Lighthouses

🦉 Owls

👩‍🔬 Women in STEM

🕊️ Peace

🐻 Hibernation

💤 Poetry for bedtime

🚧 Construction

🏊‍♀️ Swimming

🍳 Cooking and baking

🪐 Space

🤖 Robots

🕯️ Winter solstice

🏹 Mythology

☮️ Peace

🌆 Cities

👧 Siblings

💩 Poop, pee, and puke

🚴‍♀️ Bikes and biking

🖍️ Colors

🐷 Farms and farming

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