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Kittens for Keeps: Beaches, Kittens and Making Choices
There are only three books that we haven’t yet read on the Before Five in a Row (BFIAR) booklist: My Blue Boat by Chris Demarest, The Quiet Way Home by Bonny Becker, and Jenny’s Surprise Summer by...
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Kerplink! Kerplank! – Onomatopoeia for Preschoolers
“Blueberries for Sal” by Robert McCloskey was one of the first books that we read when we started following Before Five in a Row two years ago. It is about Sal, a little girl who goes blueberry-picking...
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Even Small Kids Can Learn Big Words
Natural vocabulary acquisition is one of the wonderful benefits of regularly reading to our children – that is, if we take the time to explain and to demonstrate what a word means! Little T was just...
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Finding “The Quiet Way Home”
The Quiet Way Home is one of the harder books to find in the Before Five in a Row book list. I am resigned to the possibility that we won’t find a copy at all. After all, Five in a Row as a whole has...
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Exploring Art, Shadows, and Manners with “If Jesus Came to My House”
If Jesus Came to My House is a lovely story about a boy who imagines what it would be like to have Jesus as a visitor. At the end of the story, he realizes that while it is not possible for Jesus to...
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