“Children become like the things they love.”1 Maria Montessori Layla is a savvy seven year old who is very much attuned to those things...

“One sees rightly only with the heart.  What is essential is invisible to the eye.” The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupery Young...

“To exist and mix with our fellow men we must sometimes retire into solitude and acquire strength; only then do we look with love on the...

“... we very often have little or no control over when we are swept by emotion, nor over what emotion it will be.  But we can have some...

“Our work as adults does not consist in teaching, but in helping the infant mind in its work of development.” 1 Maria Montessori In honor...

HOT OFF THE PRESS!  Dutch author-illustrator Eva Eland’s debut children’s book, When Sadness is at Your Door, was featured as a...

“The child is a well-spring of love.”1 - Maria Montessori Social distancing may present a unique opportunity to develop social-emotional...

My goal in writing Penelope’s Superpower was to offer young children a tool for quieting their minds, self-soothing and connecting to the...

For some months now, I’ve been enjoying piloting a “Breadcrumbs Basics” curriculum for the very young—children between the ages of 2-4. ...

In My Heart is the perfect social-emotional primer for the little one in your life.  Playful prose, bright colors, innovative...

We all hold in our movie-memory banks, that magical scene in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy closes her eyes, clicks her heels three times,...

Kadir Nelson’s beautifully illustrated If You Plant a Seed is a feast for both the eyes and the heart! A Rabbit and Mouse duo plant,...

I have an impressive stack of books in my Best Book blog pile… and once in a while a book comes to my attention that leaps to the TOP! ...