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Best Book: Layla’s Happiness, by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie + illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin

Melinda Cropsey

Aug 18, 20201 min read

Best Book: Layla’s Happiness, by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie + illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin

“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...

Melinda Cropsey

Aug 6, 20202 min read

Heart-Minded

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

Melinda Cropsey

Jun 5, 20202 min read

Where is your quiet, happy place?

“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...

Melinda Cropsey

May 25, 20203 min read

Feelings, Whoa, whoa, whoa... Feelings.

“... 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...

Melinda Cropsey

Apr 23, 20202 min read

Cultivating An Attitude of Gratitude

“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...

Breadcrumbs Best Book: Where Happiness Begins, by Eva Eland

Melinda Cropsey

Apr 16, 20201 min read

Breadcrumbs Best Book: Where Happiness Begins, by Eva Eland

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

Melinda Cropsey

Apr 8, 20204 min read

READ - REFLECT - LOVE

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

Melinda Cropsey

Mar 31, 20201 min read

Breadcrumbs Best Book: Penelope's Superpower by Melinda Cropsey + illustrated by Giada Rose

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

Breadcrumbs Best Book: Love, I Love You All the Time! By Emma Dodd

Melinda Cropsey

Feb 18, 20202 min read

Breadcrumbs Best Book: Love, I Love You All the Time! By Emma Dodd

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

Breadcrumbs Best Book: In My Heart, By Jo Witek + illustrated by Christine Roussey

Melinda Cropsey

Feb 4, 20201 min read

Breadcrumbs Best Book: In My Heart, By Jo Witek + illustrated by Christine Roussey

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

Melinda Cropsey

Jan 29, 20201 min read

“There’s No Place Like…”

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,...

Breadcrumbs Best Book: If You Plant a Seed, by Kadir Nelson

Melinda Cropsey

Jan 22, 20201 min read

Breadcrumbs Best Book: If You Plant a Seed, by Kadir Nelson

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,...

Breadcrumbs Best Book: The Rabbit Listened, by Cori Doerrfeld

Melinda Cropsey

Jan 8, 20201 min read

Breadcrumbs Best Book: The Rabbit Listened, by Cori Doerrfeld

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! ...

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