by Laurie Bluedorn | Nov 3, 2014 | Children's Books, Reading Aloud, Reviews, Ron Paul
Here we have a thirteenth-century Scotland overrun by tyrants — English soldiers doing the bidding of their King Edward who was bent on nation-building and greed. Here we have a freedom-minded people who acknowledge none but the laws of God and their own country, and...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Jul 30, 2014 | Children's Books, Reading Aloud
Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, read by Cherry Jones Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry, read by Edward Herrmann Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne, read by Peter Dennis The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White, read by E. B. White Johnny Tremain by...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Feb 24, 2014 | Raising Children, Reading Aloud
Talking to babies boosts their brain power, studies show. Reading bedtime stories to babies and talking to them from birth boosts their brain power and sets them up for success at school, researchers say.
by Laurie Bluedorn | Feb 13, 2014 | Children's Books, Reading Aloud
Penrod by Booth Tarkington Penrod Schofield is twelve and has been volunteered by his mother for “The Pageant of the Table Round” in which he is to play the Child Sir Lancelot du Lake. He gets himself into a mountain of trouble when he exchanges his gaudy...
by Laurie Bluedorn | Jan 29, 2014 | Reading Aloud
I’d been a constant reader since childhood, led into it by my mother reading aloud to the family. And strangely, I found that I’d learned to write from reading. –Ralph Moody, author of Little Britches, Father and I Were Ranchers
by Laurie Bluedorn | Oct 29, 2013 | Children's Books, Reading Aloud
Who’s your favorite reader of books-on-tape? Here’s mine. This is one of his best.
