Well done! My kids are grown but we spent a lot of time listening to children's audio books in the car. Our favorite audio series was Junie B Jones. The narrator is fantastic. Junie B is a little sassy but I tried to use her sassy moments as a way to teach my children how not to behave.

Nice blog : )

I love Schoolhouse Rock! Figure 8 is still my favorite (such beautiful music) but Naughty Number 9 is a close second. And I'm Just A Bill....that is a classic.

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Renovator Girl- Can you add a message button on your Houzz page? If not, I put your blog on my Twitter page and someone has already liked it :)

Thanks, lavender_lass and d_gw! We love audiobooks at our house.

I got a question from a friend about how to handle Charlotte's death in Charlotte's Web. Any thoughts?

Totally cool blog idea! I collect children's picture books and do reading programs where I work at an arboretum. Plus my late mom was a librarian, I am a born in the blood book-a-holic. As far as Charlotte's Web, I cried like a baby when Charlotte died, but I survived. Death is part of life, you can't shield kids from it, but you can help them deal with it, the same way adults cope. When bad things happen, you get help from friends, the way Charlotte helped Wilbur and then in the end Wilbur helped Charlotte and made new friends. You remember your dead friend and pay it forward. Just like dear departed Mr. Rogers said, when bad thing happen, look for the helpers, there are always helpers out and about if you can find them. I recall how John McCain said that even under the worst conditions of being a prisoner of war in N. Vietnam, he didn't dwell on his suffering and bitterness afterwards, just how lucky he was that he got to come back to the US. When people die we have to carry on and use our memories of our loved ones' life and kindness to inspire us to carry it forward. But I think also, with the book, everyone deals with death differently so however you think it is best for someone to deal with death is how you help your kid deal with it in the book. Yeah, death sucks but ignoring it doesn't make it go away so I think that book is a good introduction for kids to some difficult times but also the power of love to rise above the bad. But honestly, I just read the book, cried and moved on. It didn't scar me for life or anything. I wouldn't project problems onto a kid reading that book ahead of time. I would say nine times out of ten a kid will just read it and it will hit different kids differently and some may want to process it with parents and some not, everyone is different. I may have had some discussion with my mom about death after I read the book, but again, it was just part of my life, nothing earth shaking. My grandma died the same year I read "Charlotte's Web." That was a LOT more earth shaking for me.