Lunar Landing Love: Three Fabulous Apollo 11 Picture Books
The following is a not uncommon example of Library Serendipity. I love the public library!
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Earlier this week at the library I picked up my hold for Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11
I read Margaret and the Moon
I also plan to read aloud Moonshot, but it is pretty long, so I requested the audiobook from the library and will listen to that while looking at the book with my kids when the hold comes in. Team Moon is much longer, but could definitely be read aloud with older kids and over many days. It has many nail-biting accounts of challenges and near disasters encountered during the mission (see photo below), and is a fabulous celebration of teamwork and unsung heroism.
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Tons of drama and excitement in Team Moon! |
Library Love
We are major fans and heavy users of the public library. Our family has two cards in our city system, and one card in our county system. We can check out 100 books with each card and we are usually maxed out (at 300 titles!). I frequently haggle with my children over how many titles each gets to check out at the library. Keeping track of these checkouts and avoiding fines is serious business around here. It is a wonderful problem to have.
I would say that the most successful part of our homeschool experiment has been reading aloud. I read aloud for 20+ minutes every morning, and sometimes again after morning recess or at bedtime. I get titles related to their U.S. History and Zoology classes, or to the artists, composers and poets we are studying together in our homeschool, or just pick up whatever random title strikes one of our fancies. I sometimes consult recommended books online, but usually I just browse whatever is available in the library. Sometimes I walk along the picture book shelves and pull off a stack of titles by the same author. We have had tremendous luck and success with this method. I am so grateful for the amazing selection of children's picture books in our library and the fabulous librarians who make the purchasing decisions and rotating displays.
How do you use your public library?
Here are links to all our favorite picture book read-alouds by subject:
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