Charlie Brown Historical People Series Joy Makin Mamas Review

You’re the greatest, Charlie Brown!

My eldest can be Bored IDon’tWanna McBordeypants Ruler of the BoredLandians, and if you say, “Let’s read a book,” he comes around instantly, and Little Brother follows right behind him. (I don’t want to say they take after their mother, but… they take after their mother.) He does have standards, of course- if he doesn’t like the way a book is written or the way the story is going, he won’t hesitate to inform you that there will be No More Reading Of The Hobbit Ever because he just can’t want to be part of this family when we read the Hobbit. (But if there’s a Lego version of it, though, that would be fine… I have no words.)

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Maddi's Fridge by Lois Brandt Vin Vogel Review by Joy Makin' Mamas

Hunger in our communities: PWNED by Maddi’s Fridge

#girls making a difference… Sofia and Maddi play in the same park. They live in the same neighborhood. When Sofia realizes that there is no food at Maddi’s house, Maddi makes her promise not to tell. This book is a story about hunger in our communities, and what we (even kids!) can do about it. My favorite sentence is: “10% of profits donated to help fight childhood hunger.”

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Mom Made Us Write This Unboxing Photo Joy Makin Mamas

Book for tweens helps with sibling and blended family drama

Twin siblings Maggie and Max are assigned by their mother to create a handwritten journal over the course of a summer. She lays out some ground rules, and then they are to take turns going first and then responding to one another’s entries. The result is the kind of messy, handwritten, doodled in journal that has been building creativity since paper stopped being as precious as diamonds.

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