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First Books for Baby and Helpful First-Year​ Reading Tips for 2023
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First Books for Baby and Helpful First-Year​ Reading Tips for 2023

This is the first post in our series about reading and language development. In this post, first books for baby, we will not only give you some great ideas for how to read to your baby but we will also give you some of our favorite books to get you started. Reading for Language Development…

Author Interviews

Author Interviews

While the picture above was taken at an-person event where we interviewed author Bianca Marais, we’ve had the distinct honor of interviewing quite a few authors during the pandemic. We even interviewed Bianca again! We’ve come to really look forward to these author interviews and we know you do too. That’s why we created this…

The Importance of Reading and 7 Helpful Reading Readiness Tips
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The Importance of Reading and 7 Helpful Reading Readiness Tips

Many of you may not know this but, in addition to running Beyond the Bookends, I am also a trained, licensed Speech-Language Pathologist with teaching certification who has been working with children for 15 of my 20 years in the field.  I see firsthand the power and importance of reading. I am in a unique…

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Keeping Kids Connected + 11 Picture Books About Friendship

Since April was supposed to be friendship month around here because of the reading challenge prompt, we had planned to share a list of picture books about friendship. Since we are now living in a time where friendships look a little different for kids, we thought we would enhance the post with some ideas on…