by Kim Jacobs | Aug 22, 2021 | Newest
Sports Primer: Take Me Out to the Ball Game! Baseball is often considered the “all-American” sport. Baseball has given us idioms: strike out (very unsuccessful), home run (very successful), ballpark number (an approximation), curve ball (something...
by Kim Jacobs | Aug 11, 2021 | Blog
Renaissance Festivals: Jousting About! Every summer, I see knights, noble lords and ladies, wizards, faeries, a walking plant twice as tall as I am, and even the queen. Do I travel through time? Kind of—it’s time for the Renaissance Festival again! Renaissance...
by Kim Jacobs | Jun 19, 2021 | Books
And Tango Makes Three And Tango Makes Three is a very sweet picture book telling the true story of Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins in the Central Park Zoo in New York City. In 1998, they became an inseparable couple and incubated an egg (a second egg laid by...
by Kim Jacobs | Jun 17, 2021 | Books
The Night Before Father’s Day This rhyming picture book is styled after The Night Before Christmas, but instead of waiting for Santa, this family works together to clean out the garage, organize Dad’s tools, and wash the car (along with topping off the...
by Kim Jacobs | Jun 16, 2021 | Blog
Holidays in America: Father’s Day Father’s Day is always the third Sunday in June. In 2021, this puts it on June 20. Like Mother’s Day in May, Father’s Day isn’t a federal holiday, but is widely celebrated. Father’s Day began in 1910, two...
