Recommended: Hug by Jez Alborough

This is a great book to read with little ones. Minimal text (essentially just the one word) means the child can focus on the pictures and the story. There are lots of animals, all engaged in hugging. Bobo the chimpanzee goes on a search that becomes a little sad, but his friends help him along.…

by shepherdsb

Recommended: I Will Take a Nap by Mo Willems

I don’t normally love Early Readers. They’re not exactly picture books but not quite chapter books, and the language tries so hard to be simple that it’s unnatural and therefore hard to read. That being said, Mo Willems got me with this one. I Will Take a Nap made me laugh out loud. I won’t…

by shepherdsb

The Best Four Dollars I Ever Spent

When I was serving in my ward elders quorum presidency (before the COVID-19 pandemic), one of the counselors and I made a visit to a home where we’d heard the kids were sick. We talked to the mother on the doorstep and found out her husband was sick, too. She was carrying a heavy load.…

by shepherdsb

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