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When I was very little, my mom spent a summer teaching us about France. We studied the language, watched movies set in France, read about the country and its customs, and, best of all, baked French treats. Now, I was very small, probably 5 or 6, so there aren’t many specifics I remember from that summer, but I do certainly remember those raspberry tarts.  We did similar things throughout my childhood: I had two bread-baking stints in grade school. The first went along with a picture book I got from the library. There was a mouse who, while trying to...

Book: Roxie ApplesauceAuthor: Tonya L. MatthewsGenre: Faith-based Christian FictionRelease date: August, 2021God takes broken pieces and brings them together for something amazingMarcella Ciscal enjoyed few good days. The reason she knew she could live another day, the way she stayed sane, the friend who never left her side was Roxie Applesauce.Homeless and beaten, Marcella awakens to the care of Haleya Kage who’s going through a difficult season—a demanding career, two teens, and her husband Thomas’s business a casualty of the 2009 economic downturn. Yet, with life unstable and the future unknown, it’s the unpredictable that propels His greater plan.In a story of reconciliation, love, and...

Andrew Cranston’s studio. Photograph courtesy of the artist. Andrew Cranston, whose painting A Room That Echoes appears on the cover of the Review’s new Spring issue, did not intend to become a painter. He grew up in Hawick, a small industrial town in Scotland, and planned to become a joiner. For a time he was in a band, and he eventually started sketching. In 1996, he completed his M.A. in painting at the Royal College of Art in London. He now lives in Glasgow with his partner, Lorna Robertson, who is also an artist and works in the studio next to...

Problem solving picture books can boost your children’s understanding of how to solve math problems and enhance general problem solving skills. Both types of problem solving involve deep thinking to recognize an issue and think through possible solutions to get to a resolution. We tend to call general problem solving “logical thinking”. If you’re looking for information about that type of problem solving, click here. In this post, we will focus on mathematical problem solving. In math, you might need to literally solve a problem (or an equation) and need to figure out how to do that. Or, you might...

Please note that I have been given AmblesideOnline’s permission to use their name in the title and body of this post as well as their permission to use their Artist Study rotation to make these files. It’s that time of year again! Today I’m offering the 2022-2023 AmblesideOnline Picture Study art print files for download! Each free (and no strings attached) PDF includes printable versions of six (or seven) paintings from each artist, taken from the AmblesideOnline Artist Study rotation. This year contains one of my favorites, Vincent van Gogh, as well as Raphael and John Singer Sargent. The Raphael...