Raising Readers and Leaders

Raising Readers and Leaders 📚 Diverse & inclusive books
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🌎 Raising readers who ask "why?"

History isn’t just dates — it’s people who changed the world.From freedom fighters to scientists, writers, and astronaut...
03/09/2026

History isn’t just dates — it’s people who changed the world.

From freedom fighters to scientists, writers, and astronauts, these women showed what courage, curiosity, and determination can do.

Let’s raise readers who learn their stories and imagine what they can change next. 💫📚






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futurechangemakers

This month we’re celebrating girls and women who spoke up, asked questions, created art, changed laws, explored space, b...
03/09/2026

This month we’re celebrating girls and women who spoke up, asked questions, created art, changed laws, explored space, broke barriers, and helped make the world more just.

From scientists and athletes to activists, artists, and everyday girls finding their voice — these stories remind young readers that courage, curiosity, and kindness can change the world.

To every child reading these books:
💛 Your voice matters.
💛 Your ideas matter.
💛 Your spark can make a difference.

Happy International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month.

📚 Books featured

Confidence & Voice
• Grace for President
• Girls on the Rise
• Ambitious Girl
• The Spark in You
• I Am Enough
• Stay Angry, Little Girl

Justice & Activism
• Barrio Rising
• Rosa Parks
• Fighting for Yes!
• My Mommy Marches
• Just One Girl
• Sharice’s Big Voice
• She Was the First
• Be the Light

Science & Innovation
• The Girl Who Thought in Pictures
• Counting on Katherine
• Mae Among the Stars
• Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life
• I Am Jane Goodall

Artists & Creators
• I Am Frida Kahlo
• Georgia O’Keeffe
• Ablaze with Color: Alma Thomas
• Make Your Mark

Sports & Perseverance
• Go, Wilma, Go!
• Caitlin Clark
• The Story of Misty Copeland
• Serena Williams
• Gabby Douglas
• Megan Rapinoe

Leaders & Changemakers
• Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice
• I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
• Ketanji Brown Jackson: A Justice for All
• A Life of Service: Tammy Duckworth

Trailblazing Women
• Lucy! How Lucille Ball Did It All
• The Legendary Miss Lena Horne
• A Girl Named Rosita
• Nina: A Story of Nina Simone
• To Boldly Go: Nichelle Nichols

Belonging & Identity
• Laxmi’s Mooch
• Beautifully Me
• The Day You Begin
• Beautiful

Biographies & Collections
• The ABCs of Women’s History
• She Persisted series

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📖 Every story leads to another chapter. 📖✨What began as Sense-Sational Story Time will always have the same heart — help...
03/07/2026

📖 Every story leads to another chapter. 📖✨

What began as Sense-Sational Story Time will always have the same heart — helping kids explore the world through books, curiosity, and kindness.

This next chapter brings more learning, tutoring, parenting moments, and adventures with our wonderfully neurospicy family and our three bald dogs 🐾.

Books are still the center of everything we do — because stories help kids understand themselves, each other, and the world around them.

I’m so grateful you’re here for the next chapter. ☮️💛📚





✨📖 Every story leads to another chapter. 📖✨What began as Sense-Sational Story Time will always have the same heart — hel...
03/07/2026

✨📖 Every story leads to another chapter. 📖✨

What began as Sense-Sational Story Time will always have the same heart — helping kids explore the world through books, curiosity, and kindness.

This next chapter brings more learning, tutoring, parenting moments, and adventures with our wonderfully neurospicy family (and our three bald dogs 🐾).

Books are still the center of everything we do — because stories help kids understand themselves, each other, and the world around them.

I’m so grateful you’re here for the next chapter. ☮️💛📚





✨ Career Day! ✨Today I had the chance to visit my kids’ school and talk about my job as an in-home educator.A lot of stu...
03/06/2026

✨ Career Day! ✨

Today I had the chance to visit my kids’ school and talk about my job as an in-home educator.

A lot of students were curious about what that actually means. I explained that I work with children in their homes to support learning in ways that fit who they are and how they learn best. Some days that looks like reading together, some days it’s hands-on learning, and sometimes it’s helping families find tools that make learning more accessible and joyful.

I brought a few things from my teaching toolkit — favorite picture books, sensory materials, and some of the resources I use when working with students and families.

I also brought books about inclusion, disability, and communication, plus a few sensory tools the kids could explore. The curiosity and kindness from these students was incredible.

Watching kids realize that different doesn’t mean less — it just means different is one of the best parts of what I do.

And of course… no Meg table would be complete without a stack of picture books. 📚

📚✨ ALL reading counts ✨📚Picture books, graphic novels, audiobooks, magazines, board books… upside down, right side up, i...
03/03/2026

📚✨ ALL reading counts ✨📚

Picture books, graphic novels, audiobooks, magazines, board books… upside down, right side up, in a cozy chair or on the go 💛

Every page turned, every story heard, every word discovered builds a reader. There’s no “right” way to fall in love with books — just your way.

Let’s celebrate ALL the ways our kids read! 🌈


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When people start talking about “real masculinity,”I think about men like Fred Rogers and LeVar Burton.Men who sat down ...
02/28/2026

When people start talking about “real masculinity,”
I think about men like Fred Rogers and LeVar Burton.

Men who sat down with children.
Men who read stories.
Men who taught us about feelings.
Men who made kindness look strong.

They weren’t loud.
They weren’t cruel.
They weren’t afraid of gentleness.

They were steady.
They were thoughtful.
They were brave enough to care.

Our boys deserve to know this:

You can be gentle and still be strong.
You can be patient and still be powerful.
You can love books, art, music, learning —
and still be completely, fully a man.

Masculinity is not a cage.
It’s not anger.
It’s not dominance.

It’s character.
It’s integrity.
It’s how you use what you have to make the world safer and kinder for others.

Let’s raise boys who know that empathy is strength.
That education is strength.
That protecting others doesn’t mean controlling them.
That kindness is never weakness.

That’s the kind of masculinity children need to see.





Cuddled up with my youngest and our basket of library books today 💫📚While flipping through the stack, I made the best su...
02/27/2026

Cuddled up with my youngest and our basket of library books today 💫📚

While flipping through the stack, I made the best surprise discovery — completely by chance, Moo had grabbed a PLANETS cookbook last time we were at the library! 🌍🍕

Guess what? It’s part of a whole space-themed series. 🚀✨


✨🌎 PLANETARY PARADE ALERT! 🌎✨Did you know sometimes the planets look like they’re lining up in the sky? 🤯It’s called a p...
02/27/2026

✨🌎 PLANETARY PARADE ALERT! 🌎✨

Did you know sometimes the planets look like they’re lining up in the sky? 🤯

It’s called a planetary parade — and you can see some of them WITHOUT a telescope!

👀 Look for:
⭐ Venus (super bright!)
⭐ Jupiter (big and glowing!)
⭐ Mars (a little reddish!)

Fun fact: They don’t make a perfect line — they just look lined up from where we stand on Earth 🌍💫

If your little astronomers want to learn more, we’ve been loving:
📖 A Child’s Introduction to the Night Sky by Michael Driscoll
📖 My First Book of Planets: All About the Solar System for Kids by Dr. Bruce Betts
📖 Astronomy for Kids: How to Explore Outer Space with Binoculars, a Telescope, or Just Your Eyes! by Bruce Betts, PhD
📖 National Geographic Kids: Planets by Elizabeth Carney

Perfect reads before heading outside to look up ✨🌌

✨🌎 PLANETARY PARADE ALERT! 🌎✨Did you know sometimes the planets look like they’re lining up in the sky? 🤯It’s called a p...
02/26/2026

✨🌎 PLANETARY PARADE ALERT! 🌎✨

Did you know sometimes the planets look like they’re lining up in the sky? 🤯

It’s called a planetary parade — and you can see some of them WITHOUT a telescope!

👀 Look for:
⭐ Venus (super bright!)
⭐ Jupiter (big and glowing!)
⭐ Mars (a little reddish!)

Fun fact: They don’t make a perfect line — they just look lined up from where we stand on Earth 🌍💫

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