Every week on GoLocalProv I share tips on how families can make the most of their weekend — including helpful hints that make parenting easier and connecting you to great local happenings. This week’s list: Kido Tip 1. Make the Carousel Circuit. Rhode Island is home to five carousels. Many play a significant role in [...]
Today on Kidoinfo, Anika Denise shares her recent interview with Peter Mandel from her blog, Bookmarks. On Tuesday, August 3rd, meet Peter Mandel in real life at Kidoinfo Providence Storytime where Peter will read his new book, Bun, Onion, Burger. Alison Paul, author/illustrator of The Crow (A Not So Scary Story) and new book Sunday [...]
Reviewed by Marcia Maynard Looking for a perfect book for a new baby? Try Roberta Grobel Intrater’s Babyfaces series of board books. Intrater captures expressions and actions of babies with her photographs. She fills her books with photos of irresistible babies and includes simple lines of rhyming text. Smile is about trying to capture the [...]
By Janice O’Donnell, Executive Director, Providence Children’s Museum The new climbing sculpture in Providence Children’s Museum’s garden is mesmerizing, the way a stream or a campfire is. Children swarm up 18 feet to the top of The Climber and back down again, like water spreading in all directions. They climb past and around and over each [...]
By Aja Blanc Associate Educator for Family + Youth programs at the RISD Museum of Art We are concerned with possibility, with opening windows on alternative realities, with moving through doorways into spaces some of us have never seen before. – Maxine Greene In her book Variations on a Blue Guitar, renowned education scholar Maxine [...]
