Every night my daughter and I read together.    This has been a ritual since she was a little baby.   Now that Nova is 7 we choose our books together and she is starting to read to me.      Our recent favorites are fun for parents too.    Tricycle Press does some great children's books.  Ten Speed Press  Their books are thoughtful, intelligent, witty and worldly.

Making Cents by Elizabeth Keeler Robinson
illustrations by Bob McMahon

This is a complicated subject for little ones and the book makes it fun, exuberant and
entertaining.   Packed with cool facts about currency.   A great math tool to start a little investor on the path to saving money, not just spending it.


G is for Googol   A Math Alphabet Book
by: David M. Schwartz and illustrated by Marissa Moss


super cute and funny.   A great way to teach mathematical  terms like "unit" and "obtuse".

What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Alusio

A fantastic photo book accompanied by stories about the families and how they live.    

Every day, millions of families around the world gather--at the table or on the floor, in a house or outdoors--to eat together. Ever wondered what a typical meal is like on the other side of the world? Or next door? Cultural geographers Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio visited twenty-five families in twenty-one countries to create this fascinating look at what people around the world eat in a week. Meet a family that spends long hours hunting for seal and fish together; a family that raises and eats guinea pigs; a family that drinks six gallons of Coca-Cola a week.

This enthralling glimpse into cultural similarities and differences is at once a striking photographic essay and an essential study in nutrition and the global marketplace. (review courtesy of press release)

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