Yesterday in Auburn, it was the Community Harvest Festival, a fun for kids local event, with scarecrow and costume weighing contests, pumpkin painting and cookie decorating booths, costume parade, horses to pet, food and live music.
Read more…New children’s books: Endangered animals & natural wonders
New children’s books that celebrate natural wonders – extraordinary animal migrations, “gray ghost of the mountains,” protecting endangered species, a look inside our planet, water in all its forms, how the natural world fits together, a desert flower that blooms once a year.
Read more…Nihonmachi Street Fair SF
This weekend – Nihonmachi Street Fair in San Francisco Japantown. A neighborhood event with since 1973, the fair welcomes and showcases diversity, “For the Community, Embracing All Communities.”
Read more…Travel through Africa, with Books
We are eager to travel more in Africa, but in the meantime, here are new and favorite children’s books. Read inspiring and original stories of contemporary life in Kenya, Botswana, Nigeria, South Sudan, Gambia, Mauritania, South Africa.
Read more…Go Berry Picking
At summer farms, kids have a great time picking blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries. Find our list of u-pick farms around the United States, and try our recipe for Blueberry & Peach Crumble.
Read more…July 4 at Bodega Bay
Bodega Bay, a couple hours from San Francisco is a fun family destination for July 4th.
We hiked and picnicked on Bodega Head, visited a mobile tide pool, and watched red-white-and-blue-kites soaring over Doran Beach.
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