Little Pickle Stories

11/22/2022

What does it mean to be present? It means . . . being grateful for your family and friends and telling them so.

08/08/2021

Page Journeys Children’s Book Review of What Does It Mean to Be Green? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Author: Rana DiOrio
Illustrator: Addy Rivera Sondo
Publisher: Sourcebooks Kids | Little Pickle Press

What a wonderful book this is to teach children about the importance of taking care of our planet! What Does It Mean to Be Green? is a simple introductory book on this topic, with beautiful engaging illustrations by Addy Rivera Sondo. The children featured in the book are diverse and happily, actively engaged in the process of being green.

DiOrio describes first what being green is not, then leads into an overview of what it does mean. Areas covered include power and water conservation, fresh and local food, transportation, reusing, trash pick-up, recycling, and composting. A nice variety of locations that children will relate to are featured. The narrative includes settings such as park, playground, farmer’s market, beach, home, garden, and farm. A summary of the “5 Rs” adds more detail for zero-waste living. These are presented in a way that allows for discussion between children and adults. This book is appealing to both the target audience of children as well as adults. I highly recommend it for school and public libraries, homes, and gifts. It would really be a nice addition to the little free libraries that are popular now.

Thank you and for the advance reader’s copy of this book and the opportunity to provide an unbiased review.

Repost:

07/31/2021

10/02/2019

Another exciting day for SourcebooksKids | Little Pickle Press! We learned that What Does It Mean To Be American? earned a Gold Moonbeam Award in the Nonfiction -Picture Books category and Love is Love earned a Silver Moonbeam Award in the Picture Books - All Ages category! Heartfelt congratulations to the authors, illustrators, and production teams (and their loving families who believed in these meaningful stories and supported their creatives throughout the long journey to publication and beyond)!

03/12/2019

800 lucky children in Branford, CT will be receiving What Does It Mean To Be Kind? to celebrate Week of the Young Child (April 8 - 12, 2019)! How kind!

02/09/2019

One of The Reading Tub's for young readers posts features two by Rana DiOrio and Little Pickle Stories They ❤ the "What Does It Mean" series for its originality in concepts it explains to kids http://bit.ly/2RzJ02t

01/31/2019

Be Kind! ❄️🌻📖

Check out the most logged books from last week! Which book will you grab to read for the final week of the challenge?

01/10/2019

Have you reserved your copy of What Does It Mean to Be American? Become one of the first to get the children's picture book that reviewers believe "...encourages children to dream big and embraces our country’s foundational principles.”

Available today for pre-order on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2SNSBUm

01/06/2019

We're excited to welcome the newest book in our What Does It Mean To Be... series this year. In this installment Rana DiOrio has teamed up with Elad Yoran to explore what it means to be an American.

Spoiler alert: it's not baseball and apple pie. (Though those are fun too!)

Being American means honoring those who protect and serve us!

Pre-order your copy of "What Does It Mean to Be American?" to share with your children. https://amzn.to/2SNSBUm

11/05/2018

It's here! The cover for our newest installment in the What Does It Mean To Be...?® series dropped today. Check it out!

Hint: It's not Apple Pie or Baseball.

08/07/2018

A Bird on Water Street is now available in China! 🇨🇳 🐦 📚

06/22/2018

"Many children get frustrated when they are learning something... This book has taught me one way to handle my son’s frustration as he experiences the trial and error process."

I have been fascinated with child brain development since I became a mom. When I saw the book, Your Fantastic Elastic Brain, Stretch It, Shape It by JoAnn Deak, PhD, in my local library, I had to r…