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10 Doodle Books for Girls

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My girls, ages 9 and 11 years, love to draw and doodle. They would gladly doodle all day long. One great thing about homeschooling is that they can doodle for a good part of the day. These doodle books are a great way for your girls to doodle, and not doodle on their school work as well as learn how to draw different things.

10 doodle books for girls

10 Doodle Books for Girls

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These are also great for Christmas or birthday gifts, girls just wanna doodle!

Amazing Pictures to Complete and Create

From magic forests to dream castles, girls will love drawing and doodling in this fun activity book for creative kids, featuring full-color artwork and perforated pages perfect for putting your favorites on display.

Beginner-Friendly Empowering Art Activities for Tweens

This isn’t just another kid’s coloring book! Its empowering art statements are designed specifically for the design-savvy TWEEN who thinks kids books are too juvenile and mom’s adult coloring books are too, well… adult!

How to Draw Cute Stuff

Draw anything and everything—people, animals, and things—and make it CUTE. It’s easy! Budding artists just have to pick up their pencils, pens, crayons, or gel markers and follow these step-by-step how-to sequences.

Dazzling Designs from Dogs & Cats to Hedgehogs & Hermit Crabs

From hamsters and hermit crabs to cats and canaries, you’ll meet your favorite animal companions inside this fun and engaging coloring book for tweens!

Doodle Diary: Art Journaling for Girls

This is an interactive guide to doodling that teaches girls how to combine images with words and art journaling techniques.

Creative Doodle Book for Girls: Learn How to Draw Amazing Doodles and Let Your Creativity Flow

This beautiful book was created to inspire your imagination. With empowering messages, girly designs, and a minimalist approach we allow you to make this book completely unique… like YOU!

Draw, Doodle, Use Your Noodle: A Complete-The-Picture Coloring Book 

Unlike coloring books, which keep you inside the lines, Draw, Doodle, Use Your Noodle, lets creativity flow. The pictures have been started, but it’s up to you to fill in the rest.

Scrumptious Designs; Beginner-Friendly Empowering Art Activities

From cupcakes and cannoli to gingerbread and gelato, these scrumptious designs offer empowering art activities for young girls.

Doodles Fabulous Fashion

Inside this book you’ll find 30 fun Notebook Doodles fashion designs that are just waiting to be filled with color. You’ll also find a coloring art lesson, more than 20 inspiring color palettes, 8 pages of colored examples, and inspiring quotes to go with every design.

I Am Confident, Brave & Beautiful

This groundbreaking coloring book is all about building a girl’s confidence, imagination, and spirit! The 22+ coloring pages encourage girls to think beyond social conventions and inspire conversations with adults about what it really means to be confident, brave, and beautiful.

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5 Book Series for Girls Aged 11-13 Years Old

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These are book series for girls aged 11-13 years old. Books for girls that they might not see on their own, or might not pick up without you maybe mentioning or pointing them out to them. Which is how my daughter came across some of these books.

5 Book Series Girls Aged 11-13 Years Old

5 Book Series for Your 11-13 Year Old Girls

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I am that parent. The one that let’s the kids pick out whatever books they want from the children’s and youth sections of the library. I do introduce new books series to them all the time because I know they’ll enjoy them and maybe they won’t find them otherwise.

Over the weekend my daughter found a great new books series though that I want to share with you first. The Wizard’s of Once. Much to her delight she lucked out and got the first book in this series. She cannot wait to read the others as well now that she has found this one. The others are Twice Magic, and Knock Three Times.

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The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Series

Did your kids read Harry Potter? If they did then they’ll probably remember Nicholas Flamel. The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Series. The ledge that is Nicholas Flamel, is the greatest Alchemyst to ever live. The records show that he died in 1418, but what if he’s actually been making the elixir of life for centuries?

Real Friends

“Sixth grade is supposed to be perfect. Shannon’s got a sure spot in the in-crowd called The Group, and her best friend is their leader, Jen, the most popular girl in school. … Shannon has to scramble to keep up. She never knows which TV shows are cool, what songs to listen to, and who she’s allowed to talk to. ” You have Real Friends, and Best Friends.

The Babysitters Club

I read the Babysitter Club books growing up, they are now referred to as the “retro” set. You can actually buy the first 6 books in a collectors tin.

With the new Netflix TV series coming out the Babysitters club books have gotten an updated look, but still have the same great content, without all the adult content that a lot of newer books can have. You’ll have to check them out for your daughters, and nieces.

They have a new version now and they are actually graphic novels. Which I have no problem with. They are still a fun book, following the adventure of best friends as they babysit and have fun together.

Emmie & Friends

Our librarian in Saskatchewan turned my girls onto this books, and we just realized they had another book come out in May 2020. We’re excited over here! There is: Invisible Emmie, Positively Izzy, Just Jaime, and Becoming Brianna.

A Sam London Adventure Series

Sam London didn’t mean to uncover an ancient secret, but when he found out that mythical creatures are real and living in our national parks, he became the newest recruit to the Department of Mythical Wildlife. Ever since, the middle schooler has been anxiously awaiting the call for his next case . . .

Audiobooks: Yes or No?

Not everyone love audiobooks. I don’t love them, I like them if we are traveling a bit of a distance with my kids. My husband loves them because he does a lot of travelling for work.

Amazon has a great collection of audiobooks you might want to check. Your homeschool read aloud may just get easier on you.

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Books on Amazing Women for Our Girls

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Books on Amazing Women for Our Girls

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I have a science, and fact loving kid, she loves spouting out facts. This week she informed me that she needs the libraries to open back up so that she can get more science facts and animal books so she can learn more and give provide us with new and interesting facts. These books are perfect for us, I want to introduce my kids to books on amazing women that can encourage them to do whatever they want.

Books on Amazing Women for Our Girls

Books on Amazing Women for Our Girls

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I am all about giving my kids books based on facts, if they want to learn about something then I am not going to stop them. I’m going to find books like the ones below that might interest them.

The Science Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained – Discover 80 trail-blazing scientific ideas, which underpin our modern world, giving us everything from antibiotics to gene therapy, electricity to space rockets and batteries to smart phones.

Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space – Filled with beautiful full-color illustrations, a groundbreaking compendium honoring the amazing true stories of fifty inspirational women who helped fuel some of the greatest achievements in space exploration from the nineteenth century to today—including Hidden Figure’s Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson as well as former NASA Chief Astronaut Peggy Whitson, the record-holding American biochemistry researcher who has spent the most cumulative time in space.

Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures – Women in Space profiles 23 pioneers, including Eileen Collins, the first woman to command the space shuttle; Peggy Whitson, who logged more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station; and Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space; as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, France, and more. Readers will also learn about the Mercury 13, American women selected by NASA in the late 1950s to train for spaceflight.

Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World – Women in Science celebrates the achievements of the intrepid women who have paved the way for the next generation of female engineers, biologists, mathematicians, doctors, astronauts, physicists, and more! 

25 Women Who Thought of it First – Discover 25 women who were trailblazers in science, technology, architecture, engineering, and more. Learn about some of the women who defied expectations and introduced the world to new ideas and creations big and small.

Women Aviators: 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights, Daring Missions, and Record-Setting Journeys – 6 women aviators who sought out and met challenges both in the sky and on the ground, where some still questioned their abilities. Read about barnstormers like Bessie Coleman and racers like Louise Thaden, who bested Amelia Earhart and Pancho Barnes to win the 1929 Women’s Air Derby, sometimes called the Powder Puff Derby.

We once had a librarian tell my kids that they wouldn’t like a book because it was all about facts and numbers. I made sure to let her know I don’t limit what books my kids can borrow from the library, nor what they read. We don’t limit knowledge here.

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Our 10 Favorite Book + Movie Combos

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I am a read the book, and then maybe watch the movie kind of gal. I always fear the movie going terribly wrong and then I’m unset and sad about how the book got butchered. But, my kids enjoy it, and sometimes knowing that there is a movie at the end of a book to keep them interested and going.

Our 10 Favorite Book + Movie Combos

Our 10 Favorite Book + Movie Combos

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Charlotte’s Web – This was one of our favorite book and movie combos. Plus now there are two movies you can watch and compare with.

Stuart Little – We are just “reading” this audio book right now, and I cannot wait to watch the movies with my kids, I watched them when they first came out.

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Alice in Wonderland – With those wonderfully eccentric characters the Queen of Hearts, Tweedledum, and Tweedledee, the Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, the Mad Hatter this is a fun book and movie combo.

James and the Giant Peach – Life is no fun, until James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree and strange things start to happen.

The Jungle Book – Mowgli, lost in the deep jungle as a child, is adopted into a family of wolves.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change . . . and a great sacrifice. This is quite the adventure.

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Mr. Popper’s Penguins – The adventures of a house painter and his brood of high-stepping penguins have delighted children for generations. Such a great movie!

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory –  only five lucky children will be allowed inside the factory, follow to see what happens. Plus now there are two movies you can watch and compare with.

The Wizard of Oz – This was one of our first audiobooks, and a favorite still. “There is no place like home.”

A Wrinkle in Time – My 10 yr old listened to this audio book on her own because she wanted to watch the movie on Netflix. (She gets it from her Momma.)

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The Best Library Books About Going to the Library

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Books are some of our favorite things in the Mullen household. Trips to the library are weekly or multiple times per week, sometimes even multiple trips in one day. On our trips we have found the best books on going to the library for kids. The best books are the fun ones that keep your kids guessing on what is going to happen next.

The Best Library Books About Going to the Library

The Best Library Books About Going to the Library

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Library Lion – Miss Merriweather is very particular about rules in the library. No running allowed. And you must be quiet. But when a lion comes to the library one day, no one is sure what to do. 

Library Mouse – Sam is a mouse who lives in a library. He loves to read all kinds of books and he learns that he also loves to make up and write his own stories. There are a number of these awesome books from Sam to check out.

The Library Gingerbread Man – The Gingerbread Man, who lives at 398.2 on the library shelves, decides to escape and leads the librarian on a chase throughout the library.

The Berenstain Bears: We Love the Library – The Berenstain Bears are always checking out books about outer space, medieval knights, cute animals, and more at the library. But then one day, the family finds out the library may be shutting down forever. 

Lost in the Library – The two lion statues that faithfully guard the New York Public Library. When Patience goes missing, Fortitude realizes the secret to Patience’s disappearance may be within the Library itself.

No T. Rex in the Library – It’s a quiet morning in the library until a little girl roars out of control! Tess resigns herself to a time-out, but finds that she must be the one who has to maintain order when T. Rex leaps from the pages of a book into real life.

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Library Day – One day, a young boy visits the library for the very first time. While he’s there he listens to stories, reads books and magazines, and learns that there are also movies, crafts, chess, and puppet shows—something for everyone!

The Library Book – What’s the best way to cure a gloomy day? A trip to the library!

The Secret Life of Library Books – Mrs. Davis, the Robinson Elementary School librarian, always looked forward to seeing her books after the summer break. But who sent the stack of letters she found on her desk?

Library Lily – Lily loves to read. She is fascinated by the stories in her books, and reads wherever she goes―through summer, autumn, winter, and spring. But one day, Lily meets a girl who hates reading.

This was one of our favorite read alouds/audiobooks of the year, a bonus book that wasn’t in our curriculum:

Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library – When Kyle learns that the world’s most famous game maker, Luigi Lemoncello, has designed the town’s new library and is having an invitation-only lock-in on opening night, he’s determined to be there!

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