Somehow, in our “school at home” this summer, we missed reading
any interesting picture books about Europe. We did an activity
together and learned about the geography and countries via an
atlas and a puzzle, but we didn’t read picture books about it.
Do you have any suggestions for fiction or interesting
nonfiction about Europe? Raisin has decided that Italy is his
favorite country because it’s shaped like a boot. On the other
hand, we moved on to Africa. Our study focused on learning the
basic geography of the continent as well as general habitats
(i.e., dry desert, Savannahs, and rain forests) and the animals
in each habitat. Raisin is well into early readers these days
(more about his favorite fiction in the future) and we enjoyed
finding a few nonfiction early readers that he enjoyed about
Africa. The Sahara: The World’s Largest Desert by Jil Fine is a
good example of nonfiction for an early reader. I found a number
of great books about deserts and savannahs, but in general, they
had far too much text fo