FAMILY TRAVEL
Destination: Colorado
Book: Best Hikes With Kids Colorado (2012) by Maureen Keilty
By Jennifer Close
With the snow (mostly) gone around Denver, we have been hiking together as a family just about every Sunday.
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The World in Your Kid’s Computer
Family Travel
Destination: The World
Tool: The International Children’s Digital Library
By Jennifer Close
It is important for me to introduce my children to new places, ways of thinking, cultures and people. It helps broaden their horizons and make them aware of the world around them. I introduce them to things that are different from what we are used to through travel and experiences. Even our recent move from Pensacola, Florida to Denver, Colorado was an eye opening experience from the flat lands of Kansas to the cold weather gear people wear in Denver to other little things we saw along the way. Continue reading The World in Your Kid’s Computer
Mystery Tours Denver
NOTE: Today launches two weeks of mystery novels and other scary things–leading up to Halloween. Don’t be afraid –plunge right in and enjoy the murder and mayhem!
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The Perfect Suspect (A Catherine McLeod Mystery)Destination: Colorado
Book: The Perfect Suspect: A Catherine McLeod Mystery by Margaret Coel (NEW September 2011)
I will never look at Denver in the same way, and newspaper reporters who read Margaret Coel‘s Catherine McLeod books may reconsider their careers. I heard Coel speak about her Wind River Series–set on an Arapaho reservation–at the Tucson Festival of Books last year. The fact that the author is an expert in the culture of the Arapaho fascinated me, and her crime-solving combo of Catholic priest and female American Indian lawyer sounded like a winner. However, when I read The Spider’s Web, it did not hold my interest and I did not review it here. (In fairness, I should let you know that book won a Colorado Book Award for 2011.) Continue reading Mystery Tours Denver