A Quiet Simple Life with Sallie Borrink
Cozy and Simple Living, Homeschooling, Faith, Homemaking, & Books
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It’s going to be a very hot and humid July week. We’re planning on enjoying lots of at-home activities to beat the heat. Here is a peak around our cozy home! Caroline and I haven’t done much poetry in our homeschool so that’s something we’re doing this summer. I bought Anna Growing Up on the […]
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Two Little Gardeners is a Little Golden Book we discovered when Caroline was quite young. You can tell from the fact that our beloved copy has no trademark gold covering left on the spine that it was, shall we say, well read and well loved. Truthfully, this was one of her favorite books for some […]
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I don’t remember where I first discovered Sleep Tight Farm, but I knew it was a story I wanted to add to my picture book library and share with my readers. Written by Eugenie Doyle and illustrated by Becca Stadtlander, it is about a farm family preparing for winter. It is cozy in so many […]
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The Year at Maple Hill Farm combines two fun themes – farm animals and going through a calendar year. The combined talents and distinctive style of Alice and Martin Provenson shine through in this wonderfully illustrated picture book. There is lots of cozy in The Year at Maple Hill Farm so it was easy to […]
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Antler, Bear, Canoe – A Northwoods Alphabet Year by Betsy Bowen includes so many things I love in a picture book including the theme, the subject, and the illustrations. This is one of those books I purchased as soon as I saw it on the bookshelf. (Betsy Bowen also wrote a companion book called Gathering […]
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Gathering – A Northwoods Counting Book by Betsy Bowen is the companion book to another favorite cozy book I’ve already shared, Antler, Bear, Canoe – A Northwoods Alphabet Year. Each of the books take the reader through both a journey in the northwoods and a journey through the calendar year. Gathering – A Northwoods Counting […]
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Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder is a look at her husband’s childhood in upstate New York. It covers the time period of when he was a boy just beginning to mature into young manhood. Of all the Little House books, Farmer Boy is perhaps the coziest as it shares so much about family life, […]
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Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall and illustrated by Barbara Cooney is a perfect cozy book for any time of the of year. Winner of the Caldecott Medal for Best Children’s Picture Book in 1980, Ox-Cart Man is a timeless tale that truly should be read aloud to every child. Ox-Cart Man The story starts in […]
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I happened across A Family for Old Mill Farm at a children’s bookstore a few years ago. I immediately bought it because it spoke to me. We were also looking for a house and I could relate to the search this family was going through in the picture book. We didn’t end up buying a […]
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The fall book Apple Farmer Annie by Monica Wellington is the delightful story of Annie, a young woman who owns an apple farm and sells her products at the farmer’s market in the city. The book has bright, colorful illustrations that appeal to younger children as well as simple text making it an ideal read […]
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We happened across Market Day at the library one day while perusing the shelves for our pile of books to bring home. It was a book we all instantly liked and have read many times since. I didn’t realize it was a sequel to another favorite in our home, The Milkman, until I read the Amazon […]
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A few of my favorite books growing up were Lois Lenski chapter books. Lenski was a prolific writer and I read many of her books over the years. She has such a distinctive approach both in terms of her writing style as well as her illustrations. Two of my favorite children’s novels were Strawberry Girl […]
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Little ones seem to all go through a barn phase. I think it’s the combination of the red color and the cute animals. For whatever reason, it’s a predictable stage when you need to find barn-themed books for kids. These first two books about barns have been Caroline’s two favorite books for about three weeks […]
