Snack & Read LIVE with Simon Kids on Facebook: September 2020

Sit down with your kids and a snack, and tune in to watch Patricia Lakin read aloud from her book Max & Mo Go Apple Picking and do a simple, fun at-home activity on Facebook Live.

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September 16, 2020 @ 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Organized by: Simon Kids
Joining Link: https://www.facebook.com/Simonkids/

About the Author:

Patricia Lakin, a former elementary school teacher and an award-winning author, has written more than fifty published works. Her books, both fiction and nonfiction, span multiple age groups—from toddlers to middle graders. Patricia lives in New York City with her husband, Lee Koenigsberg. They have two grown sons, Aaron and Benjahmin. When not reading, writing, or researching, she can be found traveling with Lee to far-off places in the world.

About the Book:

Max and Mo are tired of eating corn. Luckily the big ones — the kids — just went apple picking. Everyone knows you can make applesauce with apples, but is there anything else you can make with them?


Sit down with your kids and a snack, and tune in to watch Laura Gehl read aloud from her book Cat Has a Plan and do a simple, fun at-home activity on Facebook Live.

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September 23, 2020 @ 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Organized by: Simon Kids
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About the Author:

Laura Gehl is the author of One Big Pair of Underwear and Ghost Wants to Eat. She lives with her husband and their four kids in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Visit her online at LauraGehl.com.

About the Author:

Cat has a plan. Dog has a plan. May the best plan win in this Ready-to-Go! Ready-to-Read from Laura Gehl, author of the popular One Big Pair of Underwear!

Perfect for kids at the beginning of their reading journeys, Cat Has a Plan was written for children who have learned the alphabet and are ready to start reading! And what better way to get kids excited than with a hilarious story with words they can read on their own?

Each Ready-to-Go! Ready-to-Read includes a note to parents explaining what their child can expect, a guide at the beginning for readers to become familiar with the words they will encounter in the story, and reading comprehension questions at the end. Each Ready-to-Go! story contains about 100 words and features sight words, rhyming words, and repetition to help children reinforce their new reading skills.


Sit down with your kids and a snack, and tune in to watch Melissa Wiley read aloud from her book, “Inch and Rolly” and do a simple, fun at-home activity on Facebook Live.

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September 30, 2020 @ 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Organized by: Simon Kids
Join Here: https://www.facebook.com/Simonkids/

About the Author:

Melissa Wiley is the author of the Inch and Roly series and other books for children, including The Prairie Thief and two series of novels about the ancestors of Laura Ingalls Wilder. She lives in San Diego with her comic-book-writing husband, a half dozen kids, and about 3,000 books. She blogs about her family’s reading life at Here in the Bonny Glen: MelissaWiley.com/blog.

About the Book:

What’s that in the grass? Help Inch and Roly solve an outdoor mystery in this sunshiny Level 1 Ready-to-Read story.

Roly sees something in the grass, but she does not know what it is. Roly, Inch, Dragonfly, and Beetle try to identify it. Is it a tunnel, or perhaps a hill? Maybe it is a snake! Each of the bugs thinks something different based on their different perspectives. In the end, after much panic, Roly identifies the mysterious object, and all the bugs receive a refreshing surprise!

Perfect for enjoying on a sunny day, this Level 1 Ready-to-Read tale is a delightful addition to an adorable series that stars familiar backyard and playground insects and is ideal for beginning readers.

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