Welcome back to Literacy Musing Mondays, your stop for all things, related to family-friendly literature. We love book reviews and posts about learning, writing, blogging, and life-long learning. We also welcome devotional blog posts.

I attended the Highlights Foundation Summer Camp at the Barn last week and learned so much about children’s book writing. I hope you check out my posts from last week:

• Wordless Wednesday: Highlights Foundation Discoveries

• Views From the Highlights Foundation Lodge : Kathryn Erskine

I will share other posts about what I learned during this wonderful week from my mentors and the faculty so be sure to check back!

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Other Linkup News

We are looking for guest posters to write for Literacy Musing Mondays for August and September. This opportunity helps you grow your blog readership because you guest post will be seen across four different blogs. Plus, you can run our linkup on your blog the week you guest post.

To guest post you simply write a 300 to 400 word post about anything related to your love for reading, writing, or blogging.  You could also write a post giving parents tips on how to encourage their tweens or teens to read more.

If you are interest contact Mary at marykatbpcsc45 @ gmail (dot) com.

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Now on to our weekly Literacy Musing Monday’s linkup where we link up posts about what inspires you in reading, writing, blogging, and even share our written Bible devotions.

First,  let’s

 

 

Leslie@Forever Joyful  Blog/Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest/Google+Gayl@Words, Photos, and ArtBlog/Facebook/Instagram/Pinterest/TwitterMary @Maryandering Creatively  Blog/Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest/ Instagram/Google+Tami @ThisMomsDelight    (on summer break) 🙂Blog/Facebook/Pinterest/Twitter/Instagram/Google Plus 

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Now let’s celebrate family-friendly reading and learning.

Last Week’s Top Clicked Post!

Raising Readers: 5 Must-Have Books for Parents

by Carolyn at HouseFullofBookworms

 

I wholeheartedly concur with her list. She features  a classic along with one that I am going to add to my Amazon wishlist. Be sure to check it out.

My Favorite Post of the Week:

Meet Kathleen Burkinshaw–Debut Middle Grade Author

Ok, Leslie beat me and  is featuring Carol’s great review and interview too, but I have a dual reason for my feature. I met Carol in person at the Highlights Foundation Workshop. I really want everyone to check out her wonderful review blog. She is THE Carol Baldwin after all. Wink, wink. Carol will understand the punchline for this statement.  I also plan to read this book as well. What an excellent interview!

 Remember to check out other hosts’  blogs to see which posts from last week were their favorites. Want to be the next to be featured! Just link up a post and if you are read the most, we will feature you. Also please make sure you link back to us so others will know about our link up and join in. We try to make it worth your while to linkup with us by promoting your posts across our social media networks. We also pin our most clicked and featured posts to our Pinterest Board each week!

Follow Mary Hill’s board Literacy Musing Mondays Linkup on Pinterest.  

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Now, it is time to link up to the Literacy Musing Mondays hop! You will have until Saturdays at 12 p.m. now to link up! So come back often.

Linkup Rules:

1. Include a link back or the blog hop button linked to this hop on your posts.
2. Link up the urls to your posts not to your blog.
3. Please remember this is a family-friendly linkup. Although we believe in the right for adults to read whatever they want to read, we prefer to read wholesome posts that feature literature that edify and uplift families. We reserve the right to delete any posts that are not family friendly. We love all kinds of literature and genres including family-friendly inspirational romances, fantasy, or science fiction. We do not welcome posts featuring books or writing with excessive violence, sexual content, or cursing. These posts will be deleted.
4. We also want to be loving community by supporting one another. Please make a point to do this this week! Visit the two posts before yours and at least one other blogger’s post of your choice! I want to see lots of clicks on everyone’s posts. Remember it is also nice to follow them on their social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
5. Follow your hosts and co-hosts on their social media.
6. Tweet about the link up too.

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Let’s Celebrate Reading and Learning together this week at Literacy Musing Mondays!

Linking up with blog hops on my Linkup Parties page.