Sports quotes to share with your children

Share these great inspirational sport quotes with the young athlete in your life, curated by the Novelso review team.

• “Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back … play for her.” – Mia Hamm

• “It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

• “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” – Wayne Gretzky

• “Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.” – Bethany Hamilton

• “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it.” – Michael Jordan

• “You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment.” – Aly Raisman

• “You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps

• “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth

• “Scientists have proven that it’s impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don’t listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.” – Carl Lewis

• “It doesn’t matter what your background is or where you came from. If you have dreams and goals, that’s all that matters.” – Serena Williams

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Great reads to share with the children now

If you are looking for a few good stories to read to your children now, then why not pick up a few of these curated by the Novelso review team and enjoy your time together.

Book! by Kristine O'Connell George

This charmingly illustrated board book celebrates books! See what a book can mean to a young child as he takes his favorite book with him everywhere. You'll recognize scenes from your own home in this joyous story of a boy and his book.

I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen

A bear almost gives up his search for his missing hat until he remembers something important.

Eating the Rainbow: A Colorful Food Book by Rena D. Grossman

Good eating habits start early. In this board book filled with colorful photos of children enjoying a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, readers will find a great introduction to healthy eating.

Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett

This looks like an ordinary box full of ordinary yarn. But it turns out it isn't.

Lullaby Moon by Rosie Reeve

Follow mother mouse and her baby through their day until it is time to say good night. The illustrations in this book are filled with cozy moments perfect for you and your baby to end your busy day together. This is a good story for teaching children the sequence of events and that we all must rest.

The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt

Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: We quit!

Little Owl's Night by Divya Srinivasan

Do you live with a night owl who struggles with the idea of having to go to bed? Little Owl enjoys his life in the woods at night alongside his friends, as insects hum and frogs croak, but he wonders what happens during the daytime while he sleeps. Through this book, children will enjoy learning about what happens after dark when they are tucked into bed.

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Best Healthy Eating Quotes For You and Your Kids

These quotes are ones to live by, ones that society should live by, and ones you should teach your children to live by, curated by the Novelso review team,. Let’s raise healthy kids and be healthy ourselves!!

“Every time you eat or drink, you are either feeding disease or fighting it.” ~ Heather Morgan

“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” ~Ann Wigmore

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” ~Hippocrates

“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” ~Thomas Edison

“The best doctor gives the least medicine.” ~Benjamin Franklin

“You are what you eat, so don’t be fast, cheap, easy, or fake.” ~Unknown

“Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.” ~Astrid Alauda

“Even in this high-tech age, the low-tech plant continues to be the key to nutrition and health.” ~Jack Weatherford

“A healthy outside starts from the inside.” ~Robert Urich

“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.” ~Socrates

“Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.” ~Anne M. Mulcahy

“Came from a plant, eat it; was made in a plant, don’t.” ~Michael Pollan

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.“ ~La Rochefoucald

“He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors.” ~Chinese Proverb

“Every time you eat is an opportunity to nourish your body.” ~Unknown

“There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition.” ~Pierre Dukan

“Health is a relationship between you and your body” ~Terri Guillemets

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Great kids books to read now

If you are looking for a few great children’s books to read to your kids, then why not pick up a few of these curated by the Novelso review team?

Noisy Nora by Rosemary Wells

How noisy can one child be?! Nora can be quite noisy, but it's when she is quiet that her absence is noticed. This is a terrific book to reassure every child that, noisy or quiet, he is loved.

Time for Bed by Mem Fox

Gentle watercolors and repetitive rhymes make this collection of animal babies and their parents settling down for the night a perfect way to ease children into sleep at the end of a busy day.

Falling Up by Shel Silverstein

Poor Screamin' Millie is just one of the unforgettable characters in this wondrous new book of poems and drawings by the creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic. Here you will also meet Allison Beals and her twenty-five eels; Danny O'Dare, the dancin' bear; the Human Balloon; and Headphone Harold.

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox

One little boy with a great big name, one elderly lady with a long name, and one wonderful friendship until Miss Nancy starts to forget. It is Wilfrid who helps bring back Miss Nancy's memories in this loving story about friendship and a kindness that has no boundaries.

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New Swoon-Worthy Teen Romance Books

If you’re a YA fan, romance is more alive than ever with these magical love stories curated by the Novelso review team. 

Now & When

by Sara Bennett Wealer

Something strange is happening with Skyler Finch’s phone: it’s sending her notifications from the near-future, in which she’s apparently dating Obsessed-with-the-Sound-of-His-Own-Voice Truman Alexander. Skyler can’t abide such a fate, so she sets about changing the present, where reality continues to shift in unpredictable ways — including (could it be?) her opinion of Truman.

A Sky Painted Gold

by Laura Wood

Perfect for fans of The Great Gatsby (though with a more hopeful ending), A Sky Painted Gold takes place in the summer of 1929, when 17-year-old Lou, an aspiring writer, gets pulled into the lavish lifestyle of the Cardew siblings, Caitlin and Robert. Glamorous, moonlit parties fill Lou’s nights, and thoughts of Robert fill her days. But is a high-society life what Lou actually wants?

Again Again

by E. Lockhart

The bestselling author of Genuine Fraud and We Were Liars returns with a love story that spans the multiverse. Adelaide Buchwald is spending her summer dog-walking, reeling from a breakup, and hoping against hope that her brother doesn’t relapse. When she meets Jack and starts to fall in love, every choice Adelaide makes splits into a new universe, each with its own outcome, making real the “what ifs” of life.

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Best Books for Kids

Looking for a good read for your children? Then dive into our list of the best children's books of all time, curated by the Novelso review team.

1. Dory Fantasmagory by Abby Hanlon

Dory has a hard time keeping her fantasy life to herself—her imaginary best friend (a monster named Mary), imaginary enemy (Mrs. Gobble Gracker) and fairy godmother (Mr. Nugy, who she calls on a banana) are as real as her family and school pals. This delightful, wildly creative five-volume series gets into the wonders and uncertainties that course through every young mind: These books will speak to your child. It doesn’t hurt that you’ll get as much out of Dory’s adventures as your little one. Ages 5-10

2. Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin

Every child knows that dragons love tacos—and can’t deal with spicy salsa. This goofy, playful, imaginative book has become a contemporary classic, and surefire hit at storytime. When you’re done with this, be sure to get the even weirder Dragons Love Tacos 2—because in some parallel universe, dragons love diapers! Ages 7 and under

3. The Book with No Pictures by B. J. Novak

How can a picture book with no pictures be any fun? Easy. The rules of every children’s book is: The grownup has to read every word on the page–every word–no matter how ridiculous. In this book, the words get really ridiculous to the complete delight of your child. The Book with No Pictures brings new meaning to the phrase “Ba-DOONGY FACE!” Ages 7 and under

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Quotes to celebrate family

Looking for some funny and sweet words to celebrate your family, then enjoy these curated by the Novelso review team.

“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox

“Family life contributes immensely to an individual’s happiness. Only in a happy home life can complete contentment be found.” – Dorothea S. Koppliln

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.” – Winston Churchill

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.” – Lisa Weed

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” – Mother Teresa

“Family is family.” – Linda Linney

“Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.” – Irina Shayk

“If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.” – Ted Kennedy

“Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.” – Shailene Woodley

“Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing.” – Unknown

“Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they’re driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.” – Jenna Morasca

“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” – Peter Buffett

“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching — they are your family.” – Jim Butcher

“The more you’re loving and understanding, the more your kids will sing.” – Maxime Lagacé

“Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.” – Albert Einstein

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Beautiful words on the importance of family

Our families are everything. Here at the Novelso review team we have rounded up the very best in beautiful words on the importance of family.

"If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct."

-Letty Cottin Pogrebin

"Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future."

-Gail Lumet Buckley

"Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance."

-Milton R. Saperstein

"Family life is full of major and minor crises - the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce - and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul."

-Thomas Moore

"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."

-Virginia Satir

"Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter."

-Brad Henry

"In each family a story is playing itself out, and each family's story embodies its hope and despair."

-Auguste Napier

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."

-Alex Haley

"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?"

-Elbert Hubbard

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Books to read together as a family

If you are looking for some great reads the entire family can enjoy together, look no further than these books curated by the Novelso review team.

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Where the Sidewalk Ends is one of Shel Silverstein's beloved poetry collections, it’s an excellent choice for introducing your children to poetry as it's full of light-hearted poems that address many common childhood issues like dreaming, messiness, and baby brothers. These poems will be sure to delight your child. Those who are a little older and more mature will be able to appreciate the true depth of the themes covered, as well as Silverstein's masterful use of literary devices.

Sideways Stories from Wayside School

The first of Louis Sachar's series of books about the Wayside School is full of absurd, silly short stories about the students’ antics and teachers of Sachar's fictional elementary school. The stories are undeniably hysterical, whether you're an adult or an elementary school student. For older children, you can use the book to introduce the concepts of satire and parody, which can be frequently found in the collection.

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Three science novels for National Science Day

At Novelso we are big supporters of national science day, which is fast approaching later this month. Here are our top three picks of Novelso science novels to get your youngsters in the mood to explore science and the world around them:

One. The same stuff as stars. Katherine Patterson.

This book, as the name suggests, has some scientific elements to it. It’s quite incredible and thought-provoking. This book explores a powerful thought by taking that thought and putting it into a human body. And a brilliant book.

Two. The diary of curious Cuthbert. Jack Chanoller.

Jack Chanoller is one of the most skilled scientific communicators. He has a profound knowledge of science and a way with words that make science accessible for children to understand. This book is a combination of fantastic storytelling and a genuine love for science.

Three. The boy who harnessed the wind. William Kamkwamba

14-year-old William’s family have ordered him to leave school and work on the farm as they could no longer afford the fees. This is the tale of how he went on to make a difference and brought hope to his family and the nation. Malawi is a country battling AIDS, and 2002 brought the harshest famine in decades. The majority of the population, like the Williams family, were farmers. Fascinated by technology and the books he borrowed from the library, he went on to build his windmill from little more than Scrap and bicycle parts and changed the lives and fortunes of his family and village.

These are our top reviewed audiobooks from Novelso for children to learn about science and the world around us. Visit Novelso today for more.

Smart and Thought-Provoking Fiction eBooks

Reading fiction eBooks can help you develop critical thinking. It also allows readers to develop a theory of mind and empathy. Here are the best fiction eBooks that will strengthen your cognitive muscles.

Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami

In this eBook, Mieko talks about three women who have different experiences when they try to alter their body formation. Makiko decides to undergo a breast enhancement procedure. She has always been obsessed with perfecting her image before the public. Ten years later, she regrets making that decision, and we learn a very important lesson about trying to change your God-given body features.

Red Pill - Hari Kunzru

Kunzru is a master of writing postmodern anxiety fictional novels. This novel is about a writer who gets mixed up in government conspiracies. He thinks he is in a world of unreality filled with puzzles that he has to solve to survive. The title of this eBook was taken from a scene in The Matrix where Neo was offered to choose between the blue and red pill.

Had I Known - B. Ehrenreich

Originally published on March 24, 2020, this novel talks about Ehrenreich’s newspaper and magazine that comprises several topics. These topics include cults, welfare programs, and health food crazes. Ehrenreich’s prophetic eye for corrupted systems is also featured in this novel. You can never go wrong when you chose to build your reading library with this novel.

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Cute Family Quotes and Sayings

No doubt any of us could come up with numerous sayings about the meaning and significance of family. Here are some sweet and funny family quotes to share with those special around you.

• Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can't.

• The bigger your family, the bigger your problems.

• Family is like that annoying itch you can't scratch.

• Caller ID was invented for family screening.

• Family is a blessing. Just keep saying that when you are irritated by something a family member does or says.

• Once a mother, always a mother.

• Family knows your flaws but loves you, anyway.

• Love your family as you love yourself.

• Family makes you who you are and who you aren't.

• God wouldn't have given you a family if He didn't think you needed it.

• Where there is family, there is love.

• Family is the heart of a home.

• Love starts with family.

• A family takes care of their own.

• The strength of family isn't determined by the number of members, but rather by the amount of love given and received.

• Family is forever.

• A hug from family lasts a lifetime.

• Whoever said, "Love 'em then leave 'em" wasn't talking about family.

• Life begins with family and ends with family.

• A mother's love never wanes.

• You can't control what your family says, but you can control how much you listen and how you react to it.

• The love of family is like no other.

• A family who disagrees, cares.

• You inherited a piece of everyone in your family. If you insult them, you insult yourself.

• Family gives you the roots to stand tall and strong.

• Tears flow from the eyes of loved ones the day you're born, and the day you pass.

• In a family, the sadness of one is the sadness of all.

• Family love is never broken.

• It only takes two to make a family.

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Positive Affirmations From Popular Disney Movies

Add a little splash to your day with these positive affirmations from some of the best Disney films.

1. “You control your destiny, you don’t need magic to do it.” – Merida, “Brave”

2. “The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.” – The Emperor, “Mulan”

3. “A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.” – Zeus, “Hercules”

4. “The things that make me different are the things that make me, me.” – Piglet, “Winnie the Pooh: Sing a Song with Pooh Bear”

5. “Don’t just fly, soar.” – Dumbo, “Dumbo”

6. “The rest of the world may follow the rules, but I must follow my heart.” – Ernesto, “Coco”

7. “Just keep swimming.” – Dory, “Finding Nemo”

8. “Always let your conscience be your guide.” – Jiminy Cricket, “Pinocchio”

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