When I first started this blog, I wrote my list of favorite picture books for young children [https://www.theartofsimple.net/twaddle-free-books-for-preschoolers-my-top-10-favorites/] because my oldest was three. But I blinked, and just like that, she’s now nine and a half. My, how time flies. I love age nine, but it’s totally pulled the rug out from under me—I feel like out of nowhere, my girl is on that cusp heading in to a (very) young adulthood, while still keeping a toe or three into littl