Fantastic Book About Trees
The Tree Book for Kids And Their Grown-Ups is everything you have ever wanted to know about the trees you walk by every day, broken down by buds, leaves, bark, flowers, and seed. A perfect kid birthday...
View ArticleA Super Lovely Picture Book You Might Not Know About
A couple of nights ago, I read Weezer Changes the World aloud to my four year-old. The ten year-old listened in because it’s one of his favorite books (and mine). Weezer is just a dog until lightning...
View ArticleA Children’s Book A Day
Early every morning when I make my way to the computer at the kitchen counter where I work, I go on Twitter pretty much straight away. I have this great practice, which is to look out the window at the...
View ArticleSummer Reading Help
I just discovered the blog Nerd Alert, which has great book reviews written by Phoebe, the middle-school aged daughter of Jenny and Andy of Dinner a Love Story. It’s fantastic—the selections are...
View ArticleSweet Girl Book
My mother-in-law gave my daughter this sweet book last year and we are just now reading it. The book’s namesake, a 100 year-old doll named Hitty, tells her life story up to this point — and boy has she...
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A New Bedtime Book
Our friends’ daughter just bought this book, The Day the Crayons Quit, at her school book fair. I saw it when we went to their house for dinner last night, and I liked it so much that I sat there...
View ArticlePicture Books in the Orchard
One Saturday morning I couldn’t easily stand up after the morning cartoons ended. I was four. I announced to my mother that I had appendicitis. She said something along the lines of “Nonsense.” But I...
View ArticleTrixie Belden
Pilar’s post about collecting vintage Hardy Boys books inspired me to seek out stories of my favorite childhood detective, Trixie Belden. Score! I found a bunch on eBay and Etsy featuring this scrappy...
View ArticleJacob’s New Dress (Plus Giveaway)
Having had what you might call a “pink boy” when he was small (i.e. long hair, love of fairies, disinterest in vehicles and at times the penchant to wear a dress), I wish that Jacob’s New Dress had...
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Postcard From Chennai
As a child, I did not fly anywhere except to visit India, the country from where my parents emigrated to the United States. Air travel in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s was inconvenient and expensive...
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