My 7-year-old son has getting down for the last half hour on the Wii with Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. He even invited me to play, and I had a 5-Star performance of “California Dreamin.’” Score!! When I was on my Alvin and the Chipmunks Chipwrecked press junket, there was a product room showcasing all…
Category Archives: Gift Ideas
The Family Storybook Treasury, with giveaway
I love storybook collections that bring well-loved stories together in one big volume, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has a wonderful new such collection, The Family Storybook Treasury. It includes eight complete picture books, featuring favorites such as Curious George and Lyle the crocodile, poems, and a bonus audio CD. If you’re looking for a gift…
Real, with Giveaway
Real – The Book from David Malcolm on Vimeo. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. This book exemplifies that, with a half page picture accompanied by a two columns of text. This video is worth much more than that, and trumps anything that I could say about Shelley Malcom and Terilee…
Holiday Picture Books, and Giveaway Link
The holidays are fast approaching, and about this time every year, I love to pull our always-growing collection of winter and holiday-themed books off the shelf in my daughter’s room. For the next month or so, they will inhabit various baskets in our living room, always at the ready for a reading by the fire…
Caillou Playsets Review and Giveaway
When my children were early elementary age, we spent a year living in France, which is when we first became acquainted with Caillou, the charming preschooler with the big imagination. Although my kids felt they were officially “too big” for him, they still liked to watch his antics, framed always by Mamie (grandma in French)…
Bloodlines: A Time for War
Seeing “blood” and “war” in the title of a book immediately makes me think that it’s not the sort of book I’d want to read. But in this case, “Bloodlines” refers to the series that look at the different military careers of one particular fictitious family. A Time for War tells the story of PFC…
The Unexpected Miss Bennet, Review and Giveaway
Several years ago, I decided to read Jane Austen’s novels. Over the course of a year, I enjoyed them all. Like many Austen fans, I have a special fondness for the Bennet sisters from Pride and Prejudice. Since first reading this classic, I have reread the book and experienced the story through the BBC movie…
Richard Scarry’s Busytown Town Hall Deluxe Playset Giveaway
Trends come and go, and as a child of the 80s, I’m frequently finding that many of the characters, toys, and shows that I enjoyed as a child are coming back now, just in time for those in my generation to want to reminisce by turning our own young kids onto them. But, then there…
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