If you’ve turned your television on in the last few weeks, odds are you’ve seen a trailer for the movie HOP, opening in theaters nationwide 4/1. With Easter fast approaching, the image of that seriously adorable bunny is appealing to both kids and adults alike, and I know that I’m one parent who has been…
Category Archives: Gift Ideas
An Apple A Day
We all do it- there’s none among us who hasn’t responded in a conversation with a well-known saying that’s meant to convey a common meaning (and a potentially overused or trite one at that). I know I’m guilty. In talking about doing all the “right” things in the lead up to naptime, yet still struggling…
Quiet Bunny’s Many Colors
Spring will soon be here, and if you look at library shelves in the children’s picture book section, you will most likely notice lots of bunnies adorning the covers. With Lisa McCue’s Quiet Bunny’s Many Colors, children will enjoy a vibrantly colorful story with a sweet and gentle heart. Looking at the newly blossomed spring…
A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood, review and giveaway
A Double Life: Discovering Motherhood by Lisa Catherine Harper is a wonderful book. With absolutely beautiful prose, Harper discusses the ups — such as sharing the news with others, seeing the first ultrasound, feeling the first movement, and first time she saw her baby — with the downs, such as debilitating sciatica, sleeplessness, food aversions,…
Your Pinkie is More Powerful Than Your Thumb
You know the type of book that you can read in spurts, a couple pages here and there? The type that causes you to burst out with a “Really?!” more than once? The book that you load up with sticky note tabs or dog-eared corners to remind you to read portions aloud to your spouse…
Operation Yes
Operation Yes is a middle grade novel about a group of 6th graders who work together to solve a probelm. In this story, there are actually several problems that the kids end up trying to solve and they come together quite nicely. The cast of characters are a nice mix of the usual suspects: over-achievers,…
Crinkle Animals Baby Books
Oh how I love a good baby book. No, not a book full of day by day pictures of your precious bundle of joy, and locks of hair, and christening invitations. I mean a book made for babies. I’ve proclaimed again and again my love for the sturdy board book (I know, I need to…
Blackboard Books
Back in the day, did you once pride yourself on being a star student? Did you ace your exams and gleefully hang your report card up on the refrigerator for all to see? Have the years gone by and taken with them a whole bunch of that knowledge that you had once amassed? Do you…
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