After 10 years, 4 kids and a life as a stay-at-home mom, I felt that “The Happiest Baby Guide To Great Sleep” called my name, when I first heard of this book by Harvey Karp, M.D. My 10-year-old son has always been a great sleeper, which turned out perfectly as I had him while in [...]
I have been couponing for ten years, and couponing is now ingrained in my shopping habits. So, when I got a chance to read The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Couponing by Rachel Singer Gorden from MashupMom.com, I was curious to see if I would learn something new from this couponing book. The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Couponing is a [...]
This morning my boys listened to Flightless Goose on their read-along cd twice, then they asked me to read it to them out loud, and finally my eight-year-old son read it by himself. This is to show you that Flightless Goose is a hit at my house, it is a story based on a real [...]
H Is for Haunted House: A Halloween Alphabet Book by Tanya Lee Stone is a fun alphabet book with a great Halloween spin. Descriptive seasonal rhymes along with detailed and colorful illustrations keep young children interested in learning their alphabet without even realizing it. Reading H Is For Haunted House out loud to my sons [...]
Introducing Jimi Hendrix to a new generation unaware of his legendary status takes courage, creativity and a wise approach. Author Gary Golio has successfully taken on the task in Jimi: Sounds Like A Rainbow, and he keeps both reader and audience coming back for more. Before Jimi Hendrix became a superstar, he was a young [...]
Kathryn the Grape: Just Like Magic by Kathryn Cloward and Jody Duhamel is a wonderful story about Kathryn, who has a very special friend. Her special friend Maggie is a butterfly with a magic wand, and her friend gave Kathryn a magic wand too. Kathryn’s magic wand helps her feel safe at night by making [...]
Always Listen to Your Mother by Florence Parry Heide and Roxanne Heide Pierce is a fabulous story about Ernest, a good little boy, who always listens to his mother. Since Ernest always listens to his mother, it also means that he never has any fun. That is until a new family moves in next door [...]
Whenever I find a book that makes my children ask me to read it over and over again, I always get excited. When I find a book that makes them ask questions and learn about the world around them, I get even more excited, and The Beeman by Laurie Krebs does all of the above. [...]
In Fur and Feathers by Janet Halfmann Sophia goes to sleep while counting animals, and in her dream she meets animals that have lost their fur and coverings. After realizing that none of the animals are comfortable in Sophia’s own clothes, which she has let them borrow, she brings out her grandmother’s sewing kit in [...]
In Here, Home, Hope Kaira Rouda explores motherhood, and the life of a married woman, when she wakes up and discovers that she has lost herself somewhere along the way between motherhood and marriage. When you are busy taking care of everyone else, it is easy to forget to take care of yourself. As a [...]
The maze of motherhood, marriage and womanhood has been entangled, detangled and revealed in The Arrivals by Meg Mitchell Moore. Through a vivid, honest and raw depiction of a relationship gone awry between a young husband and wife, Moore succeeds in weaving in complicated family relationships such as that between mothers and daughters, siblings as [...]
