Plushies and Online Safety

Plushies and Online Safety

My daughters love making all kinds of dolls. So they’re loving all the great ideas in this book, with many designs or features in whatever approach of look they’d like. The introduction features lots of help so they can learn how to do basic stitches (by...
Multicultural Kids’ Book Picks

Multicultural Kids’ Book Picks

We’re in This Together: Leo’s Lunch Box U.S. Senator (and Pastor) Raphael Warnock wrote this heartening story based on the story of the loaves and fishes in the New Testament, yet here, it revolves around a boy at a poor school, filled with hungry...
Brave Book Review

Brave Book Review

My family lives with many Native Americans in our area, so it’s a common site for my kids to notice that the boys (and men) generally grow their hair long, and often wear it with a single braid down the backs. It looks nice and is widely respected here. But...
Fantastic New Books About Motherhood

Fantastic New Books About Motherhood

The Baby Who Stayed Awake Forever Well, this is one book that many of us parents can deeply, profoundly, and intensely relate to, especially those of us with beautiful, cheery, and happy babies with absolutely brutal internal clocks. I love this delightful book,...
Easter Books from Roald Dahl

Easter Books from Roald Dahl

This is an engaging and fun-to-read board book about an easter egg hunt and different things you can do with your chocolate eggs, like throwing “your eggs around and make a licky sticky mess!” The illustrations are fun, with the idiosyncratic style used in...
It’s Not Easy Being a Leprechaun

It’s Not Easy Being a Leprechaun

My kids love for me to read (and re-read) this magical storybook! It’s a perfect picture book for St. Patrick’s Day, yet is fun and appropriate any time of the year. This is a colorful, engaging story starring a squirrel — who is also a leprechaun!...