Every book I've reviewed so far, newest first. 13 reviews and counting. The ones with a gold star next to them are the ones I'd press into your hands at a bookstore.
There are books that are absolute classics and have been for decades now. I just reviewed some of them. Goodnight Moon fits that. The Very Hungry Caterpillar fits that. Every bookstore you'll ever go to will have those posted up somewher...
Earlier this year my wife and I got a tip that there were some kitties that needed fostering. Really young ones, not quite bottle baby age but just past that, no mother cat in the picture, just needing to be taken care of and gain some w...
Books like Goodnight Moon and The Very Hungry Caterpillar were the initial inspiration for getting so interested in children's books in the first place. What makes them special? What separates the really great ones from the ones you don'...
Goodnight Moon is such a classic that it's possibly the book that got me so interested in children's books in general. It's one of those books where you read it for the first time and it doesn't make a lot of sense. But there's something...
Every single dinner in our house needs to end with a dessert, and my kids will use every line in the book to get it. "Oh, but I ate my vegetables." "Oh, but I always get it." "Oh, but my little brother got one yesterday that was really b...
In order to get my kids upstairs, finally, to start getting ready for bed, we'll turn it into a game, a "chase me up the stairs" kind of game where either I chase them or they chase me. From my perspective it's clearly just a really fast...
When she was in Kindergarten, my daughter didn't like PE for one specific reason. Every time it was a PE day at school, she'd come home with a new horror story to tell of what antics a certain classmate was up to. Only going after her wh...
The idea of Papa Bear going out into the woods in the middle of the night to scare his own cubs is maybe a little over the top. It's all in good fun, apparently, but I can imagine the more real life version where this completely backfire...
My kids will start asking questions, and the questions are funny ones: why would Brother skip school? This is where I get to quietly pat myself on the back, because apparently if my kids ever get in bad trouble, hopefully at least they d...
We have this book in the collection probably because it had the word Easter on the front. When you're buying books for kids, you end up with your Halloween books and your Christmas books and your Valentine's books, and at some point some...
I am the parent to two wonderful kids. An intelligent, thoughtful and empathetic daughter who's 8 years old and an energetic, playful, and kind 4 year old son. Every day they will do something that makes my heart melt and makes me proud ...
I introduced my Berenstain Bears review marathon with a story about grabbing "Go to the Doctor" off the bookshelf for my son, who was more than just a little afraid of shots. There is a good reason I chose that example. "The Berenstain B...
We had a trip to Disneyland planned last winter. It would be neither my nor my wife's first choice for a vacation as we collectively don't like crowds or getting price gouged. We are definitely not Disney Adults as they are called either...