HALLOWEEN!…It’s the perfect time to read out loud or alone and gathered around the pumpkin. Borrowed from the medieval practice known as Halloween, Hallowmas or Samhain, this is a time when the veil between two worlds is thought to be the thinnest and the perfect time for those that have already passed from this world [...]
Yay!!! Ivy + Bean Paper Doll Play Set with 100+ re-usable stickers. Fantastic!! Wait! Two copies on the shelf? James McCann saves the day, ” No, no, there’s about 100 of them in the store.” Whew. Despite the fact that I went to Kidsbooks to have brilliant book-seller Leslie Buffam select some great new books [...]
Where the Wild Things Are, Where the Sidewalk Ends and Green Eggs and Ham: these three wonderful books are synonymous with childhood but believe it or not, the books of Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss weren’t always considered appropriate reading. “They brought a shock of subversion to [...]
