I am super excited that I am hosting Meredith Zeitlin today on her blog tour for the wonderful YA book, Freshman Year and Other Unnatural Disasters! (Publisher: Putnam Juvenile) I am also excited to tell you that we have a copy to giveaway, so after you read the synopsis and Meredith’s guest post and watch [...]

We are lucky this February and have an extra day in the month. It’s a leap year, and we’ve got Leap Day. I am a member of the St. Louis Zoo, and they sent the cutest postcard with frogs on it to tell everyone about the leap day activities online. I never thought about dedicating [...]

*Picture book preschool through second grade *Three important pigs as main characters *Rating: Hogg, Hogg, & Hog will be a hit with kids because it’s silly, and there are a lot of animal sounds. It will be a hit with adults because it’s clever with tons of little details to notice and point out in [...]

*Picture book, fantasy, preschool through second graders *Little Miss Muffet as main character *Rating: David Conway has written a clever picture book, incorporating many of our favorite nursery rhymes that we can share with a whole new generation of children. And of course, Melanie Williamson’s illustrations are cute, cute, cute! Short, short summary: Little Miss [...]

I had my picture book all ready for today’s post, along with my three activities. But I can’t let this time pass without talking about the tragedy of Whitney Houston’s death. It’s on a lot of people’s minds–especially those of us who grew up in the 80s and then saw The Bodyguard over and over [...]

*Concept book for preschoolers/kindergarteners *Little “pirates” as main characters *Rating: Pirate Nap: A Book of Colors is so cute and perfect for the little guys and gals in our lives who are learning their colors AND fighting to take a nap! Short, short summary: Danna Smith tells us about the colors in our little pirates’ [...]

I am so happy to launch my good friend and great author, Margaret Norton’s, blog tour today for her book, When Ties Break. Margaret Norton is a writer, speaker, personal life coach, and It Works! distributor. She blogs about her life at http://healthy-n-fitgranny.com. Her first book, When Ties Break: A Memoir About How to Thrive [...]

*Historical fiction picture book for preschoolers through third graders *Young George Washington as the main character *Rating: George Washington’s Birthday is a clever picture book filled with all sorts of stories about GW that are probably not true, but it’s a fun book anyway–with some true facts added in about GW. Of course, this is [...]