Children’s Book Review: Gareth Lucas Noisy Books from Silver Dolphin Books
DIG, DIG, DIGGER! A Gareth Lucas Noisy Book By: Gareth Lucas Published: July 11, 2017 Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books Fiction/Board Book If your toddler loves construction equipment or watching Bob the Builder (is that show still on?) then this book is just for them. Each page features an animal driving a different type of equipment…
Read More Book Review: Surgeon’s Story By Mark Oristano and Giveaway
SURGEON’S STORY Inside OR-3 with One of America’s Top Pediatric Heart Surgeons By: Mark Oristano with Kristine Guleserian, MD Published: February 28, 2017 Publisher: Authority Publishing Non-Fiction I’m participating in the Pump Up Your Book Blog Tour for Oristano’s book, SURGEON’S STORY. I love medical memoirs and this focus on a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon was…
Read More Book Review: The Breakdown by B. A. Paris
THE BREAKDOWN By: B.A. Paris Published: July 18, 2017 Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Fiction/Suspense/Mystery/Thriller One of the most riveting thrillers I read last year was Paris’s first novel, BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. It made my skin crawl and kept me turning the pages until I finished it. Her sophomore thriller, THE BREAKDOWN is just as creepy…
Read More Children’s Book Review: Alphabetter and How I Did It by Linda Ragsdale
ALPHABETTER By: Linda Ragsdale Illustrated by: Martina Hogan Published: April 4, 2017 Publisher: Flowerpot Children’s Press Non-Fiction Do your kids like making up words? Do you ever wish there was a word to describe the joy your child is feeling the first time they ride without training wheels? Do you like combining words to make…
Read More Quick Lit: Mini Reviews of Some Recent Reads – July Edition
I’ve read a number of books over the last few months that were for my own reading enjoyment. Not for review, but because I’ve been wanting to read them or they caught my attention. Most of them have been talked about ad nauseam so they don’t really need a full review. But, I’d still like…
Read More Children’s Book Review: If You Were Me and Lived in Middle Ages and Viking Europe By Carole P. Roman
IF YOU WERE ME AND LIVED IN…MIDDLE AGES By: Carole P. Roman Illustrated by: Mateya Arkova Published: July 9, 2016 Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Non-Fiction I would expect that most kids who read this book would feel grateful to not have grown up during the Middle Ages. Life was quite difficult and if you…
Read More Book Review: The Garden of Small Beginnings By Abbi Waxman
THE GARDEN OF SMALL BEGINNINGS By: Abbi Waxman Published: May 2, 2017 Publisher: Berkley Books Fiction You would think that a novel about a woman recently widowed by her much-too-young husband’s horrific accident and her sudden entrance into the world of single motherhood would be too sad to read. I may have put this one…
Read More Books that Arrived in June 2017
June began with an amazing trip with the kids to Washington DC and New York City. We soaked up the history of our country, sat in lots of traffic, had fun bartering, loved “Wicked” and “The Lion King” on Broadway, walked numerous miles, laughed, and got very little sleep. But it was a blast! So…
Read More Children’s Book Review: One Good Thing About America By Ruth Freeman
ONE GOOD THING ABOUT AMERICA By: Ruth Freeman Published: March 21, 2017 Publisher: Holiday House Fiction/Middle-Grade Fiction If you have ever moved and had to start over in a new school or new community or a new job, you can identify with that feeling of uncertainty and trepidation. But, imagine starting over in a new…
Read More Sorry for the Messiness – Thank Goodness it’s Fixed
UPDATE: Thankfully I have friends in high places and my new BFF Aric got me all taken care of. It must be something with Photobucket because I noticed several blogs had issues. I’m so thankful that it is fixed and my blog looks cleaner. This has only pushed me to move to WordPress, so that…
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