Book Review: Organize Your Way By Katie and Kelly McMenamin
ORGANIZE YOUR WAY Simple Strategies for Every Personality Type By: Katie McMenamin and Kelly McMenamin Published: March 14, 2017 Publisher: Sterling For many, September is the start of a new year. With getting the kids back to school and back into a routine, it is also natural to get our homes reorganized and systems in…
Read More Books that Came My Way in August 2017
As summer is ending, I’m looking back on my last three months and can’t believe what a whirlwind it was. What I had planned to be a relaxing summer full of reading and family time turned into an overwhelming summer with the loss of my dear friend and librarian. After spending many days working at…
Read More Quick Lit: Mini Reviews of Some Recent Reads – August Edition
I’m trying to read more books that I choose 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 or have been on my to-read list for a long time so they don’t really need…
Read More Children’s Book Review: Two Books to Get Your Child Ready for School
KISSES FOR KINDERGARTEN By: Livingstone Crouse Illustrated by: Macky Pamintuan Published: June 13, 2017 Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books Fiction/Picture Book Stella Isabella Harden has decided she doesn’t need to go to school. She can get everything that she would learn at Kindergarten by staying home and playing school with her dog Buster. Stella and Buster…
Read More Children’s Book Review: Time for Kids Big Book of Why Activity Book
THE BIG BOOK OF WHY ACTIVITY BOOK Published: July 18, 2017 Publisher: Time for Kids Non-Fiction Do your kids need more brain activity during the summer? In our area, we are down to three weeks until school starts. Getting them back in the mode of regular reading and brain work is important and your kids’…
Read More Books that Arrived in July 2017
Boy, where did July go? It certainly flew by for me and I’m betting for a lot of you too. I took our daughter school shopping this week and I can’t even believe we are starting school in less than three weeks. I WANT MORE SUMMER!!! I’ve been really busy at the library this last…
Read More Children’s Book Review: National Geographic Kids Almanac 2018
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS ALMANAC 2018 Published: May 9, 2017 Publisher: National Geographic Children’s Books Non-Fiction Are your kids in the summer slide…losing their reading and thinking skills because their brains are focused on video games, days at the pool, or Netflix? In this last month of summer, get their brains in gear by giving them…
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 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…
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