We were very excited that our review team was approached by Discovery Girls to review their new book series titled, “Fab Girls Guide.” There were 4 guide books and we each took a look.
Discovery Girls already publishes a magazine created by girls, for girls ages 8 and up. For each issue they travel to a [...]

I love suspense/mystery novels. There, I said it. Love them. I try to have at least one in my diaper bag at all times to read when stuck waiting for a train at the RR tracks or in a long line at the bank. I like books that are quick reads, intriguing, and aren’t so [...]

What’s Wrong, Little Pookie?, the new board book by the great Sandra Boynton, chronicles the familiar situation we parents find ourselves in trying to determine why our charges, who don’t quite have vocabulary or ability to tell us, are upset. It’s another hit out of the park for her.
Pookie, the Pig, is crying and Pookie’s [...]

The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know—and that doesn’t mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it’s female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it’s not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers—although that’s included, of course! Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this book is every girl’s invitation to adventure.

If you like smart, dark fiction, race out and get “The Interloper” by Antoine Wilson immediately. A man struggles to deal with his wife’s sorrow after her brother is brutally murdered.
The book tells the story of his imaginative attempt to seek revenge upon the jailed killer, a quixotic attempt to restore his wife’s happiness which [...]

From time to time Harper Collins sends me books to review, and about a month or so ago the book Damage Control: Women on the Therapists, Beauticians, and Trainers Who Navigate Their Bodies, edited by Emma Forrest, arrived in my mailbox.
I have no earthly idea why they sent this book, other than the timing was [...]

Jane Yolen and Mark Teague are back with the latest in the “How Do Dinosaurs….” series that includes How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? and How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms?.
My dino-crazy 6 year old boy loves this series, and the school book fair gave me a great opportunity to buy him the newest book [...]

Any parent will tell you what a pain in the neck (and lower) it can be to read the same children’s books over and over and over again.
I fully recognize that kids learn through repetition, but after reading Goodnight Moon and Guess How Much I Love You and The Very Hungry Caterpillar eleventy million times, [...]

I had ordered a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows from Amazon.com, but then decided I couldn’t possibly wait four days after release to read it, so I went out to my local Borders and grabbed a copy. I dug in right away, and then life interfered, and it took forever for me [...]

Wendy McClure is best known as a contributor to the ever-feisty “Television Without Pity” website, as well as her own blog at poundy.com She wrangled a book deal from her blog, and the result is I’m Not the New Me, a memoir of her struggle to lose weight.
For the first half of this [...]

For me the mark of a great author is someone makes me want to go out and read everything they’ve ever written, and I’ve been doing that with Janet Evanovich’s books for years.
Books in her “Stephanie Plum” series make me literally laugh out loud at least three times per book. So anytime a new book [...]

The Good Night Our World series of board books is a great idea in principle: a series of books that introduces little people to various places in our world.
Each book proceeds from “Good Morning” to “Good Night” and visits the city or place the book is about through all four seasons. There are more than [...]

I’ll admit it. I absolutely LOVE books. In fact, I’m a bit nutty about them. I’ve been reading since I was four, and it is not unusual for me to have three or four (or more!) selections going at a time. I can spend HOURS at a time in the library or my local Barnes [...]

With four kids under eight, I’m always on the lookout for good bedtime stories that hold the interest of all my kids, and I try to have a lot of them, because like all parents of preschoolers I get sick of reading the same books over and over and over again. Gossie and Gossie [...]

Sharp Objects, just released in paperback, is the story of a Chicago reporter sent back to her hometown in Mississippi to cover the disappearances of two little girls. Because her editor is too cheap to spring for hotels, our heroine must stay with her fascinatingly flawed family.
Stephen King says he was unable [...]