Valentine's Day is just eight days away! Do you know what you're going to get that/those special little someone(s)? Here are three delightful love-themed books from HarperCollins Children's that will be sure to warm any little heart: From noted author of...
One of the sanity savers when I'm out and about with the kids is my iPhone. Thanks to this small yet seemingly limitless handheld device, I can allow my kids to stay entertained and further their education from the backseat, thanks to educational apps and...
Who says a story has to be a certain number of written pages, a certain number of words, to be considered a story? Joseph Gordon-Levitt's new project says a story can just be a page -- or a sentence -- or a drawing. The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, the first volume in the...
I just love wordless books. I love how a picture can tell a story all on its own. Add a few pages of pictures and bind them together, and you have a potential wordless treasure. Chronicle Books' The Conductor is one of those said treasures. Laetitia Devernay's nueva...
Forty-eight years ago last November, America was rocked to the core when then-President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while waving to crowds from his motorcade. His wife Jackie was left with immense grief and an uncertain new way of life without her husband -- or her life...
New from McSweeney's/McMullen's comes a board book like no other, I guarantee it. Keep Our Secrets (to be read in a whisper) by Jordan Crane will be heralded by children everywhere as a "magical" book. The "secret" to this book is heat-sensitive black ink. The pressure or...
The whimsical, magical prose by Robert Louis Stevenson has for generations expertly captured the spirit of childhood in the most perfect way. His most beloved and recognizable work, A Child's Garden of Verses, has been published in a beautiful gift-giving volume by...
The trendsetting and discussion-inducing book by Ted Hughes, The Iron Giant, has been re-released in a keepsake hardcover edition, filled with modern illustrations by artist Laura Carlin. This tale, a favorite our our son's, spotlights a mysterious metal "man" (robot) who...
I have always been a fan of Japanese art -- cute little animals, people, personified objects -- all things kawaii. {Kawaii = "Kawaii is a word that originated in 1970s Japan when schoolgirls adopted the term to describe everything cute. This word is now understood...
Do you have a little superhero living at home? Some days we do here. A towel thrown over shoulders becomes a cape, and a stick from the backyard becomes an instant scepter. Our vivacious son or imaginative daughter is suddenly transformed into a super-powered world changer....
