by Site Owner | Sep 28, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
by Jean Reidy, Illustrated by Genevieve Leloup Bloomsbury Kids, $12.99, 32 pages Too Princessy! is a bedtime story that might be the choice of an adult hoping to make a fast getaway. It is a story of a bored child finding everything to be too something, and that...
by Site Owner | Sep 26, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
By Chris Gall Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 32 pages In this book the prehistoric dinotrux are relegated to a museum and are subjected to all the things that children, visited the museum, do to museum exhibits. Then many species of dinotrux escape and...
by Site Owner | Sep 11, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
Butterfly in the Sky By Thea Feldman Kingfisher, 32 pages, $3.99 Butterflies, by Thea Feldman, is part of a series of educational books written about the natural world. Its pages are filled with photos of a wide variety of butterflies and moths....
by Site Owner | Aug 22, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Crafts & Hobbies
By Deborah Putnoi Trumpeter, $17.95, 192 pages The Drawing Mind is to right brain people what Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is to left brain people. And that clue is probably enough to tell whether this book might be for you. Analytical types may find it...
by Site Owner | Aug 13, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Crafts & Hobbies
By Kelly Lynn Jones Chronicle Books, $19.95, 84 pages Little Paper Planes is a great summer vacation activity book for kids. Its removable pages can be cut out and assembled into paper airplanes. The page layout thoughtfully separates directions and text from the...