The Day I Got Lazy and Other News of the Week
Etiquette for preschoolers, new wing of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and other news of the week
Book Review: Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland: A Math Adventure
Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland: A Math Adventure By Cindy Neuschwander Illustrated by Wayne Geehan Charlesbridge Publishing, 2001 Age Range: 6 and up…
Where to send your gently used books–if you can bear to part with them, that is
One of my favorite parenting/book blogs is Playing by the Book, a blog devoted to children’s books and the crazy, fun crafty things they inspire the…
Guest Post: The best children’s book you haven’t read
Grumbly Bunnies By Willie Welch Illustrated by Tammie Lyon Charlesbridge Publishing, 2009 Age Range: 2 and up You probably haven’t read Grumbly Bunnies, by Willie Welch…
If you are interested in that sort of thing…
There’s an update on my novel-in-progress, Asylum, over at BostonWriters.
Book Review: Pooh Invents a New Game
This week’s book is a classic Winnie-the-Pooh story and there is really very little I need to say about it. So instead of adding another five paragraphs of praise for A. A. Milne to the Webiverse, I will simply share what may be my favorite paragraph from any book The Four-Year-Old and I have read together thus far.
In which The Four-Year-Old gains a new appreciation for my age
The Four-Year-Old, interrupting her parents’ discussion of what to do with our out-of-date technology: “Mommyo, do you really have the first Kindle ever made?”
Mommyo, glossing over the fine print* with her usual wild abandon: “Yep. And your Daddyo has the second Kindle ever made.”
The Four-Year-Old, with a gasp: “You’re that old????”
Book Review: Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
I come from a family of mathematicians. Although Vector Calculus pretty much ensured that I would never be a mathematician myself, my relationship with math is once more on a cordial footing. I’ve even caught myself accidentally looking forward to tinkering with math again as The Four-Year-Old goes through school. Naturally, when I found Joseph D’Agnese’s picture book on Fibonacci, I brought it home immediately.
Book Review: Brambly Hedge
I learned about Jill Barklem’s Brambly Hedge books through Snapdragons, a blog about the domestic adventures of a new mom. The author of the blog had grown up reading these stories and was very excited about the prospect of sharing them with her own child. I’d never heard of them, but as I’m always on the look out for new books to read with The Four-Year-Old, I spent a week or two hunting them down.
“How big is a zombie?”
The Four-Year-Old is an expert practitioner of the art of delaying bedtime. So much so, that I’m convinced that putting off bedtime is the way children develop the vital life skill of procrastination.
Still, bedtime is bedtime and not, as The Four-Year-Old claims, the best time for hunting polar region allosaurs, so something had to be done.
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