Book Reviews
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Book Reviews: Mommy Bloggers Gone WildBook reviews of Parenting: Illustrated With Crappy Pictures, Moms Who Drink and Swear and It Takes Balls |
May 2013 | |
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Stardines and plandas and slobsters, oh my!Book reviews: Stardines, Dirt on My Shirt, The Baby Book |
April 2013 |
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Art, shadows and soulful apesChildren's book topics include a lively little girl's museum visit, cutouts designed to produce intriguing shadows and a sumptuous counting book based on apes. |
March 2013 |
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A heart-felt look at Horace PippinA new kids' book chronicles the life and art of renowned local, self-taught African-American painter Horace Pippin. |
February 2013 |
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Fingerprint and duct tape artKids can make faces, animals, plants -- you name it -- from fingerprints. Older kids can make wallets clothes and jewelry from duct tape! |
January 2013 |
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Pop-ups, fold outs & illusionsPop-ups, fold outs and brain-benders books make great gifts for kids. A pop-up Star Wars leads the recommendations. |
December 2012 |
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Sympathy for a cockroachKids' books centered on two unusual protagonists — a cockroach and a glacier — win thumbs up from reviewer Frank Lipsius. |
November 2012 |
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Two classics, reimaginedThe Odyssey is told in a human, modern way while a graphic novel presentation puts faces to A Wrinkle in Time's names and settings to its locations. |
October 2012 |
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Wegman, cool facts and GaileoWeimeraner photographer William Wegman discusses how to depict nature. Often garish illustrations spice up a fact book. And a biography chronicles the "father of modern science." |
September 2012 |
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Food for thoughtReviews of The Onion's Great Escape by Sara Fanilli and A World of Food: Discover Magic Lands Made of Things You Can Eat by Carl Warner. |
August 2012 |
