Archive for the ‘OWTK Children's Book Reviews’ Category

Pinkalicious Comes to Nintendo DS

Pinkalicious Comes to Nintendo DS
Tweet The best-selling, color-coordinated series of books by Victoria Kann makes it’s entrance into video game land this month with Pinkalicious: It’s Party Time. In the game, the player – your child, presumably, unless you the...
March 11th, 2011 | OWTK Children's Book Reviews, OWTK TECH REVIEWS, OWTK Toy Reviews | Read More

Watch This: Barney Saltzberg’s Beautiful Oops in Action

Watch This: Barney Saltzberg’s Beautiful Oops in Action
Tweet There is no trash. There are no mistakes. There are only opportunities to create. One of our favorite books of 2010 comes to life in this video as “Beautiful Oops” author/creator Barney Saltzberg delights a grade school classroom...
January 17th, 2011 | OWTK Children's Book Reviews | Read More

iPhone Apps for Kids Review: Magic Ink Books

Tweet Remember those Invisible Ink Books your mom would buy for the long & boring road trips to Grandma’s house?  You’d rub all over with that curious, rather bland-looking marker, then squeal with delight as images magically appeared.  ...
January 13th, 2011 | OWTK Children's Book Reviews, OWTK TECH REVIEWS | Read More

Kid’s Book Review: Cranky Pants

Kid’s Book Review: Cranky Pants
Tweet CRANKY PANTS by Lucia Gunzel Illustrated by Louis J. Forgione Self-Published, 2010 Cranky Pants, the self-published 1st book from PA author Lucia Gunzel, features a pair of prickly P.O.ed pants, is sprinkled with poetic imagery, and is pleasantly...
December 22nd, 2010 | OWTK Children's Book Reviews | Read More

Kid’s Book Giveaway Winners

Tweet Congrats to Chris @ Book Dads on winning J. Otto Seibold’s “Other Goose”! Congrats to Janelle @ Brimful Curiosities on winning “What’s The Big Idea?” – Ivy & Bean Book 7! Thanks to all who entered...
December 13th, 2010 | GIVEAWAYS, OWTK Children's Book Reviews | Read More

Happy 300th Book, Jane Yolen

Tweet © 1999 by Jason Stemple A couple of years ago, OWTK was fortunate enough to meet Jane Yolen and listen to her read one of her fairy books in the Enchanted Woods of Winterthur.  Surrounded by nature, far removed from the sounds of civilization...
December 7th, 2010 | OWTK Children's Book Reviews | Read More

Kids Book Review & Giveaway: Other Goose

Kids Book Review & Giveaway: Other Goose
Tweet OTHER GOOSE by J. Otto Seibold I prefer day baseball. It’s gotta be turkey on Thanksgiving.  Ham at Christmas. Otherwise, I’m not a traditionalist. At least, not in the traditional sense. That may be why J. Otto Seibold’s...
December 2nd, 2010 | GIVEAWAYS, OWTK Children's Book Reviews | Read More

OWTK’s Favorite Christmas Books

Tweet I couldn’t help myself.  The last trick-or-treater had just walked away as I pulled down the basket of Christmas books from the Bear’s closet. Christmastime is far and away my favorite time of year; the smell of pine, the anticipation...
December 1st, 2010 | OWTK Children's Book Reviews | Read More

Kids Book Review & Giveaway: Ivy & Bean Book 7 – What’s The Big Idea?

Tweet OWTK is excited to be a stop on the Ivy & Bean Fall 2010 Blog Book Tour.  The tour is, essentially, a collection of kid-lit bloggers who have collaborated to cover the much anticipated release of book 7 in the wildly popular Ivy &...
November 30th, 2010 | GIVEAWAYS, OWTK Children's Book Reviews | Read More

The 2010 OWTK Holiday Gift Guide

The 2010 OWTK Holiday Gift Guide
Tweet When selecting a gift for a preschooler, kindergartner or grade school-age kid, I’d like to think that you couldn’t go wrong with anything I’ve featured here on OWTK (especially the music). That said, below are some choice...
November 18th, 2010 | Holiday Gift Guide, OWTK Children's Book Reviews, OWTK Kid's CD Reviews, OWTK TECH REVIEWS, OWTK Toy Reviews, PRODUCT REVIEWS | Read More
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