It’s on. The Bear is tearing through the beloved Mary Pope Osborne Magic Tree House books like there is no tomorrow. She started with #9 about 10 days ago, reading that Dolphin-themed volume in less than an hour (the final 15 minutes of which was spent standing in the backyard, […]
It’s 2011. Our electronic gadgetry responds to taps, swipes, sounds, and breath. The notion that a book – a flat, relatively non-interactive form of media – could approximate such feats of wonder seems damn near impossible. It’s not. The tag line on the new book from Herve Tullet should read: […]
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 parent rocks DS – fills the role of party planner (I can’t stop picturing Martin […]
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 with live Oops-es. It never hurts, when holding court over a couple […]
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. Those books and a lb. of goldfish almost made the journeys bearable. I […]
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 devoid of a climatic gimmick. Matlida Mae, the short story’s agitated protagonist, […]
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 both giveaways.
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 proved the idealistic setting to hear Yolen read aloud. She’s the […]
