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, […]
With the year coming to a close, my gears are grinding to a near-stop. I don’t expect you’ll see many new posts on OWTK over the next couple weeks. It’s been a wonderful year of music and books and other kid-stuff. Thanks for reading OWTK and for allowing me to […]
OWTK is an unabashed Readeez fan. Michael Rachap’s stark imagery and hyper-catchy songs are about as pleasing as kid’s media gets. Always one to push forward with new technologies and new platforms for digesting his bite-sized edutainment masterpieces, Rachap peeled back the curtain yesterday on Omneez. This new product is […]
It’s easy to appreciate a math game that can be played by both my 6-year old and her 3 1/2-year old sis. Alzebra, a new iPhone app for kids, features games centered around early math ideas – sequencing, sorting, shapes – that help the Mouse learn and entertain the Bear, […]
It’s 2010 and everything feels so damn disposable. Traditions, however small, involving family and/or longtime close friends become more valuable. They’re critical to raising introspective kids with a sense of purpose and a scope beyond their immediate impulses and desires. That is what I jotted down while driving home from […]
2 quick bits for you today, both concerning Nashville, TN jazz-for-kids outfit Coal Train Railroad. 1st, the band’s Kickstarter campaign is down to it’s final 4 days and there’s only $620 left to raise for the band’s trip and performance at Lincoln Center in NYC next February. If you’re not […]
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.
In my feeble attempts to pen a children’s book all my own, I’ve been told that dream sequences, flashbacks and other mind-bending trickeration have little place in media for pre-readers. Seems the minds of those tiny people cannot process that level of detail. I don’t deny these assertions. They’re probably […]
