The Tickety Toc “Chime Time Adventures” DVD is out next week (9/10) and as a way of celebrating the release, I am giving away one copy of the DVD along with a $10 Cold Stone Creamery gift card. Why the ice cream? Well, it’s delicious (duh) and also because Cold […]
Whether your tweenager already loves the popular, all-ages Teen Nick series about ballet and overcoming challenges, or has been wanting to dig in from the beginning, here’s their best chance to enjoy Dance Academy. at their leisure. This giveaway is for a pair of DVD box sets which, in total, […]
Can I be perfectly honest with you? It’s just you and me here, right? While I adore the theory and concept behind the Scholastic Storybook Treasures DVD series, all of us here at OWTK HQ have grown very tired of them arriving at our door featuring the same old stories […]
There’s a scene in my favorite movie of all time, Kicking and Screaming (and before you ask, no, NOT the one with Will Ferrell), when one slightly older male character says to a youthful female on her 17th birthday: “hey, now you can read Seventeen Magazine and get all the […]
Slowly but surely, we’re coming around to Babar. I don’t remember the series when I was a child in the 80’s, so I have no built in affinity for it, and for the first 7 years of my life as a parent I paid little attention to the royal elephant […]
You’ve been waiting patiently, I know, just dyin’ to get started on the Christmas shopping but not wanting to make a single move until perusing the annual OWTK Holiday Gift Guide. Well, get the credit cards ready ’cause it’s finally here! I’ve compiled a stellar and affordable (if not modest) […]
I’m all for recycling, I am, but far too many of the new Scholastic Storybook Treasures DVD sets include stories that were just used in recent collections. This rapid recycling trend has left me mostly ho-hum when Scholastic packages arrive at my front door. But what to my wondering eyes […]
A couple months back, in OWTK’s 2010 Holiday Gift Guide, I wrote this: I’m not the biggest fan of [Richard] Scarry’s books. Today I’d like to formally apologize to Richard Scarry, to the good, um, people of Busytown, and yes, even to the toothbrush, corn on the cob, and hammer […]
