The Bear, age 4.7, can now tie her own shoes. This is mostly because she rules but her mastery of one of life’s little challenges was definitely helped by the awfully clever new board book called The Zoo’s Shoes. Within a 1/2 hour of opening the creative shoebox packaging the […]
Many children are, at this exact moment, hard at work on the 1st or 2nd draft of their annual piece de resistance. Decisions of unquestioned importance are being weighed by bright-eyed youngsters everywhere – a blue or red scooter? or maybe, these days, the question is whether to request a […]
From the creator of the terrific Holiday classic Olive the Other Reindeer comes a modern day vampire tale unlike anything you’ve read before. How does a vegetarian, candy loving, human fearing little Vamp sound? To this gang it sounds like vun heck of a book! We tend to shy away […]
The Do’Bees is a relatively new series of children’s books penned by publisher, businessman and entrepreneur Kyle Donovan. The purpose of the series is a uplifting one, to help convince youngsters that they can be(e) anything that they want to be in life. The series is on it’s second character-focused […]
While we waited for Wall-E to take the screen a few weeks ago we saw a preview for a new modern-fairy tale called The Tales of Despereaux. The movie looks terrific. Turns out it’s based off an original Newberry award winning book by Kate Dicamillo. The Mrs. picked up the […]
Whoa! We still know how to read in this house. Yes, it’s true. Despite not posting a book review in months the OWTK household still receives and reads (and thinks about reviewing) dozens of books each quarter. Here are some of the best that we’re flippin’ through right now. And […]
A fairly sizable piece on spending a short weekend in D.C. is coming soon. In the meantime…remember my very favorable review of “The Ballad of Phineas McBoof” by Dr. Noize or the fact that I believe it to be a top 10 kid’s record in 2007 (in the Fids and […]
So landis mom, of the super duper blog Bumblee Sweet Potato, recently returned from my favorite place in the world – Provence, France. Upon her return she launched a neat little contest asking fellow bloggers to write about “a kid-type thing that you enjoy more than your kids–or enjoy more […]
