Book Reviews
Hopefully you or your kids will find their next favourite read. Here is to great books!
Kid Lit Community Giveaway – Celebrate With Us
KID LIT COMMUNITY GIVEAWAY - Celebrate With Us Tis the season of celebrating and the Kid Lit community would love to celebrate along with you. While winning $500 Amazon Gift Card would be super nice I also encourage you to check out the fabulous authors or kid book...
Art of Blissful Parenting Book Blast
I am pleased to be sharing and participating in the Art of Blissful Parenting Book Blast hosted by BeachBoundBooks. This Book Blast is for The Art of Blissful Parenting by Sharon Ballantine. The blast will run October 24 - October 26, 2016. There is a $25 Amazon...
Beginning the 52 Lists Project & Free Printables
BEGINNING THE 52 LISTS PROJECT AND FREE PRINTABLES I love to journal it is no surprise. I love the process of writing to delve deep into myself to help guide me, recenter me, or just for a tune-up as the seasons of my life change. I recently came across to books...
Picture Books to Inspire, Enjoy and Love
PICTURE BOOKS TO INSPIRE, ENJOY AND LOVE I have a special treat for you today. 3 different picture books that will inspire your children and I know they will grow to love and enjoy as well. Not only will I give you a quick glance at these beauties but at the end of...
The Truth About My Unbelievable Summer Book Review
THE TRUTH ABOUT MY UNBELIEVABLE SUMMER BOOK REVIEW The truth about my unbelievable summer, well, there isn't too much unbelievable I'm afraid. If I suffer from this affliction can you imagine how your students feel when they sit down to write the dreaded 'What did you...
Bust Boredom on Road Trips with Lonely Planet Kids
BUST BOREDOM ON ROAD TRIPS WITH BOREDOM BUSTERS: GAMES FOR THE ROAD BY LONELY PLANET KIDS This is one of those; when I was kid beginnings. When I was kid, my sister and I, would pile into my parents Bronco or Suburban with a few books and our imaginations and head out...
Selfies in the Wild Blog Tour and Book Review
SELFIES IN THE WILD BLOG TOUR AND BOOK REVIEW I am pleased today to be a part of the blog tour for Selfies in the Wild by C.L. Murphy. It is the lasted adventure of the lovable wolf pup Lovable Lobo. Come check out the new book and stay for the giveaway at the end....
The Sockkids Say No to Bullying Blog Tour
THE SOCKKIDS SAY NO TO BULLYING BLOG TOUR BeachBoundBooks is pleased to be coordinating a Blog Tour for the children's book The Sockkids Say No to Bullying written by Michael John Sullivan and Illustrated by Alexandra Gold. The tour will run from July 18 - August 15,...
Goo and Spot Under the Orange Tree Review & Giveaway
To keep with the celebration of books for Children's Book Week I have the new picture book from author Elsa Takaoka and illustrator Cahterine Toennisson, Goo and Spot Under the Orange Tree. I have reviewed and my kids have enjoyed a number of Takaoka's books already....
Dragons Are Real Book Blast & Giveaway
DRAGONS ARE REAL BOOK BLAST AND GIVEAWAY I am happy this week to be kicking off Children's Book Week with a Book Blast from BeachBoundBooks for the book Dragons Are Real by Valarie Budayr and illustrated by Michael Welply. BeachBoundBooks is pleased to be coordinating...
A Buss from Lafayette Blog Tour Review
I am pleased to be participating in the A Buss from Lafayette Blog Tour hosted by BeachBoundbooks for the middle grade/young adult novel A Buss From Lafayette by Dorothea Jensen from April 11 - May 2, 2016. My Review: Nothing draws me in more than historical...
Sir Princess Petra’s Mission: The Pen Pieyu Adventures #3
SIR PRINCESS PETRA'S MISSION: THE PEN PIEYU ADVENTURES #3 BOOK BLOG TOUR I am pleased today to bring you my review of the third book of The Pen Pieyu Adventures: Sir Princess Petra's Mission by Diane Mae Robinson as a part of a book blog tour hosted by Sue Morris at...
Book Review of Tales of Bunjitsu Bunny by John Himmelman
BOOK REVIEW OF TALES OF BUNJITSU BUNNY BY JOHN HIMMELMAN Do you have a marital arts kid at home? Boy or girl. As a parent we had enrolled our children in a family Taekwondo school to help them work on self-confidence, discipline, improve their co-ordination and to...
Friendships and Changing Girl Stereotypes: Little Robot Book Review
New review of the graphic novel by Ben Hatke, Little Robot. Friendship and Changing Girl Stereotypes in Stories Graphic novels are becoming more and more popular at younger ages and its easy to see way. Little Robot by Ben Hatke, a writer, artist, author of graphic...
Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2016: #readyourworld
Multicultural Children's Book Day 2016 Multicultural Children's Book Day is January 27th. A day to celebrate and to spread the word and raise awareness about the importance of diversity in children's literature. This is the second year I'm...
How to Convince Your Parents to Get You a Pet Shark: Land Shark
Recently released Land Shark by Beth Ferry and illustrated by Ben Mantle from Chronicle Books (fall 2015) is a covert pet acquisition operation by one boy to convince his parents to buy him the ultimate birthday present, a pet shark. So his parents do what any...
My Top Fiction Reads of 2015
MY TOP FICTION READS OF 2015 My reading started off with a bang and any young adult book I would read the rest of the year would of course be compared to The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins. I'll admit I was a little late to the Hunger Games hype but...
Goo and Spot in the Do Not Wiggle Riddle Book Blast and Giveaway
GOO AND SPOT IN THE DO NOT WIGGLE RIDDLE BOOK BLAST AND GIVEAWAY I am pleased to take part in the book blast for Goo and Spot in the Do Not Wiggle Riddle by children's author Elsa Takaoka. She will have another Goo and Spot book coming out soon but don't miss out on...