A while back I was sent a copy of a vegan cookbook, Isa Does It: Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. Thumbing through the book I started making plans for a new diet for myself and The Bee but then I froze. “Going vegan” seemed to be a thing that sounded like…
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Kerri Kochanski, Author of 1,001 People That Suck is fed up with bad humanity and unkind behavior, and is “calling people out.” Championing kindness, tolerance, and understanding, the book “publicly shames” people who commit social crimes. As these crimes generally go unpunished, offenders fail to suffer a consequence, and thus, their bad behavior and unkindness continues. The book,…
February is National Children’s Dental Awareness Month. This, along with President’s Day on February 17th, inspired me to share George Washington’s Teeth, an amusing book which chronicles the trials of George Washington’s teeth issues. All of my life I had been taught that George Washington had teeth made of wood. In Deborah Chandra and Madeleine Comora’s George Washington’s Teeth, we learn that…
Last week I was able to attend the annual Publisher’s Book Buzz at the Free Library of Philadelphia. The “book buzz,” is what it sounds like: a great way to hear about book titles that these major publishers think will be best sellers or otherwise titles that libraries will want to know about and order ahead of time. Included in…
Allow me a moment to gush about Bob Shea. He writes the best books for preschoolers full of potties, being quiet in the library, bold sharks afraid of spiders and just seems to get their world. His books are a blast read and share and he has written a new book to add to your collection. In Don’t Play With…