Children’s Book Review: Blast Lab Activity Book

Blast Lab Activity Book is an excellent companion to the original Blast Lab book that I reviewed earlier on this site.  Full of the same type of fun scientific activities, it also has the added bonus of over 800 stickers to match.
Stickers that include intestines, snot and fart noises.
How can you lose giving this to [...]

Children’s Book Review: Marie & Her Friend the Sea Turtle

Marie & Her Friend the Sea Turtle was the first tri-lingual book that I have had the pleasure of reviewing and it was a lovely treat to read.
Marie is a kind and compassionate little girl who is fortunate enough to live by a beautiful blue ocean and partake in daily adventures finding shells and going [...]

Adult Book Review: Houseworks

With spring rapidly approaching, our thoughts turn to the clutter that has accumulated in our houses over the winter. And anyone who claims they are clutter free hasn’t spent the winter cooped up in a house with two kids!
This book is an excellent guide to help us start our spring cleaning and beyond. Presented in [...]

Children’s Book Review: How Things Work Encyclopedia

The How Things Work Encyclopedia is the perfect starter book for inquisitive little minds, the topics presented aren’t too heavy in detail and cover the everyday items that surround us.
Each page is color coded so that you can quickly find the area you are looking for, whether it is the section on energy or the [...]

Children’s Book Review: The Last Guardian & the Reject Bike

This delightful story is going to resonate with many young boys and girls who are standing on the threshold of the awkward pre-teen years, or are right in the midst of that hormonal hoopla that age 13 happens to be. It is so easy to identify with the main character in this book,what young teen doesn’t feel pudgy, inept at sports or completely out of [...]

Adult Book Review: Organic Home

Where my recently reviewed book A Slice of Organic Life dealt with mainly the use of our outdoors and perhaps a windowsill or two for growing areas, Organic Home is all about trying to attain toxin-free living within our homes.The book concentrates on how to create the best environment in our house that we possibly [...]

Children’s Book Review: Humberto, the Bookworn Hamster

I do believe that I have my own, personal little Bookworm Hamster occupying a room in my house. He’s not as small, nor as furry, but both little bookworms have their nose stuck in a book perpetually. Unlike Humberto though, my son does get outside to play with his friends and family. Humberto, on the [...]

Children’s Book Review: Not Ordinarily Borrowable

Not Ordinarily Borrowable was a delightful surprise. I was incredibly impressed to find a book in the fantasy genre that featured a strong, decisive female character , and not only that, one that is written for a younger audience.
Maria is a scholarly girl, who is a hard worker and quite determined to finish her studies [...]

Children’s Book Review: Hemophobula the Wannabe Vampire

Oh Hemophobula. How cute, disastrous and entertaining you are. Who has ever heard of a vampire who faints at the slightest drop of blood? Well, now we have, thanks to the hilarious antics of this tiny 3 foot tall, buck toothed vampire. One can only become more fond of him the more you read, he’s [...]

Children’s Book Review: Blast Lab

Blast Lab is a clean freak’s worst nightmare. In an incredibly good, scientific, keep your children entertained,  but your-house-will-never-be-clean-again way. Almost all the materials can be found in the average household, and if not, they can be easily acquired at the nearest store.
Do you have a bar of soap and a microwave? Be prepared for [...]

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