Friday, July 30, 2010

Children’s Book Review: Cool Stuff 2.0

June 18, 2010 by Karlynn Johnston  
Filed under Book Nook

Add this to your pile of summer reading, Cool Stuff is back and just as interesting as the first edition!
Cool Stuff 2.0 delves again into the realms of the unasked and unknown regarding How Stuff Works. Roller coasters to robots are covered in great detail, teaching children the mechanics behind some of the everyday things [...]

Children’s Book Review: Skateboarding

June 14, 2010 by Karlynn Johnston  
Filed under Book Nook

Want to entertain your 10 year old board-head this summer?  Hand him/her this book, a helmet, pads and a skateboard (if they don’t already own them) and tell them to git outside.
This book is sure to thrill kids who are interested in skateboarding. The color photographs of boys and girls showing their skateboarding skills and [...]

Children’s Book Review: Bird in a Bathing Suit

May 27, 2010 by Karlynn Johnston  
Filed under Book Nook

This was an exceptionally adorable book, I don’t often get books submitted for younger readers so it’s a pleasure when I get to review them.
Bird has on some fabulous red trunks and decides to take a dip in a bird bath at a young girls house. Unfortunately, she laughs and hurts his feelings and he [...]

Children’s Book Review: The Turtle’s Dream and Keys

May 4, 2010 by Karlynn Johnston  
Filed under Book Nook

Based on and inspired by a real box turtle named Jupiter, this enchanting book details a journey back through time via the dreams of the turtle.
Jupiter wakes up from his long winter hibernation in the spring and awakens from his dreams of winter. The first part of the book shows us other turtles awakening from [...]

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Children’s Book Review: Earth Matters

March 10, 2010 by Karlynn Johnston  
Filed under Book Nook

The book Earth Matters practices what it preaches; the paper was sourced from responsibly managed forests, their printer generates 100% of it’s own electricity and it is printed using vegetable inks instead of petroleum based.
Subtitled “an encyclopedia of ecology” it is exactly that, a wonderful volume full of amazing photos, facts and information about the [...]

Children’s Book Review: Voyage : Ocean

March 8, 2010 by Karlynn Johnston  
Filed under Featured

Right from the beginning this book captures your attention and draws you in; it’s round. Round like the porthole of a submarine and in fact it is just that, a rusty porthole with a view into the wonder that Earth’s oceans are.
And it’s not just a round outer cover, all the pages inside are circular [...]

Children’s Book Review: How To Be a Genius

January 19, 2010 by Karlynn Johnston  
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If only becoming a genius was as easy as reading this delightful book!  However, if you are quite determined to become a genius, then picking up this entertaining read will certainly give you a head start. Ha ha, get it ? Head start? Ahem.. never mind, no one gets my humor.
From the very beginning, where [...]

Cool Children’s Book Find

May 19, 2009 by Karlynn Johnston  
Filed under Book Nook

When shopping for a birthday present today at Chapters, Mike came across these books. He actually found them because he was searching with the Chapters employee for more books like Polo, and one of these is illustrated by the same person who created Polo, Regis Fuller. They are from a series called Explore Your World.  [...]

The Magic Of Polo

May 15, 2009 by Karlynn Johnston  
Filed under Book Nook

Books will almost always fall into the guilt free category of parenting, but Polo books are the most amazing books ever, and I don’t say that lightly.These are incredible, artistic works of art in book form for your children. The pages are wonderfully crafted in the comic book style, but hardly any words, in [...]

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