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What Children Need to Learn to READ Book Review

December 21, 2012 by Sadie 2 Comments

What Children Need to Learn to READ–The complete parent’s guide to ensuring literacy, a love of reading, and school readiness–Birth through the Early Grades Edition This book is the ultimate early learning resource from Learners Lane! It's packed full of age-appropriate tips, fun activities, and more!! What Children Need to Learn to READ is a one-of-a-kind book that will answer your questions while boosting your confidence by teaching you what works best for kids of all age! Make reading FUN with the help of this book! I love the songs, rhymes, games, and checklists included in this book! I think it'd make the perfect holiday gift … [Read more...]

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Download the Weird Book Review & Giveaway

December 8, 2012 by Kat 26 Comments

Do you have a child that loves the strange and macabre? I do and he loves to tell me all about each weird thing that he reads or sees on TV. He loves the Planet Earth series because of the giant bugs and weird animals it shows. He likes to watch the discovery channel just to find the most awesome animals ever and tell me how they eat their food. Sometimes its too much for this pregnant momma. I was sent a book that my son is so in love with! Ripley's Believe It or Not! Download the Weird is one gift that I scored a 10 on. It has so many great articles in it about amazing and weird things that my son has read through three or four times and … [Read more...]

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My Friend Paris Kid’s Books Review & Giveaway

December 1, 2012 by Kat 19 Comments

We were sent two book from the My Friend Paris series recently and I think they are the cutest things. The books we were sent were Paris Goes to Lake Tahoe and My Twins First Christmas. "Paris is a typical 14-year-old girl living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She enjoys musical theater, golf, and going to the movies with her friends. She has inspired seven books currently in print and is working on several additional titles involving her twin sisters as well as children's travel to New York, France, Italy and Hawaii. " Paris Goes to Lake Tahoe In this first travel related book, Paris and her sisters explore Lake Tahoe in the Winter as … [Read more...]

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Meet Me in Nuthatch Book Review

December 1, 2012 by Kat Leave a Comment

"Meet Me in Nuthatch" by Jacqueline T. Lynch Book Review A publicity stunt to attract tourists to a small dying town (population 63), results in the entire community turning the clock back to 1904. It is local Christmas tree farmer Everett Campbell’s idea, after watching the film “Meet Me in St. Louis,” his young daughter’s new favorite movie. What begins as half practical joke and half desperate ploy initiates the rebirth of Nuthatch, Massachusetts. Tourists do come, along with the media. Everett’s resentful teenaged son rebels at living in the pretend past. His wife, a medical transcriptionist who works at home, a … [Read more...]

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Broken Promises Review & Book Tour

November 29, 2012 by Kat 2 Comments

Broken Promises Review & Book Tour Broken Promises Buy on Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Smashwords What would you do if the man you loved became one of your greatest enemies? Would your love be enough to save him? Warning: This book and Broken Promises Review are 18+. Brianna Lane is a clumsy sort of heroine but her moment is coming. Bri is looking forward to a great date night with her lover Quinn when disaster strikes. All around them people are arguing, fighting, killing each other and it seems like the world has gone crazy. When Quinn is affected, Bri promises him to find the cure and escapes. She finds out not only … [Read more...]

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Your Mark on the World Book Review & Tour

October 31, 2012 by Kat Leave a Comment

Your Mark On The World Purchase on Kindle / Paperback / Nook / Smashwords Your Mark On The World combines inspiring stories of ordinary people doing remarkable things to make the world a better place with practical advice to empower anyone to give more to a cause (charity, non-profit or social venture) without giving up a career or family. I got a chance to read this book through Promotional Book Tours and I am happy I did. I love inspirational books. I always feel so energized after reading them because it makes me think I can go out and do anything. Like Botevy. Despite the horrors she faced as a small child during Pol Pot's … [Read more...]

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Art of Winter Book Review

October 14, 2012 by Kat 1 Comment

Did you ever see a winter landscape and just wish you had a great camera and a long range lens? Me too but I know the stuff I could take would never be close to the photos in Art of Winter: A Photographic Essay by Julie M Covert. It is one of the most lovely books I have ever seen. It is currently residing on my coffee table until I go to my grandmothers to give it to her. I am sure it will grace her house will more elegance than mine. It is a hardcover coffee table that offers an amazing first person view into the real landscapes of winter. Julie M. Covert spent a lot of freezing mornings capturing these photos in her home of Drummond … [Read more...]

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I See Me Personalized Book Review

October 14, 2012 by Kat Leave a Comment

I See Me is a great company that specializes in personalized books for kids. They make reading fun for all ages. They also are a one stop shop for unique gifts for anyone on your list whether it be birthdays, holidays, or just because gifts. My youngest son Baby E received a personalized Christmas Book pictured above. I love how colorful his book is. I know that he is only 2 and cannot read but he got excited everytime I said his name while I was reading it out loud to him. Here is one of the cute pages that was in his book. Almost every page has my child's name on it and plenty of beautiful, colorful pictures. My son;s Very Merry … [Read more...]