“Sadie’s Sore Throat” was the third Dr. Hippo book my toddler picked up after reading “The Little Elephant with the Big Earache” and The Moose with Loose Poops. I think he was attracted by the brightly illustrated cover (by Katy Bratun) and the three giraffes (or gee-wuffs). The story of “Sadie’s Sore Throat” begins with [...]
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The boy picked this book off the library shelf himself and we must have read this book at least 3 times a week last month. “My Race Car” begins with a little boy playing with his race cars in the room and then he imagines himself at a real stock car race. The book is [...]
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I received “The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, A Daughter and the People Who Raised Them” for review last week and couldn’t wait to dig into what sounded like Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells. A small town girl myself, I was interested to read about “the town that raised them” [...]
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I remember this story from a collection of books I read as a kid. Browsing through the bookshelves, I was happy to find “The Little Engine That Could” at the library for my train-crazy toddler. What’s more, it’s the original edition by Watty Piper “The Little Engine That Could” is an American classic, which is [...]
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Now, why would a college freshman from Virginia want to stake out a sporting goods store, map out his burglary and proceed to break-in when he doesn’t need the money? Tom Wagner is a “freelancer or hobbyist criminal” and as he puts it, he’s doing it simply because “I can. That’s the only reason I [...]
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