From the monthly archives:
When I was growing up, I spoke English with my father and Hokkien with my mother. My mother told my father to learn Hokkien from me and he told her to improve her English too (they said the same thing for my other siblings too)
In the end, my father learned to speak maybe [...]
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“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 little [...]
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Lucas picked this book off the library shelf himself and Hubby and I 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 [...]
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I received this book for review last week and couldn’t wait to dig into what sounded like “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” and “Calendar Girls”.
A small town girl myself, I was interested to read about “the town that raised them” as Amy Dickinson goes through a divorce and raised her daughter on [...]
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I borrowed this book from the school library when I was about 12. Reading “Daddy-Long-Legs”, I fell in love with the idea of having penfriends and the art of letter writing.
Jerusha Abbott (later called Judy) is an orphan at the John Grier Home, which is nothing like loving atmosphere of the orphanage in John Irving’s [...]
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I remember this story from a collection of books I read as a kid called “A Child’s World”.
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 [...]
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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 need.”
Bored with [...]
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Last week, when Lucas returned from preschool, I told him that the postman had a “present” for him.
Of course, he couldn’t wait to open the box and was *really excited* when he saw these 4 books:
Katie Caught a Cold,
Sadie’s Sore Throat
Peeper has a Fever and
The Little Elephant with the Big Earache
The Moose with Loose [...]
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