P.S. I Love You was a best-seller in 2007 but I never thought of reading the book because it was about a young woman who lost her husband to cancer.
A young married woman myself (with a living husband), I certainly didn’t want to read about such a horrifying situation.
When my father died suddenly, PS, I [...]
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Joey Pigza is a “wired” young boy who suffers from attention-deficit-hyperactive-disorder (ADHD) but what’s interesting is that he’s actually the most normal person in his CRAZY family!
First, his parents are divorced but his erratic, reckless motorbike-riding father doesn’t seem to want to move on because he stalks his ex-wife and her new boyfriend frequently.
His mother [...]
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When I saw the book cover, I thought it’s a ghost story until I read that it’s about a *painfully* shy girl, Anna Newland, who turned herself into a total recluse at 7 years old by hiding herself away in passageways and secret rooms she built in her family’s Victorian mansion.
A middle child with [...]
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After the success of reading Margaret Wise Brown’s “Goodnight Moon” I was happy to find “Two Little Trains” written by the same author for my No. 1 Thomas the Tank Engine fan.
My toddler was delighted to see that the first few pages had the illustration of a present, which contained a wooden toy train. He [...]
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I was delighted to find this book among the shelves of the library especially as I’ve been seeing it at Borders bookshop since God knows when!
It costs a whopping RM35 I couldn’t bear to buy the book even though it’s a classic. Reading this book with my toddler, I know understand why this book, which [...]
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If you’re shopping for a nice, thoughtful present for a pre-teen or teenage girl, check out “Bobbi Brown Teenage Beauty” because it’s a *great* book for teenage girls.
“Bobbi Brown Teenage Beauty: Everything You Need to Look Pretty, Natural, Sexy and Awesome” is a handy reference of about 200 pages with:
glossy pictures of teenage girls [...]
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I am now an official Roald Dahl fan! ‘Boy: Tales of Childhood’ is a sort of autobiography as the book covers the periodRoald Dahl was born in the South of Wales (his parents are Norwegian) and how his life changed when his father died, leaving his mother to care for 3 sisters, ‘an ancient half-sister’, [...]
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“The Cat in the Hat” and “The Cat in the Hat Comes Back” were two of the books I’d lined up in our home library. Recently, my toddler asked me to read “The Cat in the Hat”.
“The Cat in the Hat” starts off with a boy and his sister, Sally stuck at home alone on [...]
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