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Rabbits in my garden, rabbits in your car

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We’ve had a bunny bonanza in our garden this spring. Well, that makes it sound like a good thing, and they are really, very cute, especially the little ones. But now that young and old have indiscriminately chewed through many of the emerging shoots I had waited for all winter long, I’m pretty fed up with rabbits in general.

Raging over rabbits however got me thinking (seriously and on a more positive note!) about one of our all time favorite audiobook collections: The Rabbit Ears Listening Library series. Read more…Rabbits in my garden, rabbits in your car

Audiobook review: Where the Sidewalk Ends

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Title: Where the Sidewalk Ends – recited, sung and shouted by Shel Silverstein
Author: Shel Silverstein
Format: Audiobook
Narrator: Shel Silverstein
Length: 6hrs 15min
Age Group: 6+

Hearing poetry read out aloud is something altogether different from reading it in a book. But to hear poetry in the poet’s own voice is an experience not to be missed.  Read more…Audiobook review: Where the Sidewalk Ends

Belmont Family Film Festival (Jan 13-16 2017): Where Books Come Alive!

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Boston-area families! Looking for something fun to do together this weekend? Consider the 14th annual Belmont Family Festival (also known as the Belmont World Film Festival), which runs from January 13-16, 2017.

The theme for the festival this year is “Where Books Come Alive.” Some of the films will be world premiers and many of the featured films will be based on children’s books.  Read more…Belmont Family Film Festival (Jan 13-16 2017): Where Books Come Alive!

The magic begins when you open a book…

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This is perhaps most truly said of pop-up books, where the very act of turning a page mobilizes the mechanisms that get the book’s key characters and details leaping out at you, seemingly magically. With their hidden engineering and their vivid, 3-D imagery, pop-ups can entrance the most book-detesting kiddo. Especially because the latest pop-up book creators are taking their art and science to a whole new level. Read more…The magic begins when you open a book…

Here’s looking at you, Brown Bear!

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Head to Amherst, MA by October 9 to hunt for a very special Brown Bear and his friends. They’ll be waiting for you in popular spots all over town. Hike Bare Mountain (to see Brown Bear), wander through wildflowers at Hampshire College (to see Red Bird), or eat at a Black Sheep Deli (to see Black Sheep)…and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the beloved classic Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See. Organized by the Eric Carle Museum, this pop-up exhibition and scavenger hunt celebrates the book that launched Eric Carle’s amazing career as an illustrator.  Read more…Here’s looking at you, Brown Bear!