Strollerderby

Browse by Tags

• Father's Day Book Pick: Buy Grandpa Time

  I've always been a fan of kids books for adults on holidays - especially grandparents who can very well buy themselves everything they've ever wanted . . . except time with the grandkids. Just in time for Father's Day, Kristy Dempsey's Me With You offers grandpas plenty of time to cuddle on the couch with their favorite little munchkin. Read More... Posted May 25 2009, 11:33 AM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: books, gifts, grandparents, reviews, father's day, book review, Jeanne Sager, grandfather, grandpa

• 10 Great Books For (Traumatizing) Children

  Great finds from Cracked.com   I Wish Daddy Didn’t Drink So Much             Wanna know why daddy's always asleep sunday afternoon, a high life tipping out of his limp hand and pouring onto the floor?  Or how about when daddy gets all worked up and strats yelling at ghosts. Children's books are a great way to help kids cope with real problems, but if daddy really is a raging alcoholic, you need more than a book, kid. Read More... Posted May 19 2009, 10:00 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: books, funny, humor, roald dahl, scary, cracked.com, crack babies

• You Can't Scare Your Kids Out of an Eating Disorder

  They seem like the perfect mix of over-the-top drama and real-life cautionary tales to scare your kids straight. But all those books out there warning about the dangerous world of eating disorders? Could be helping your kids advance their disordered eating. Read More... Posted May 15 2009, 10:00 AM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: Movies, books, reading, eating, childhood obesity, weight loss, eating disorders, Jeanne Sager, reading to your kids, disordered eating, weight problem

• Children's Books You Will Never Read

  Why not? Because they're all fake and have offensive titles. In honor of Children's Book Week (which Amy told us about), here is a list of "Children's Books That Didn't Make It" from Jokes.com, a site that compiles jokes and comedy videos from assorted funny people. Read More... Posted May 13 2009, 12:52 PM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: children's books, books, funny, humor, comedy, childrens books, jokes, Brett Singer, comedy central, children's book week, children's books that didn't make it, jokes.com, fake children's book titles

• Post Partum Hilarity in Book Form

  Too often, the memoirs of celebrity parents and celebrity kids are self-indulgent drivel written more for those of us who want to live vicariously than to learn anything particularly useful. So I was apprehensive when I picked up a copy of Afterbirth: Stories You Won’t Read in a Parenting Magazine, the newest series of parenting essays to come out of Hollywood. Phewwww. Read More... Posted May 12 2009, 10:30 AM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: books, funny, parenting books, afterbirth, post partum, Jeanne Sager, review, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, Moon Unit Zappa, Zappa, Dani Klein Modisett

• Should You Take Your Bump on a Date?

  I'm trying to figure out why the book Postcards From Your Bump: A Chick's Guide to Getting to Know the Baby in Your Belly bothers me so much. Is it the "duh!" factor? Of course your child's personality is forming in utero and so what's on the inside is what you get on the outside. Or is it the whole "bonding" thing in the first place. I sometimes wonder if we've overblown the notion of bonding and that some of us don't even recognize having actually bonded with our newborns. (I mean, where was the confetti drop? No one sounded the siren! Who issues the official certificate declaring mother and child "bonded"?) Or maybe it's this piece of advice: take your bump on a date. (Should you bring flowers?)   Read More... Posted May 11 2009, 05:27 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: books, baby bump, postcards from the bump, bonding with baby

• Chat with Judy Blume!

  If you were once a teenage girl (and I'd dare say at least half of Babble readers once were), chances are Judy Blume got you through a tough spot.  Heck, if you were an elementary school boy, you might have spent an afternoon or two with her books that have nothing to do with PMS and plenty to do with the playground.  And if you ever sat, like Margaret, wondering, is someone there, we have good news Read More... Posted May 06 2009, 10:02 AM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: children's books, books, reading, literature, authors, kids books, Jeanne Sager, Judy Blume

• Is Kindle Coming to a School Near You?

  The Amazon Kindle has made the jump to academia, signing deals with several textbook publishers to make their materials available via the electronic device.  It's limited to college at the moment, but when you look at how quickly Kindle has spread (from its introduction in 2007 to its move into institutions of learning in 2009), I can't imagine it will be long before the paper bag covered textbooks are a thing of the past. Pretty soon, our kids could be book-free. Read More... Posted May 05 2009, 04:30 PM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: education, books, reading, schools, Jeanne Sager, Kindle 2, textbooks, Kindle

• Book for Gay Parents' Kids Creates an Uproar

  I love how Fox News fairly and I dare say balancedly (is that even a word?) laid out the news that there's a new book out there for kids of lesbian moms who used a sperm donor to conceive: "Gay Sex Education Book Targets Children as Young as 2" Gets your dander up, doesn't it? Oh my sweet henry, they're trying to teach our two-year-olds to have sex! And not just the missionary position but you know, the naughty, we don't that in the heartland kind of s-e-x.  Except they're not. Read More... Posted May 05 2009, 12:26 PM by JeanneSager with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: children's books, books, homophobia, gay, gay parenting, Lesbian Moms, gay parents, surrogacy, sperm donor, Jeanne Sager

• Ten of the Best Lines from Kiddie Lit

  Be it a movie or a book, there's always one line that stands out in the good ones. Hence that dorky guy at the office who answers everything question with a movie quote. So what's the kiddie lit version of "I'll be back?" The Associated Press got a series of celebrity parents to dish on their favorites,but we were suprised which of our favorites were skipped. So we're bringing them up here. Read More... Posted Apr 30 2009, 04:27 PM by JeanneSager with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: children's books, books, celebrity parents, Dr. Seuss, Ramona, polar express, Jeanne Sager, reading to kids, Eloise

• Hooray for Book Banners - No Really

  There's been plenty of talk about the books that short-sighted Americans have been running around trying to keep out of the hands of their precious innocent little angels this month. And, as usual, I got that clenchy feeling atop my chest when I saw the list of top ten books Americans wanted banned last year - that "hooray, I showed them, I actually READ some of those books!" kind of feeling. Read More... Posted Apr 27 2009, 01:33 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: books, reading, banned books, Jeanne Sager, and tango makes three, reading to kids

• Get Ready, Get Set, Read With Celebrities!

  It might be April and frigid in upstate New York (come on sun), but the summer reading campaigns are already going full bore.  This year the big names in books are booking celebrities to convince our kids that all the cool kids are doing it . . . reading I mean. Read More... Posted Apr 21 2009, 06:29 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: books, reading, summer, summer reading, Scholastic, Jeanne Sager, reading to kids, Reading is Fundamental, Speakaboos, RIF

• Amy Winehouse Writing a Children's Book

  The best word to describe my daughter's library? Eclectic. We have the bunnies saying goodnight to their room on through to stories about funky jazz cats.  But here's where I may have to draw the line: Amy Winehouse says she'll be writing a children's book about her life.  Done sputtering? Read More... Posted Apr 18 2009, 02:30 PM by JeanneSager with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: music, children's books, books, reading, bizarre, amy winehouse, Jeanne Sager, reading to kids, role model

• Book of the Week: Retro Round-Up!

  In the fifties and sixties, illustration was everywhere -- from magazine ads to movie credits – and judging from April’s picture books, the hyper-stylized designs of that era are back in a big way. Here are four new books to read your child between the three-martini lunch and the Ed Sullivan show. – Gwynne Watkins     Moon Man (first printed in 1967) by Tomi Ungerer Don't be surprised if Toni Ungerer's illustrations seem familiar; among myriad projects in the fifties, sixties and seventies, the French artist contributed animations to Sesame Street and created the Dr. Strangelove poster. He also wrote dozens of children’s books, long out of print in the US, which are now being re-released by art press Phaidon. Moon Man’s vivid colors and dark, inky backgrounds are rare in contemporary children’s books... Read More... Posted Apr 17 2009, 09:00 AM by editors with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: books, reading and literacy, book of the week, retro roundup

• Where Have All the Trees Gone?

  Arbor Day is coming up fast, and nothing gets kids in the mood for fun better than a big mystery. Babble took a look at Oliver Jeffers' new nature-inspired novel for little bears. Read More... Posted Apr 06 2009, 11:36 AM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: books, reviews, green, spring, Jeanne Sager, reading to kids, planting, Arbor Day, Oliver Jeffers, The Great Paper Caper, trees

• Book of the Week: The Creator of "Wonder Pets" Does Some Rhyming

  Josh Selig  -- the brain behind the preschool hit "Wonder Pets" and the weird-and-wonderful "Oobi" -- doesn't have kids of his own. What he does have is one of the most beautifully childlike imaginations to be found outside an actual child. Take his new book, A Book For You. It's a collection of small rhymes, nothing fancy, that brings to mind a bygone era of children's poetry: A.A. Milne's When We Were Very Young, Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. The book is handmade, printed on thick paper with watercolor illustrations by Stephanie Cleaver. It looks like a labor of love, and it is; when we asked Josh to talk to us about his inspiration, here's what he said: Read More... Posted Mar 27 2009, 10:01 AM by editors with | with no comments Filed under: books, books for children, childrens books, Wonder Pets, book of the week

• Ready for Easter? Peter Rabbit's Gone Green

  Part of getting ready for Easter in my house means stocking up on books for the basket to take up as much room as possible (leaving space for a few jellybeans, but just a few). This year, you can go green for Easter with a new edition of the beloved bunny books from Beatrix Potter, reissued in a "naturally better" format. Read More... Posted Mar 25 2009, 12:24 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: children's books, books, environment, easter, earth day, green, Jeanne Sager, Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit, reading to kids

• Back to the Third Grade for This 71-Year-Old

  He stands more than a head taller than his classmates, but what really makes Alferd Williams stand out as a member of the third grade at Edison Elementary School is his age. He's seventy-one. The son of a sharecropper, Williams headed to elementary school two years ago when he was sixty-eight. He started back in first grade, the last grade he attended before dropping out as a child in Missouri to help his family make a living. Read More... Posted Mar 22 2009, 12:26 PM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: education, school, books, reading, schools, literacy, Jeanne Sager, summer school, learning to read

• Harry Potter Book Sells for $19K - Too Much?

  I love me some Hogwarts. But I don't know that I could ever love a children's book this much.  A rare copy of the first book in the Harry Potter series - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone here in the states, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in author J.K. Rowling's native England, has sold for $19,120.  Read More... Posted Mar 20 2009, 05:34 PM by JeanneSager with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: children's books, books, harry potter, reading, j.k. rowling, auction, Jeanne Sager, reading to kids, hogwarts

• Barack Obama to Pen Book for the Kids

  Barack Obama doesn’t have to worry about getting a job after he leaves office in four or eight years, depending. He’s already sold his next book for a pretty penny. His next book, which has bestseller written all over it, will be a “youth oriented version of his published memoir,” Dreams of My Father. Yeah, he’ll be doing just fine. Last year alone he received about $2.5 million in royalties for his book/s. In January, before he took office, he agreed to deliver the ...   Read More... Posted Mar 19 2009, 10:29 PM by SunnyChanel with | with no comments Filed under: books, barack obama, books for kids, dreams of my father

• Kate Gosselin Dreamt Of A Husband and Children - Did You?

  Christianity Today has an excerpt from Kate Gosselin's book "Multiple Blessings": "I'll say it again: Like most little girls, I had dreamed of the day when I would meet my husband, have children, and settle down to live a happily-ever-after kind of life." Is that what "most little girls" dream of? Getting married and having kids? Read More... Posted Mar 18 2009, 12:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: books, religion, marriage, family, retro, God, Brett Singer, jon and kate plus 8, kate gosselin, jon gosselin, jon and kate, 1950's, multiple blessings, jon and kate plus eight, traditional values

• Book of the Week: 7 Great Pop-Up Books

  The Very Hungry Caterpillar Pop-Up Book by Eric Carle                                Ages 3 and Up If you already own a version of this Eric Carle classic, you’re probably thinking, “How much better can the pop-up book really be?” To answer your question, imagine listening to music on those dinky, white earbuds that came with your iPod. Now, imagine listening to music on those noise-canceling, tonally balanced, acoustically correct, hardcore headphones. This is The Very Hungry Caterpillar in stereo. For added fun, little pull-tabs and wheels allow you to move the caterpillar around as he eats his way through everything in sight. It’s hard to improve upon a classic, but this one is worth a read. Read More... Posted Mar 13 2009, 12:00 PM by editors with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: books

• Kids Get in on the Man on Wire Story

  Since the adult version won an Academy Award last month, the buzz about Man on Wire has hit a fever pitch. Want to share it with your kids?  Scholastic has adapted the Caldecott Award-winning children's book about Philippe Petit's tight rope walk between the towers into a movie just for them. Read More... Posted Mar 13 2009, 08:28 AM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: children's books, books, DVD, caldecott medal, Scholastic, Jeanne Sager, review, dvd review, reading to kids, movies for kids, Philippe Petit, Man on Wire

• Mr. Popper's Taking His Penguins to the Movies!

  Third graders everywhere are about to get a chance to cheat on their book reports. Come on - you know that's what happens when they push a classic children's book onto the big screen.  In this case, they made a good choice - because before there was the March of the Penguins and the Madagascar penguins, there was Mr. Popper and his brood of waddling birds. Read More... Posted Mar 12 2009, 08:02 AM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: Movies, children's books, books, animals, penguins, Jeanne Sager, reading to kids, books as movies, Mr. Popper's Penguins, exploring, adventure, book-to-movie, Antarctica

• What Do You Really Read to Your Kids?

  A recent British survey found that 65 percent of respondents admitted to claiming they had read classic books when, in fact, they had not. The biggest fib-provokers? George Orwell's 1984 (42 percent) and Tolstoy's War and Peace (31 percent). Other books we like to say we've read include James Joyce's Ulysses (25 percent) and the Bible (24 percent). I read 1984 in junior high school and attempted Ulysses for all of five minutes, which I'll freely admit to anyone who asks (no one ever does, though). I'm never tempted to lie about books I've read because I love to read and am proud of the books I have read.  Well, I'm proud of the adult books I've read. Read More... Posted Mar 11 2009, 05:00 PM by KeriF with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: books, reading, Keri Fisher