This year’s Children’s Book Week is less than 50 days away. Mark your calendar for the week of May 2 – 8 when the official Children’s Book Week takes place. Events are held around the country at local bookstores but you can host your own celebration, at home or at school, if you can’t make [...]
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5 Dec
The Best Books of 2010
I love this time of year – when the “best of” lists come out for everything imaginable. Since my son’s reading on his own now and selecting books that are more than 32 pages in length, I haven’t stayed as current as I would’ve liked to this past year as far as picture books go. [...]
26 Sep
Banned Books Week
I grew up in the library. I don’t remember how often we went, but I can still picture the white shelves, the children’s area and the YA section that I eventually “grew into.” All of the adventures I was able to experience by simply picking up a book helped create who I am today: curious, [...]
26 Dec
Progressive Parenting
Parenting styles vary from house to house and from generation to generation. Our children learn about new things and ideas every day, teaching us about concepts that never even existed when we were their age. So much information is out there to process and download, that it’s amazing we have time for much else. I [...]
28 Nov
Twitter and The Fail Whale
That’s what this book might as well be called: How have I never heard of this before? Happy Healthy Hip Parenting Peace Begins in the Home
15 Nov
Happy Healthy Hip Holiday Gift Guide
It’s that time of year, once again. Check out these hot products, hip toys and haute clothes for the lucky people on your gift list. play Prudence Owl Doll by blabla BMW 3-series convertible (for kids) A-Frame Doll House Build Your Own Robot Baby Giraffe Teething Toy Turner’s Tunnel Magnetic Nature Theatre House of Cards [...]
24 Oct
Where the Wild Things Are
My son adores books and anything having to do with reading or writing. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak was one of the first books we added to his home library. We also managed to build up his DVD collection and luckily, many of the same videos that kept his attention then still [...]
19 Jun
Father Knows Best
Father’s Day is right around the corner. We always buy books for each other in our family, and I especially enjoyed David Lyon’s book, Father Knows Best, filled with hundreds of quotes from celebrity dads, sports figures and every day heroes known as Papa, Dad of Old Man. The Happy Healthy Hip Parenting bookstore is [...]
18 Mar
Giveaway: Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult is a prolific writer who does a great deal of research on the often-controversial subjects she deals with in her novels. First introduced to me with The Pact: A Love Story, Jodi quickly became my favorite author and has not let me down, publishing a new book every year. All of her books [...]
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