Tara Lazar came on the scene with her fun and zany book, The Monstore. She is continuing the fun and humor in two more books to be released later this year, I Thought This Was a Bear Book, andLittle Red Gliding Hood. With these two, Tara has proven to be queen of the fairy tale [...]
Evil is not without its attractions. Think about all your favorite stories or films. There is always the character corrupted by temptation. Whether that temptation is fueled by greed for power, money, or some other object of desire, it is the strength of the protagonist that determines whether he will be a force for [...]
Let children figure things out for themselves. That’s what the experts say. According to a new study from the Journal of Child and Family Studies, toddlers who have greater autonomy to perform tasks on their own showed a type of higher thinking.This may not come as a surprise to most parents, but it is certainly a good [...]
When Susan Cain first went to sleepaway camp, her mother packed her a suitcase full of books. Reading together – everyone engrossed in his or her own volume – was her family’s idea of quality time. “Reading was the primary group activity,” Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t [...]
