Books
Truthfully, I bought this book more for myself than for my tots, but fortunately, my older daughter who is almost 8 enjoyed it just as much as I did (the suggested target age group is grades 2 – 6). In it, author and illustrator Elizabeth Matthews gives a narrative history of Coco Chanel beginning with [...]
This unique coloring book is the perfect canvas for a budding fashionista. Its creators Carol Chu and Lulu Chang list the age range as 12 and up, but it’s never too early to get your tot’s fashion education going. With illustrations from over 50 designers, including household names like Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Alexander [...]
My friend’s daughter has just started up a great new book blog. The name? Book Snob, of course! At the tender age of nine, she’s breaking onto the literary scene with a critical eye, a sense of humor, and just plain good taste (a true Snob essential). Each week, this voracious reader will post a review [...]
No matter how far technology advances, some things from the past will always remain special. Case in point? Paper dolls. They have been around for centuries, beginning in Asian religious rituals and evolving all the way into the wildly popular children’s paper dolls of the 1920’s. The reason they remain relevant is because of how [...]
The Books to Bed pajama and book sets are some of the best gifts for tots. Why? Because when a gift can be given to a child that also helps a parent, it’s a win for everyone. These get tots excited for their bedtimes (when does that ever happen?) and engage them in reading. I [...]
The holidays are a challenging balancing act – you want to spoil your tots but you’ve also got to set limits. They get so overexcited that it can be hard to keep them under control. I’ve heard that if you video your tots during tantrums and then show them the footage, they’ll be surprised by [...]
