STL Mom

We've read a few fun picture books in the last week or so: The Girl and the Elephant, by Nicole de Cock, begins, "This is the girl...

Ah, the last book. I'm sad that it is over. However, I read the book so quickly, in order to find out what happened, that I am already p...

My son is a train fanatic, and he will read almost anything about trains. However, as the parent who has to read stories over and over and o...

While I grew up reading the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, they are not books that I kept and re-read over and over. So I was surprised by th...

Who was the biggest newsmaker in the U.S. in 1938? Roosevelt? Hitler? No, it was a racehorse named Seabiscuit . Laura Hillenbrand wrote ...

Do you ever read a book that seems to be written just for your child? I don't mean a personalized book with your kid's name and birt...

I have a shelf in my kitchen where I store my library books. I noticed that I have a rather odd collection this week: Stalin: A Biography ...

I loved "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield, which I read for my book group . I probably shouldn't be surprised that I...

My daughter's 7 th birthday party had a mermaid theme, so not surprisingly she received several books about mermaids, fairies, and unic...

I bought "Adele & Simon" by Barbara McClintock for my daughter as a Christmas present, after seeing a good review in the New Y...

...but instead of singing " Hallelujah " I'm thinking, "Eh, is that it?" Previously I blogged about Sara Douglass...

I recently read "Midlife Crisis at 30: How the Stakes Have Changed for a New Generation -- and What to Do About It" by Lia Macko ...