Editor’s Pick: “The Drama Years” by Haley Kilpatrick (Free Press, 2012)
Drama. It occupies the lives of most tween and teen girls in today's highly competitive landscape, at a time in their lives when everything seems to be constantly changing: from their own biology to technology to fashion to relationships. Parents
Editor’s Pick: “I Am Eleven”
At any given time in the world, 120 million people are experiencing life as an 11-year-old. The gulf between childhood and teenage years is one that has been depicted, for better or worse, by well known fiction from "Lord of
Editor’s Pick: “The Next 1000 Days” by Nikki McClure (Sasquatch Books, 2014)
Even with all of the thousands of photographs that modern parents take of their children, many everyday moments still hold fast only in memory, never to be relived. Olympia paper cutting artist, Nikki McClure, seeks to recreate these images, and
Inspire Her Mind
My daughter loves math. She must have fallen quite far from the tree, because I began to hate math as it got progressively difficult in school, although I did gain an appreciation for it in college. I love the fact
Editor’s Pick: “50 Children” by Steven Pressman (HarperCollins, 2014)
Real life Americans Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, grandparents of "50 Children"'s author's wife, were living an abundant and charmed life, far away from the horrors of war torn Europe in 1939. With a successful law practice and two healthy children
Editor’s Pick: “Larry Loves Portland!” by John Skewes (Little Bigfoot, 2014)
If there's one thing we Northwesterners love, it's our bridges. And our public art and gardens. And our roses. OK, so there's a lot to love in Portland and Southwest Washington. Which is why John Skewes created a series of
Editor’s Pick: Dabbawalla Bags
Colored pencils, check. Scissors and protractor, check. Lunch bags that are both stylish and utilitarian? Dabbawalla check! Seattle sisters Susan Givens and Carol Mack created a product line of lunch bags and small backpacks specifically for pre-school and early elementary
Editor’s Pick: “I Got Schooled” by M. Night Shyamalan (Simon & Schuster, 2013)
He’s best known as one of the highest grossing screenwriters and directors in the world, responsible for the 1999 cultural phenomenon, “The Sixth Sense” and many other blockbusters. But aside from M. Night Shyamalan’s professional pursuits and his wife and
Editor’s Pick: “We’ll Always Have Paris” by Jennifer Coburn (Sourcebooks, 2014)
Jennifer fears death. Understandable, since as a college student she had watched her father die prematurely from cancer. Years later, her urgency to fully live leads to a trip to Paris with her 8-year-old daughter—a means to fill her daughter’s
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