Another great roundup of books from Children’s librarianista Susie Heimbach. In this clip, she shares some spooky and fun books to get kids in the Halloween spirit. Why? Because Halloween isn’t just about getting amped up on sugar – its also about sharing slightly scary (yet age appropriate) stories with your kids. Susie has some great pix for your book lovers and early readers.
Leave it to an evolutionary biologist to pen a children’s book that describes the “magic of reality”. In the video he says that its aimed for kids around twelve-years-old, perhaps younger. Along with these beautiful illustrations, this will certainly find a place on many a coffee table and bookshelf. Every chapter is a question. Questions like, “Why do bad things happen?” or “What is the Sun?”. He talks about myths from around the world that have explained the answer to that question, then weighs in with what science has to say – and its usually an equally if not more wonderful answer than those given us by the poets of the past.
Reminds me of the They Might be Giants song, “Science is Real“.
This is the second in a series of videos with children’s librarian extraordinaire Susie Heimbach, from the Mulberry St. branch of the New York Public Library. In this video, she talks about six great books that are perfect to share with young aspiring astronauts in your life.
Here’s a list of the books from this clip (Amazon links):
This is the first in a series of videos I shot with children’s librarian extraordinaire Susie Heimbach. You can normally find her sharing great books with kids of all ages at the Mulberry St. branch of the New York Public Library. She has an infectious enthusiasm for books and reading and impacts countless kids who pass through her library. Hooray for librarians! In this clip, she talks about five great books to get kids in the mood to go back to school.
Here’s a list of the books from this clip (Amazon links):
I have been enjoying watching the progress of this kid’s book make its way through Kickstarter. Written by Amber Jones, an award-winning concierge who knows a thing or two about how to show visitors the best sights – and smells – of NYC. Her scratch-and-sniff tour of NYC includes many of the smells that are all too familiar: Garbage, Pizza, Hot dogs, Sewer steam, Fish, Horse Manure, Shish-kabobs, Smoke, Bagels and more.
As a Kickstarter backer, I was given access to some preview pages and can share them with you. Jones has covered all the key New York points – from the depths of the subway to a sidewalk cafe in Little Italy. The book is a feast for the eyes and will certainly be for the nose – IF it makes its funding. Jones is still $3,200 shy of her goal of $20,000 to fund the first print run with only a week to go.
Tim Probert’s illustrations are great on the eyes. I hope we all get to smell them.
Hopefully, she’ll get another last round of momentum. This is a fun book that I hope gets a chance to see the light of day and the dark of kid’s nostrils!
It’s not for the kids, but parents and non-parents will appreciate this zombie take on Pat the Bunny. Perhaps this is another sign of the impending Zombie-pocolypse that a beloved children’s character has been recast as a Zombie. It’s never too soon to educate the young about Zombies and their habits. Still, I got a good laugh out of this one.
Kudos to Aaron Zimm and Kave Soofi for a “dead-on” parody.
Why read in bed when you can read your bed? Turn the pages when you feel a bit chilly or too warm. I love this design by Yusuke Suzuki that opens up a ton of possibilities for storytime.
Any self respecting dad blogger must to tip their hat to the awesome Geek Dads over at Wired. I’ve been a big fan of their blog for longer than I’ve been a dad (sort of). Looking forward to digging into some fun projects from their print version. Amazon link below.
If you liked the Twitter feed and the Tumblr, you can now get the hysterical gems of fatherly wisdom of Justin Halpern’s dad in book form.
They are also making this sh*t into a TV show, which I would think would be a terrible idea except for the fact that William Shatner’s on board, which makes it genius.
Even the Post are in on this dadblogger thing now. Jeremy Olshan, a post reporter since 2004, and father of twins is the new NY Post dadblogger. As a fellow dad-in-the-city, I’m looking forward to reading his stuff.
Here’s his first post where he revists the kids of child rearing experts to see how they turned out. (via Daddytypes)
