Author Carl Norac’s storybook-music CD set weaves classic jazz recordings from the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington with a beautifully illustrated glossy book of magical prose.

Bingo wants to explore in the woods while the family is camping, but Ladybug Girl has the difficult job of keeping him close to camp.

In the fifth installment of Gustafer Yellowgold’s journey, the yellow cartoonish character is celebrating a year’s worth of Earth holidays. Year in the Day has the former sun resident who lives in the Minnesota woodland celebrating a year’s worth of Earth holidays by creating his own traditions. Morgan Taylor created Gustafer Yellowgold in 2005 and […]

Anne Lamott’s “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year” reminds new moms that it gets better after the first few months.

How about some “Bluegrass for Breakfast”? This album — full of banjos, fiddles and acoustic guitar — is high energy, catchy and educational. What’s the longest word in the English language? “Antidisestablishmentarianism,” of course. The Okee Dokee Brothers helpfully point out that it has 28 letters, more than the alphabet! And then another fantastic feat: […]

If you’ve ever read to your kids at all, you know that children’s authors tend to take a whole lot of liberty with their rhymes. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Margaret Wise Brown, but rhyming moon with … moon? I call shenanigans. Enter The Seven Silly Eaters, by Mary Ann Hoberman. Both […]