I'm not sure how many kids asctually ask what is Labor Day? It's become synonymous with the unofficial end of summer, a three-day weekend, barbecues, and yeah, some pretty great sales . So much so, we kind of blow past it without the tri…
As a big audiobook fan -- and supporter of indie booksellers -- I am excited to see the big promotion that Libro.fm i s offering this month to honor their 10th anniversary. If you sign up as a new member right now, you'll get 3 audiobook…
"Activism is the power to spark the compassion and the empathy of the whole world," says the young narrator of The Artivist. the stunning and important new children's book from architect turned Disney Imagineer turned best-selling author…
We've all been seeing our social feeds fill up with amazing "OMG THIS IS FREE RIGHT NOW!" posts from friends, and it's hard to keep track of it all! Between the online story time for kids, the Club Quarantine virtual dance parties , the …
We recently discovered the coolest gift idea when our friend Tina Roth Eisenberg at Swiss Miss shared a Favorite Things Gift Box she received from her friend Jessica Kausen. Jessica filled a box with a few of her own favorite things (no …
This is my favorite recurring post every year on Cool Mom Picks, in which we collect all the best children's books of 2017 lists from all over the internet -- from big publications like the New York Times to our favorite indie bloggers w…
I was one of those parents who insisted that I'd raise the kind of kids who would play fun, screen-free car games on our family road trips, or perhaps watching the world whiz by while asking intelligent questions about all the sites and …
April is National Poetry Month, so we're having some fun adding poetry to our bedtime reading routine. Of course, any reading out loud to my kids is good for growing brains, but kids seem to have a special love for poetry--even before th…
Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny were among the regular read-aloud books in my home for a very long time. So I am thrilled for her old and new fans alike that Goodnight Songs , a treasure trove of poems from the late Margaret Wise Br…
We've got tech in the bag--get it?--with a few of our favorite picks from the last week, just in case you missed them. And of course, we're serving up the big iPhone 5 news! 1. These stylish bags are utterly amazing. Wait till you read h…
Black History Month is rolling to a close, but it's never to late to share new learning resources with your kids. Along with some great books, movies and music picks that honor African American culture and history, I have recently come u…
I love reading books out loud . They really make the stories come alive in a fun and vibrant way. But I'll admit I'm no Meryl Streep. Know who is a Meryl Streep? Meryl Streep. And now she's narrating one of my favorite children's stories…
My daughter is turning 3 next month and is starting to outgrow her naps! I am trying to enforce quiet time on the days she won't nap, and someone gave me the idea of letting her listen to audio books as her quiet time activity. I was hop…
After reading the encyclopedia of bedtime stories, singing four rounds of Twinkle Twinkle, and then providing my kids with snuggles, kisses, and several glasses of water, I go from sweetly shushing to sleep to bribing and begging them th…
CD audiobooks, or what I still call " books on tape ," are my secret weapon against boredom in the car. Our newest gem is Tell Me a Story 3: Women of Wonder which follows in the footsteps of its much loved predecessors, Tell Me a Story a…