These adventures are great books featuring boy detectives. These young crime solvers will entertain and intrigue the hard to please readers between nine and twelve. Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements is a mystery with Ted Hammond as the crime solver. Ted is the only sixth grade student in a Nebraska town’s ...
Ah, the joys of raising little boys! So many giggles over p-o-o-p. When I finally gave up fighting my kids’ fascination with poop, I was surprised to find some hilarious books on the subject. Children’s books about poop can be gross and funny, as well as informative and educational. They are sure to encourage potty ...
Mysteries are what started me reading as a young adult, and mysteries are what started me writing in my twenties. Mysteries for young adults can serve as delightful distractions. They can challenge the mind while entertaining, and engross the average reader like few other genres can. Here are ten tips on how to write mysteries ...
Today many children’s surgeries are done on an outpatient basis and your little patient can be home the very same day. For the first day or so, your child may be tired, sore or sleepy from pain medicine and so on but then they begin to feel better. After many outpatient surgeries, such as a ...
There are many reasons to check out the world of audiobooks. Maybe you are a slow reader, maybe your child struggles with remembering what they read and comprehension, maybe you commute to work or have a big road trip ahead of you. Whatever your reason, audiobooks can be a positive answer to any of the ...
While there is no doubt that more and more adults and kids too are finding information and reading online, there’s still a place in our homes and in our hands for magazines. I enjoy finding decorating tips, recipes, craft ideas, biographies, technology reviews and health and fitness tips at my fingertips and on my whim ...
Do you have a board game that is falling apart at the seams, missing pieces, or downright mutilated? Quality-made games for kids have gotten increasingly shoddy in construction and many are short lived. Even those games my children enjoy and could last years fall apart long before we are disinterested. (With 4 kids, I think ...
