Last week, I recommended a book I’d just finished reading–The Read-Aloud Handbook. I must confess that in our house, we read A LOT to our 3-year old. He gets 5-10 books read to him each day, sometimes totaling more than an hour of reading. We have recently given chapter books a try and he’ll actually [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation, Children on January 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just finished a book that I have to recommend to every parent and educator. It’s called The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. The first half of the book talks about the importance of books, libraries, and of course, reading aloud to children (even after they’ve learned to read themselves), while the second half is [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation, Children on December 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My mother gave me a little book called The Better World Shopping Guide. It’s written by Ellis Jones, a professor of sociology at UC Davis. It’s not really a book, but rather a collection of tables that rate different manufacturers of products based on their corporate behavior. Corporations have the ability to affect millions of [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation, Environment, Personal Care Products on November 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
I recently checked out Big Green Purse from the library because it had good reviews on Amazon. When I picked up the book, I skimmed the Index and saw that, not surprisingly, it followed the typical formula of most other “green” books out there–a chapter on personal-care products, one on food, one for cleaning products, [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation, Environment on September 15th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I love this book. I think it should be required reading for every American.
In Defense of Food is somewhat of a follow up to Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. That book examined how our food is produced, this one examines how we should eat based upon that. It’s a harsh look at the typical [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation, Food and Nutrition, Organic on July 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
Over our trip, my husband and I read several books. Here is a brief summary of some of them.
Growing Up Green - This book is Volume 2 in the Green This! series by Deirdre Imus (vol 1 was a book I really enjoyed–Greening Your Cleaning). I have to say that there [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation on June 8th, 2008 | No Comments »
I just finished reading the book Louder Than Words. It’s written by Jenny McCarthy about her son’s autism. It’s less than 200 pages and a very easy read. By easy, I mean quick. It’s actually not that easy to read–I cried through the first few chapters. I think every mother [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation, Children on April 10th, 2008 | No Comments »
Dr. Alan Greene, a pediatrician and professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, has written a great book called Raising Baby Green, about how to make the best choices for your child and home. His book is organized into chapters covering pregnancy, delivery, the nursery, kitchen, bathroom, and garden and how the things you [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation, Children, Environment on January 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
It starts the day your baby is born…… vaccinations. The Hepatitis B shot is given at birth, then booster doses follow. Why do infants need this vaccine so soon in life? Isn’t Hep B an STD after all, most frequently transmitted through sexual contact or tainted needles? While I don’t disagree [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation, Children, Vaccines on January 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
6: Books for kids!
Children get so many toys for the holidays, but what about books? Foster an early love of reading and learning by building a good sized library for your child. These are some of my son’s current favorites: If I Built a Car, The Little Pea, Not a Box, [...]
Filed under: Book recommendation on December 7th, 2007 | No Comments »