Mom on the edge.
So, remember how I was hollering with love for Matthew Cordell’s HELLO! HELLO! last month? I have given this book to people, forced it on people, talked about how much I love it. But you know what happens when you turn off electronic devices? I’ll tell you. Your kids have no idea how electronic devices [...]
Our Little Free Library has been getting some press! Telly Halkias wrote an opinion piece in the Portland Press Herald. The local free paper, The Sentry, featured us in a great article. And the fabulous Carter Higgins wrote about us on Design Mom! Thanks so much to all our supporters! Stop on by and I’ll [...]
Do you know about Little Free Library? The first time I heard about it, I had an immediate dream to have a Little Free Library of my own. The problem is that we have a house we’re constantly tearing apart, and four kids hanging from us needing some sort of parenting, and all those other [...]
Today we fete Zuzu, who is now 4 (and also celebrate this fun brief time when, until August, we have kids who are 2, 4, 6, and 8 years old). We are making cherry cupcakes today, since apparently cherry cupcakes mean birthday. For her birthday dinner she requested: meatballs broccoli, for the people who want [...]
Annoying thing that toddlers and preschoolers do: “We are playing house,” says Zuzu. I won’t even get into what this means for how they think I do my housekeeping. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fworldofjulie.com%2F%3Fp%3D3408′; addthis_title = ‘Book+movers’; addthis_pub = ”;
Jonah Lehrer and I are on Brain Burps About Books today! Ok, ok, so we’re not on at the same time: Katie is interviewing Jonah Lehrer (author of Imagine: How Creativity Works), and (separately) I do a review of Nursery Rhyme Comics. I do think it’s perfect that Katie picked this review out of the [...]
Check out the Brain Burps About Books podcast today to hear my review of Same, Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw. I so, so love this story of pen pals, one in the U.S., and one in India. They compare and contrast their lives and cultures, and realize that they’re not all that different, [...]
We don’t really vary too much from our Christmas favorites here. I still love Christmas in Noisy Village best because it has earnest lines like “This cooky smell is the kind I like!” and “I wish Christmas would come oftener, don’t you?” I’m sure there’s a place for dinosaurs dressed as Santa*, and we do [...]
Ok, so for the past month I have been sort of secretly (well, secretly to World of Julie readers) participating in PiBoIdMo. PiBoWHAT? PiBoIdMo is Picture Book Idea Month, a challenge dreamed up by the fabulous Tara Lazar. You come up with roughly one picture book idea a day, so at the end of the [...]
This is sort of a Children’s Book of the Week post. It’s high time I recommended the Barefoot Books podcast on here, because it’s such a lifesaver for us. You probably know the publisher Barefoot Books — they do a lot of folk tales and fairy tales, all very good. Well, they have a podcast [...]
