What a week we had in Media Reviews! Keep reading for a great new interview series on Families.com bloggers, children’s picture books, podcasts, parenting advice, and lots of great fiction!
Lauri shared a classic children’s story, The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. Read about the unique illustrations in this fun story that won the Caldecott award in 1963.
Tristi interviewed Camille Marchetta on Writing for Television. Read what she has to say on co-authoring and the differences in script writing and writing novels.
In Read Books for Charity!, Tristi explains a new promotion from Harlequin books.
If you love coffee, don’t miss Lauri’s review of I Love Coffee! by Susan Zimmer. You’ll discover new ways of brewing coffee and over a hundred recipes for delicious drinks.
Tristi reviewed The Whole Truth, a Christian suspense novel by James Scott Bell. She finished it in two sittings, which I think might be the best recommendation of all!
Nurture by Nature is a different kind of parenting book based on the sixteen Myers-Briggs personality types. The book talks about the strengths and challenges of raising each of these types of children.
LDS novel The White Bedouin by George Potter blends Biblical times with modern mystery. Heaven Scent is a promising novel from first time novelist Rebecca Cornish Talley about a high school senior facing loses in her family.
Tristi enjoyed the historic novel Lady of the Roses by Sandra Worth. The books is set during The War of the Roses and involves love, politics, war, and torture. Tristi also interviewed Sandra Worth about the challenges of writing historical fiction.
Have you ever wondered about the bloggers here at Families.com? Tristi started a great new series of interviews with our very own bloggers. Read the first interview, with Valorie Delp here.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life chronicles author Barbara Kingsolver’s family as they committed to a year of growing their own food and to local food buying. It’s an important book with some shocking truths about our food industry, but also a lot of hope.
Lauri reviewed the Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, a short podcast that really does make grammar fun.
And finally, read about The Lightning Thief, a book that has Lauri’s boys reading and learning about Greek mythology.