This is National Cookie Cutter Week, reminding me that the winter holiday season is fast approaching. It just doesn’t feel like the holidays until I’ve…
Today marks the anniversary of the Broadway debut of the musical Annie. As a kid, I was introduced to this scrappy orphan not through the…
Heather Tomasello has a few suggestions today about some new science books.
March is Women’s History Month, an especially appropriate time for you and your children to visit several websites that explore the dynamic roles that women…
Tomorrow is Monopoly Day, celebrating the world ‘s best-selling board game. Since its development during the height of the American Depression in 1934 by Pennsylvanian…
This is International Friendship Week. What can be more thrilling than receiving a postcard from a friend from another country thousands of miles away, with…
On this day in 1889 Nellie Bly, a twenty-five year old reporter for The New York World received a hero’s welcome in Jersey City. A…
Today is National Whiner’s Day — sadly, often an all too appropriate name for the day after Christmas, when sometimes even the most thoughtful presents…
Heather Tomasello has some tasty new books that are the perfect meal for this week.
It’s the beginning of National Children’s Book Week, and Heather Tomasello has some fuel to get us going.