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Relax!
Every weekend, Mom2Mom offers some new ways to relax with your kids.
Today, the children's staff at Quail Ridge Books & Music offers these new books:
CARL’S SUMMER VACATION (hard cover, $12.95, FSG) by Alexandra Day
The beloved Rottweiler returns, leading young Madeleine on a perfect summer day at the lake. Day’s oil illustrations are gorgeous. Who wouldn’t want Carl as a baby sitter? YOU’LL know why they can’t stay awake through the fireworks. For ages 3 and up.
SAVVY (hard cover, $16.99, Penguin) by Ingrid Law
For the Beaumont family, reaching adolescence comes with a special gift —or curse: your 'savvy'. As Mibs turns 13, she's sure her life-altering gift will take a form which will help her hospitalized father. Her desperation sets her, her siblings, & two unsuspecting neighbor kids on a bus ride like no other. SAVVY may have playful homages to THE WIZARD OF OZ, but it's a truly original & delightful coming of age story. For ages 10 and up.
SHEEP BLAST OFF (hard cover, $15, Houghton Mifflin) by Nancy Shaw
Those adorable, hapless, adventuring sheep are back – this time on an inadvertent ride into outer space! Do you know SHEEP IN A JEEP, or SHEEP OUT TO EAT? These goofy, rhyming adventures never put parents to sleep reading them. An added plus: they are wonderful early readers when the kids are a little older. For ages 2 and up.The earlier sheep books are available in board book forms.
EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM
(paperback, board, hard cover; $4.99-14.99, Penguin) by Janet & Allan Ahlberg
Do you want a fun read-aloud? A ‘hunt and find’ for younger children? This is the perfect rhyming introduction to favorite fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters. Each character leads to the next in a cheerful refrain, until finally Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Robin Hood and more join for a yummy pie picnic. For all ages.
ECO BABIES WEAR GREEN (board, $6.95, Ten Speed) by Michelle Colman
You can never be too young to care for the environment. You’ll love these tree-hugging, creatively recycling babies. This is the newest entry in a set of board books about different groups of babies: URBAN BABIES WEAR BLACK, BEACH BABIES WEAR SHADES, and more.
Check out our daily themes at TriangleMom2Mom:
MONDAY: Meet!
TUESDAY: Ask!
WEDNESDAY: Eat!
THURSDAY: Play!
FRIDAY: Out!
WEEKEND: Relax!
Sarah Lindenfeld Hall
Sarah is in charge of content for TriangleMom2Mom.com and writes about family-friendly events, local moms groups and other topics for the site.
She lives in Raleigh with her
husband and three-year-old daughter. Sarah has written for newspapers
since she was a teenager living in snowy Central New York. After
graduating from the University of Virginia, she traipsed a bit around
Europe and Mount Airy, N.C., before settling down in the Triangle. She
moved here in 1999 to take a job with The News & Observer. She once aspired to play
flute professionally. More recently, her daughter started crying when
she played it.
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Every weekend, Mom2Mom offers some new ways to relax with your kids.
Today, the children's staff at Quail Ridge Books & Music offers these new books:
CARL’S SUMMER VACATION (hard cover, $12.95, FSG) by Alexandra Day
The beloved Rottweiler returns, leading young Madeleine on a perfect summer day at the lake. Day’s oil illustrations are gorgeous. Who wouldn’t want Carl as a baby sitter? YOU’LL know why they can’t stay awake through the fireworks. For ages 3 and up.
SAVVY (hard cover, $16.99, Penguin) by Ingrid Law
For the Beaumont family, reaching adolescence comes with a special gift —or curse: your 'savvy'. As Mibs turns 13, she's sure her life-altering gift will take a form which will help her hospitalized father. Her desperation sets her, her siblings, & two unsuspecting neighbor kids on a bus ride like no other. SAVVY may have playful homages to THE WIZARD OF OZ, but it's a truly original & delightful coming of age story. For ages 10 and up.
SHEEP BLAST OFF (hard cover, $15, Houghton Mifflin) by Nancy Shaw
Those adorable, hapless, adventuring sheep are back – this time on an inadvertent ride into outer space! Do you know SHEEP IN A JEEP, or SHEEP OUT TO EAT? These goofy, rhyming adventures never put parents to sleep reading them. An added plus: they are wonderful early readers when the kids are a little older. For ages 2 and up.The earlier sheep books are available in board book forms.
EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM
(paperback, board, hard cover; $4.99-14.99, Penguin) by Janet & Allan Ahlberg
Do you want a fun read-aloud? A ‘hunt and find’ for younger children? This is the perfect rhyming introduction to favorite fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters. Each character leads to the next in a cheerful refrain, until finally Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Robin Hood and more join for a yummy pie picnic. For all ages.
ECO BABIES WEAR GREEN (board, $6.95, Ten Speed) by Michelle Colman
You can never be too young to care for the environment. You’ll love these tree-hugging, creatively recycling babies. This is the newest entry in a set of board books about different groups of babies: URBAN BABIES WEAR BLACK, BEACH BABIES WEAR SHADES, and more.
Check out our daily themes at TriangleMom2Mom:
MONDAY: Meet!
TUESDAY: Ask!
WEDNESDAY: Eat!
THURSDAY: Play!
FRIDAY: Out!
WEEKEND: Relax!
Sarah Lindenfeld Hall
Sarah is in charge of content for TriangleMom2Mom.com and writes about family-friendly events, local moms groups and other topics for the site.
She lives in Raleigh with her husband and three-year-old daughter. Sarah has written for newspapers since she was a teenager living in snowy Central New York. After graduating from the University of Virginia, she traipsed a bit around Europe and Mount Airy, N.C., before settling down in the Triangle. She moved here in 1999 to take a job with The News & Observer. She once aspired to play flute professionally. More recently, her daughter started crying when she played it.
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