Category Archives: Books

Can Your Kids Read Too Much?

My daughter reads, like, a lot. It’s actually become something of an issue that’s a little difficult to deal with. I mean,.on the one hand, it’s awesome, she loves reading, she reads across genre, encyclopedias, Harry Potter, Archie comics, you name it.

But. She reads all..the..time.

At breakfast, at the dinner table, instead of doing homework, instead of going to bed. It’s gotten to the point where she will sit at the dinner table with a book and refuse to take her eyes off it. We ask politely for her to put the book down and actually converse with her fellow humans before going back into her book cocoon but that usually elicits grumbles and groans.

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The Pout-Pout Fish – Book Review

A few Christmas’ ago, my mother gave this to my daughter as a holiday gift. It turns out that the series was written in coordination with Kohl’s as part of their Kohl’s Cares Charitable endeavor. According to the book sleeve, 100% of the book’s proceeds would go to the above mentioned charity. The books are relatively inexpensive so as to drive sales and a by-product of this was that the book ended up on the New York Times Bestsellers list.

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