We got a free kids book box from RevealBookBox.com to review and also did an unboxing on the SewGeekMama YouTube channel. Kids Reveal is a subscription box service that sends fun and educational books to your child each month. 2023 Update: In a funny twist, the website is no longer a kids book box and is now a romance book box! My son is getter better at doing these, while I seem to be getting worse, lol – I kept saying the name of the website wrong! But I was able to add some captions with the correct website name…
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Welcome to another episode of Keelan Hates to Read! This time, I torture him with a cute book by Ginny Jordan called What’s Making Walter C. Laugh?, available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle editions. OK, I’m kidding about the torture part, but really that’s how he acts whenever I try to sit down and encourage him to read anything that isn’t his counting book with the picture of 50 cars. I get a lot of book review offers, and I only take the ones that look like my son might give them an iota of a chance. I…
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We were sent the book Why Did Sergeant Stubby Go to War? for a review. If you’ve been following the blog then you know I’ve been trying to get my son into reading. I thought this book would catch his attention because it involved a dog in an Army uniform. He likes dogs and is used to seeing his dad in uniform. How could he not like it? Unfortunately Sgt. Stubby didn’t stand a chance. He did indeed go to war, just not the kind he was used to. It’s a war I’ve been on the forefront of since last…
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I have always loved books and reading and couldn’t wait to read stories to my son after he was born. I even read books to him when he was still in my belly! But from early on, his disdain for books and other reading material was made painfully clear. When he was a baby, we’d get about half-way through a story before he’d start trying to kick the book out of my hand, or grab it to chew on. This continued through to toddlerhood, where he advance to wrestling the book from my hands and throwing it across the room.…