The Sneezy Wheezy Day (Talking Bird Books, January 1, 2012, $14.95) is a hardcover picture book that tells the tale of a brother and sister cub. One day after swimming in the crystalline pool, poor brother cub gets sick so sister takes him to see the animals in the forest. They in return offer silly [...]

Gracie’s Gift is a hardcover book created by an independent publisher. It’s about a girl who realizes that the bows her mother gives her are not to annoy her but are gifts of love and affection.
The story starts with Gracie getting ready for her birthday party. She gets frustrated when she sees a bow sitting [...]

Do you know about Juno Baby? They have a line of products that bring the joy of music to children. Me and my daughter are big fans and have their DVDs, CDs and now book! With the DVDs,  a cast of lovable puppets created by the talented hands behind some of your favorite Muppet [...]

The beloved story A Charlie Brown Christmas is now an interactive digital book app. There are 4 new scenes included and what’s really special is that the narrator is Peter Robbins, the original voice of Charlie Brown.
Touch the characters and objects and watch the TV show come to life. I grew up on this Christmas [...]

Here’s a really nice children’s picture book on animals that really stands out. Curious Critters ( $19.95 and published by Wild Iris Publishing) is filled with photographs of North American creatures by David FitzSimmons. The animals are common and can be found in your own backyard. Set against a white background, kids can really study [...]

Sesame Street just keeps on going. The Sesame Workshop has a fun selection of new items featuring the beloved Muppets. As a nonprofit organization, the proceeds from each purchase of a Sesame Street product goes towards creating more educational and engaging programs for children around the world.
Here are my fave picks for little ones:
Elmo’s Merry [...]

Now here’s a book that would make a great stocking stuffer. Introducing My Very Merry Christmas from iseeme.com. Have animal friends like Goose, Chipmunk, Bluebird, and Mouse help your child get ready for Santa’s arrival. Any child would be delighted to see their name throughout the pages of this 6″ x 6″ board book.
The illustrations [...]

Purr-fect as a gift!
Zooborns Cats is a small hardcover book containing adorable photos of these newborn animals. Every picture really melts your heart. With each animal there is information given like the species, their names, which zoo they live in and when they were born.
Published by Simon & Schuster, who published the first Zooborns (a [...]

Here are some fun and educational workbooks that blend with online games for the kids. The Learning Company, a division of global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has launched a new series of creatively designed workbooks featuring the time-honored and beloved characters Curious George and Reader Rabbit.
The series includes eight 64-page workbooks designed to help [...]

Today’s giveaway is a wonderful interactive book called Razzle Dazzle Ruby. Read along as Ruby goes through her day enjoying the snow.
Each page will have you skating, rolling a snowball, sledding and creating snow angels with Ruby. It’s an enchanting picture book that you will want to keep reading over and over.

(Check out the video [...]

Halloween is coming and The Jim Henson Company is offering a lot of fun stuff for the kids. Read the following!
The Spooky Scavenger Hunt from Grosset & Dunlap – Mr. Pteranodon takes Buddy and Tiny on a nighttime trip to the Big Pond for a spooky nature walk! Mr. Pteranodon and the conductor insist they [...]

Here are some cool new books from Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press. The new, independent publisher is based in London and has come up with the interactive Noodle series by Marion Billet as well as the hardcover story of Dinosaur Dig!
Noodle Loves To Cuddle and Noodle Loves Bedtime are the cutest board books [...]

Yay! Here’s another audiobook from the Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle’s classic Bear books series. Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? It’s the third installment narrated by Gwyneth Paltrow and beautifully packaged with vibrant colors.
A Bald Eagle soars, a Spider Monkey swings, a Macaroni Penguin struts, and a Red Wolf sneaks through [...]

Have your baby put on their shades and get ready to jam. New board book Rockin’ Babies takes a child on a journey to imagine the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle. Authors Cynthia Weil (lyricist) and her family therapist mom Dr. Jenn Berman have collaborated humor into 20 pages of this book.
(Watch the video on the [...]

Get creative with flowers! Klutz’s Fabulous Flowers By Anne Akers Johnson is a book with can’t-go-wrong instructions for life-sized, dimensional, paper blossoms. Make roses, daisies, daffodils, hibiscus, zinnias, cosmos, poppies, and larkspur with the materials included. So what do you get?
There’s 20 pages of ready-to-punch-out paper petals, sparkly flower centers, wrapped wire stems, glue, and [...]