Animobiles: Animals on the Mooove by Maddie FrostWhat happens when you combine vehicles that go vroom! and animals that say roar!? A creative and quirky book that your kids will love of course! A tiger-striped train takes tiger over grassy fields, parrot-planes fly...
JAMIE BELL ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND AT HIGH PARKAddress: 185 Spring Road, Toronto, Ontario How to Get Here: The playground is found within High Park – I always enter via High Park Road and then you veer to the left. It will become visible on your left with a parking lot...
I realize school went back last week, but my son only started today. And even though it has been a week for many of your kids, I am sure they are still struggling with some aspects of heading to school each day. Mostly the departure of their parents. These books have...
UPDATED: SEPTEMBER 2019 Before I had kids, I always wanted to go apple-picking with the Engineer. He was not into this idea. But now that we have kids, he has to go (even though he still loathes the idea – why – I don’t know). And so we go. I do wonder at the...
Say Good Night Like This by Mary MurphyWe’ve enjoyed Murphy’s previous books like I Kissed the Baby and Say Hello Like This! which are repetitive without being annoying (bonus because I have to read them over and over to Alice). In this book, we say good night...
Click, Clack, Quack to School! by Doreen Cronin with pictures by Betsy LewinThe farm animals are baaaaack! This time they are headed to school. Farmer Brown gets a letter from the local elementary school inviting him to come visit (as well as the animals –...
The Mixed-Up Truck by Stephen SavageI love anything Stephen Savage writes/illustrates and this book is no exception. Each truck has its job. The crane is for lifting, the dump truck is for dumping and the digger is for digging. The cement truck wants to help but...
A GUIDE TO FINDING GREAT PLAYGROUNDS FOR THE KIDS AND FANTASTIC COFFEE FOR YOU If your kids are now the age of independent play, chances are, you spend lots of time at the playground. And unless you are a mutant or a saint, this can be pretty boring. This is my guide...
Dinosaur Farm by Frank Preston-GannonIt’s very hard being a farmer. It’s especially hard when you are feeding a farm of giant brontosauruses. Urm, brontosauri? Or cleaning the poop of the triceratops. This is a fun book if you have a dinosaur lover in your house....
Old MacDino Had a Farm by Becky Davies with pictures by Ben WhitehouseThis is an insanely fun take on the classic song “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”. In this one, Old MacDino has a farm full of regular farm animals that have to share their space and food with dinosaurs....
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