Interior Design 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Transforming Your Home
by Barbara Moreau
Have you ever wanted to decorate your home, but had no idea where to start? This book gives practical tips for decorating with an intentional style that works with the space you have. There are sections about lighting, furniture layout, paint colors, textures, accessories, and storage. There are even some tips about using DIY projects to decorate on a budget!
Continue readingI received the Penguin Clothbound Classics Jane Austen boxed set for free from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. I’m so grateful to Penguin for sending me these beautiful editions!
Not only are the covers absolutely gorgeous, the box itself is beautiful too! I love that each book has a ribbon bookmark attached. Each book has a scholarly introduction, a timeline of Jane Austen’s life, and lengthy notes at the end explaining aspects of Regency history like money, class, marriage, titles, and everyday life.
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The Phone Book: Stay Safe, Be Smart, and Make the World Better with the Powerful Device in Your Hand
by Jessica Speer (Goodreads Author), Lesley Imgart (Illustrations)
When young teens get their first smartphone, it’s like a whole new digital world opens up for them. This book gives teens the tools and wisdom to navigate the online world with kindness and grace. Phone addiction is absolutely real and can have a negative impact on our lives, causing depression and anxiety as well as health issues. But it IS possible to have a healthy relationship with your phone!
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S is for Snow
by Ashley Marie Mireles (Goodreads Author)
This board book is a really fun way to celebrate winter and learn your ABCs! I is for icicle, and F is for figure skating. Z is for zero degrees! P is for polar bear, and M is for mittens. I had to look up “Y is for yukigassen”, and I learned that yukigassen in a Japanese snowball-fighting competition. Even the adults can learn something new with this book!
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D is for Dinosaur (ABC Primer)
by Christopher Robbins, Volha Kaliaha (Illustrator)
This board book introduces different dinosaurs from A to Z. Some of them are familiar, like the velociraptor and T-rex. But some dinosaurs are less well-known, like the zalmoxes or the jingshanosaurus.
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Buttons
by Kalli Dakos, Nichola Cowdery (Illustrator)
A young girl contemplates all the different buttons there are in life. Elevator buttons, doorbell buttons, and buttons to fasten our clothes. Buttons on planes and tractors that make engines go, buttons that turn on computers, and buttons that turn on lights. But there is one button that is all her own… her bellybutton!
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Master American History in 1 Minute A Day
by Dan Roberts
In one page snippets, you can learn about American history from Christopher Columbus to President Biden. The book is divided into sections about exploration, colonization, the American Revolution, nationalization, the American Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution, economic struggle and the World Wars, and the “era of social and economic advance”, finishing up by calling recent history “the era of reaction, social struggle, and political contention.”
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V Is for Victorine
by Anne Nesbet (Goodreads Author)
4 out of 5 stars
Victorine and Darleen are on their way to Hollywood! They travel out to California with Darleen’s uncle, but get mixed up with burglars along the way. When Darleen’s uncle is mistaken for a burglar too, the girls are left on their own. Victorine is worried that her lawyers are looking for her again, wanting to put her under the care of legal guardians. But Victorine is perfectly happy pretending to be “Bella Mae” and making movies with the Darling family. Or is she?
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The Big Book of Mysteries
by Tom Adams (Goodreads Author), Yas Imamura (Illustrator)
4 out of 5 stars
Some mysteries can never be explained. Others have simple explanations or have been proven to be a hoax. Where is Amelia Earhart? Who built Stonehenge? Are the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot real? Are there really aliens making crop circles? Can fish really rain from the sky?
Some mysteries have already been solved. We know what makes aurora in the sky. But other strange lights in the sky are still unexplained. We know that the Piltdown man was a hoax, but what about Atlantis?
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How Do Scientists Ask Questions?: A Book About the Scientific Method
by Madeline J Hayes, Srimalie Bassani (Illustrations)
This children’s book introduces the scientific method, teaching children how to conduct their own experiments, collect data, and draw conclusions or theories. There are experiments and crafts to try at the back of the book to prove Newton’s laws about gravity, create your own DNA model from candy, or make a fossil from salt dough.
One section has inspiration from great scientists in history, like Isaac Newton, Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Thomas Edison. It also includes a little section about Charles Darwin, saying that he was the “originator of the theory of natural selection.” I was glad that this book makes it clear that natural selection and evolution are theories and are not proven fact.
This is such a fun book! I love the cute illustrations and the hilarious characters. The information is clearly explained step by step in a playful way that makes it memorable.
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. All the opinions stated here are my own true thoughts, and are not influenced by anyone.
How Do You Share With Your Friends?: A Math Book About Fractions, Decimals, & Percents
by Lucy D Hayes, Srimalie Bassani (Illustrator)
We use fractions and percents in our everyday lives without even realizing it. We use fractions to tell time, saying “half an hour”. We use decimals to calculate money when we buy or sell something. We can even use these math skills to divide up the work between friends, cut up slices of cake to share, or run a lemonade stand and split the profits.
I really liked how this book makes math simple and fun. There are so many everyday scenarios where we need to use fractions or decimals, and we can even use them interchangeably for the same amounts. Some of the examples are hilarious as the characters have to do their chores, or clean up the kitchen, or eat a pizza. If they only do half the chores, or eat 1/4 of the pizza, they are using their math skills!
This is such a fun book! I love the cute illustrations and funny characters. The information is clearly explained step by step in a playful way that makes it memorable.
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. All the opinions stated here are my own true thoughts, and are not influenced by anyone
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