As the days in October dwindle and Halloween approaches, I had been searching for spooky Halloween books when I found Skeleton For Dinner for my children’s book review. Being a big fan of the book’s illustrator, Will Terry, I was very curious what type of Halloween characters he might create for a Halloween book since his […]
October is here and Fall is in full swing; what a great time for a Pumpkin Heads book review. Picture book month is also in October. There are so many wonderful picture books that can be shared with children. Special stories about holidays are always a great way to peak a child’s interest. Pumpkin […]
The Tortoise And Hare Storybook App Review is a peek into the interactive app for children based on the famous tale from Aesop’s Fables. It is the humorous and magical with interactive activity and animation that brings this story to life. As I viewed it I was thinking that I knew children would be spell […]
Today is Friday and that means FREE APPS for kids. Every Friday I will review and list some free apps for kids. Also the Moms With Apps website offers specials every Friday until 8 PM when most of the apps return to regular price. Many developers offer free or reduced prices on their […]
It is that time of the year when school is out and children are overly excited about being out of school for the summer. The kids are excited but most parents start scrambling after the first one or two weeks to find activities to keep them busy. Most parents realize that if the kids are […]
It is that time of year when children are getting excited about school being out for the summer and parents are planning their vacations. I remember as a child riding in the car for long periods of time and being very bored. When I viewed Roxie’s A-maze-ing Vacation Adventure app , it brought back memories […]
Recently I did a review on this blog for Roxie Munro’s interactive children’s activity app, Roxie’ Doors and more recently, Roxie’s Amazing Adventure. I am pleased to also have interviewed Roxie and thought everyone would enjoy getting to know a little bit more about this fascinating, talented and award winning, author and illustrator. Questions: […]
The last couple of days have taken up with long meetings, but I worked on a couple of sketches developing character for another new book. Right now I am just getting ideas so this might not be the final characters. It is a start and sometimes just taking time to compare the characters and think […]
Today I did a sketch involving circles. My idea behind it was all alike but different expressions with different feelings about the same activity. They are synchronized emoticons (smileys). The characters are one of the ideas I have for an educational Math concept storybook I am working on. I am not sure if this will […]
Here it is my second sketch for Sketch Day May. This a character that I have planned for a picture book. It is based on thoughts I have from several sources including both my thick head of hair and images of me as a young girl and also my granddaughter who loves to draw, paint […]
