A couple of nights ago, I read Weezer Changes the World aloud to my four year-old. The ten year-old listened in because it’s one of his favorite books (and mine). Weezer...
Kid Canon
Fantastic Book About Trees
The Tree Book for Kids And Their Grown-Ups is everything you have ever wanted to know about the trees you walk by every day, broken down by buds, leaves, bark, flowers,...
Your Desert Island Picture Book
A recent post on Motherlode posed this question: What’s your desert island picture book? Gretchen Rubin of the Happiness Project was decisive; she’d bring Where...
A Kids’ Field Guide to Serious Fun
As children, when my siblings and I would complain that we were bored, my mom always shooed us back outside with these three words: "Use your imagination." We would...
Vintage Books We Love
I love kids' books with photography for the illustrations. A couple of years ago I found Little Erik of Sweden and snatched it up. And then I started to find more...
Vintage Book to Look Out For
If you've been reading Momfilter for a while, you know we dig vintage books, and especially when they're photographed. I found this French one, which has an English...
Book to Collect
I recently stumbled upon all of these Munro Leaf books I have never seen before. This Geography Can Be Fun book is great, from the graphics to the information--the...
A Math Book They’ll Love
Zero the Hero is a math-lesson picture book that doesn't feel anything like a lesson, because it actually tells a story. Author Joan Holub and illustrator Tom Lichtenheld...
Presidential Primaries
Most holiday-themed children's books, let's face it, aren't very good. Most are conceived and created mainly to be promoted at their respective times of the year,...
Best Shark Book
My son Willem is crazy about this shark book, Sharks and other Creatures of the Deep. The illustrations are really well done and the writing is just clear and comprehensive...
The Way We Work
The title sort of says it all, from the author of The Way Things Work, which is also an essential. Any question that you or your child has about the human body is...
Trainspotting
We have two young boys, so trains have been a major theme of our home for quite some time. The three-year-old grows more fascinated with them daily, his interest...
