by Christina Refford | Baby
Since I’ve become a parent, my delight with Peter Rabbit has been replaced with a desire to give him a time out for eating Farmer Brown’s veggies and disobeying his mama. He’s figuring out how to win we me over again though, by going green with his...
by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes
If you’ve stumbled here, to our humble online abode after seeing our Editor-in-Chief Liz Gumbinner’s appearance on the CBS Early Show this morning, we wanted to point you towards the wonderful customized gifts she was talking about. The First Adventures of...
by Rita | Books for Adults
We love Melissa Conroy’s Wooberry dolls. The originals are not only designed from her child’s sketches, they’re also handmade. And beyond adorable.In a move that touches my writerly heart, the dolls have gone meta and returned to their paper-based...
by Cool Mom Team | Books for Kids
I’m pretty sure there’s nothing most kids love more than seeing their name or likeness in anything, hence the slew of personalized books that cram my daughter’s bookshelves. Her most recent birthday gift was a personalized book found at MJM Books, a...
by Cool Mom Team | Kid Style
I think the thing that bothers me the most about my kids begging for TV character clothes is that in a way, it makes them look like they watch a ton of television. Or really, like I let them watch a lot of television. Bring on the mommy guilt. But book characters?...
by Christina Refford | Toys + Playthings
When my son was younger, he’d shuffle around the house balancing a stack of his favorite books in his overloaded arms. I was thrilled to have raised a mini bibliophile, but after seeing countless board books tumbling onto his little toes, we both could have used...
