You Know, for Kids

While I promise to always concentrate on the kids’ entertainment that’s the nominal focus of this blog, from time to time I see something a...

Seattle, known since my own youth for its independent music scene, now also has a thriving music scene for youths. Now, I don’t really know...

Sometimes you can tell almost at first glance when a picture book is going to be special. Usually the art is the driving force—so gorgeous...

A friend writing a story about a backyard movie party asked me the other day for some good “summer movie” recommendations for kids—that i...

Most parents probably don’t need me to tell them They Might Be Giants make fantastic music for kids, so consider this more of a gratitude...

Conceptual picture books—by which I mean ones that operate more from a particular theme or idea than in a traditional linear narrative—are...

After we became parents, we kept listening to “our” music with our son around without a second thought. Sure, we worried now and then about...

I have to admit it: I’m favoring my eldest. At least, in terms of writing about (and, OK, thinking about) his books and DVDs and suc...

The “Old School” tag has pretty much jumped the shark these days, but it fits my purpose here well: These posts are about the unique joy of...

I admit to having briefly misjudged Princess Katie & Racer Steve at first glimpse, worrying that their stage personas could become q...

Among all the kids’ stuff scattered around our homes, there are those precious go-to items: the books, music, videos, and games our kids re...

I loved board games as a kid, and as a parent I’d been looking forward to playing them with my kids. Typically, though, I forgot that most b...

Greek myths were my fairy tales when I was young. I remember loving that the stories always seemed to have some kind of twist to them: th...