Posts Tagged ‘books’

We've trumpeted the conceptual awesomeness behind the Jim Henson Company's cutesy-poo Dinosaur Train show.
Well, apparently the show's been successful to some degree, cuz now there are going to be a series of books starting in Fall 2010.
One can only hope this leads to other amazing Nerd Dad-approved edutainment mash-ups like "Shark Astronauts" or "Vikings [...]

While I'm of the firm belief that printed books will never completely go away, you'd be naive to think that perusing titles on electronic readers won't be the majority of the way people read in Teh Futor.
I'm thinking the leading wave of this movement might even start with my kid -- especially if the [...]

While at this year's ABC convention, The Wife picked up this Baltimore Orioles 101 board book, ostensibly for The Kid™, but I think we all secretly know that it was for me.
It's a fun little book, but it's also way depressing for a lifelong Orioles fan, especially when you get to this 2-page spread about [...]

The first authorized Winnie-the-Pooh sequel in 80 years is out today: Return to the Hundred Acre Wood.
There's a new character and it's authorized by the Pooh Properties Trust, so, who knows...?
The whole sequel idea is probably the most interesting part of this, I guess. On most days, I would tend to agree with [...]

File this post under "Things To Do This Weekend." With The Wife™ out of town once again and my daughter and myself being a big Wild Things fan, we'll be attending the opening of the Terrible Yellow Eyes exhibit at Nucleus on Saturday evening. It'll be her first gallery opening outside of pre-school, and I [...]

I know that Andrew's not at all fond of the movies, and I'm actually pretty lukewarm on them myself, but we both enjoyed the books and The Kid™ absolutely adores the first three flicks, so once the Harry Potter addition is up and running at the Universal theme park in Orlando, it's going to be [...]

No kidding. The WSJ has all of the details. In the history of random trends, this has to be one of the randomest, right?
Most bonnet books are G-rated romances, often involving an Amish character who falls for an outsider. Publishers attribute the books' popularity to their pastoral settings and forbidden love scenarios à la Romeo [...]

One of the pleasures I have these days are the advance copies of books I get to review for Nerd Dads. The best part about it is that I've been exposed to a number of titles that I wouldn't have otherwise even known existed. Most titles I get seem to skew a few years older [...]