We are currently renovating a space in our house we call ‘library’. Well, it’s really just an extra space, but we’re painting and assembling a wall of bookshelves to house my growing number of books and literature. And I am so excited, I tell you, because I am a self-confessed bookworm.
Books can change a child’s life, as mine did and in countless others. So, in honor of the love for books, and in observance of the National Children’s Book Week, I am giving away books and other cool prizes!
From now until the end of May, watch this …read more

Let me tell you a side story. The Fairy Chronicles series were one of the first books I reviewed this month. I sat down to read one and eagerly jumped to the second. I was halfway through the second book when I realized I have to give them away. And I almost just wanted to keep all seven books to myself!
That’s how captivated I was with the Fairy Chronicles books, written by J.H. Sweet. The adventures take place in the real world, but introduces us to fairies, brownies and goblins who live all around us. Each book tells …read more

I can personally tell you that books were a huge influence in my life. My love for reading began at a very young age, and I owe this first to my grandparents. My paternal grandmother, an elementary school teacher, taught me to read, literally by candlelight, because the town I spent my preschool years didn’t always have electricity. She read to us first, until my younger sister and I learned to read in both the English and our native language.
My maternal grandfather, the first engineer in his town, let me read his vast collection of well-guarded classics. We …read more