From the minute I got up the courage to slip my newborn Truman into the little baby tub, he took to the water. He could bathe or shower or swim or just sit in the yard with a hose and be content for hours on end.

It was exhausting when he had just learned to walk and would charge toward the swimming pool with obvious glee while Rick and I raced to keep him from leaping in. He refused swimmies or any type of floating device from the beginning. And so it was no surprise that he learned to swim at …read more

In my interview of Carolyn McWilliams Brown, author of  the children’s picture book, All You Want and Then Some, I learned about illustrating  the book ,as well as writing it and how her family inspired the project.  The story evolved from a family challenge and Carolyn’s children inspired the illustrations
I’ve continued the interview here:
Mary Emma: Were your children involved in writing the book?
Carolyn: They were!  They were involved in making the illustrations come to life.  By the time I got around to writing the story, several years had passed; Katie had grown, and that created a challenge for the …read more

Can you just believe this? Alec Baldwin will be writing a children’s book! He who screamed at his own daughter Ireland over the phone and called a “thoughtless little pig”! Yes, THE Alec Baldwin who is going through a very public, awful divorce and custody battle over Ireland with ex-wife Kim Basinger. Image details: BookExpo America served by picapp.com

It’s a 240-page children’s book titled “A Promise to Ourselves: Fatherhood, Divorce and Family Law,” is due Sept. 23 from St. Martin’s Press.
And you know what else is weird? The how-to book is about injustices done to divorced fathers. Baldwin …read more

We were watching Jay Leno last night when who should visit but Laura and Jenna Bush! The First Girls (Lady and Daughter) were there to promote their first children’s picture book “Read All About It“.
This is the first book for the mom and daughter team, but they’re not strangers of children’s literature. Both are also school teachers and have a passion for getting children to read and be literate. Jenna Bush has also written a book titled “Ana’s Story“, although this is more an inspirational story than a litrature for children.
It’s a known fact that First Lady Laura …read more

Girls love horses! And the next best thing to having your own or riding on one, is reading an adventure story about girls and their horses. Jo Ann Dawson beautifully wrote three four books full of adventure, mysteries and secrets about two young girls and their horses – The Lucky Foot Stables series. The first book – Lady’s Big Surprise – will totally catch you by surprise. As I read the book, I thought- oh this must be that surprise. But the ending was be an extra source of delight! And I loved how well the author created two …read more