Q&A with Laurie Hollman about The Busy Parent’s Guide to Managing Anxiety and parental intelligence

Laurie Hollman's latest book, The Busy Parent's Guide to Managing Anxiety in Children and Teens, offers examples of how people to use parental intellegience to help with their children's anxiety.

Important, but scary information in DK Books’ How to Keep Your Kids Safe Online

How to Keep Your Kids Safe Online is an important and informative read.

Nursery rhymes like you have never seen them before thanks to former stand-up comedian turned author Gerry Swallow

Blue in the Face, a Story of Risk, Rhyme, and Rebellion by Gerry Swallow ($19.99, Raincoast Books, Bloomsbury Children's Book) is the story of Elspeth Pule, who can only be described as a spoiled brat. After holding her breath so...

Chevy Stevens’ thriller Never Let You Go suspenseful right from the start

During a book slump last year, I picked up British Columbia author Chevy Stevens' book Those Girls ($13.99, St. Martin's Press), and just like that I was back to reading about a couple of books a month. When Raincoast Books...

Reviewing The Meaning of Michelle (Obama) – and trying to learn about the person behind the first lady title

I am not a political person. That is not to say I don't know politics or don't have an opinion about it, it's just that it doesn't consume me. I listen, a watch, and I vote. Being Canadian, my political...

Q&A with Spilt Milk Yoga author Cathryn Monro about motherhood and self-discovery

“(Spilt Milk Yoga is) designed to be mother friendly, 52 very short chapters, so readers can just dip in and out; open to the chapter that speaks to you at the time and take what you need.” This is the...