EAT. SHOP. PLAY. Discovering the Best in the San Fernando Valley
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BY JO PERRY Fall is here, bringing with it pumpkins, Halloween, and news about the upcoming election. Share these timely books with your children and create some new family traditions. Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats, A Treasure of … [Read more...]
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BY JO PERRY Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! - Wallace Stevens April should be silly and full of surprises—just like these books: Children 3 and up will admire Larf, Ashley Spires’s solitary, shy, vegetarian … [Read more...]
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BY JO PERRY A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb I’ve always felt that childhood and flight are connected: for children everything is possible and imagination and the body … [Read more...]
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BY JO PERRY “...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.”― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth There are always loose ends, aren’t there? Second thoughts, changes of mind. And never a completely tidy ending … [Read more...]
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BY JO PERRY Back to school for the big kids means that you’ll have more time to spend with the babies in your life. And no time is more important than story time. If The Poky Little Puppy rings a bell you’ll be happy to know that the adored and … [Read more...]
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BY JO PERRY During hot weather, the next best thing to getting wet is reading a story about swimming. Pierre the Penguin, A True Story by Jean Marzullo and illustrator Laura Regan introduces children to Pierre, an African penguin who lives in San … [Read more...]
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BY JO PERRY Childhood is a time of joy and freedom, but also anxiety and courage. The three books I’ve chosen, though very different in tone and purpose, remind kids how important and wonderful they are. David Smith’s This Child, Every Child: A … [Read more...]
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By Jo Perry Give a child a book and you let him know that reading is important and fun. Here’s my list of books to surprise, amuse, inform, gross-out, and inspire kids (and the grown-ups who read-along with them) this holiday … [Read more...]
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By Jo Perry Dazzling and clever Independent Publisher Book Award-winner Ankle Soup by Maureen Sullivan with illustrations by Alison Josephs presents a French bulldog’s holiday morning and leaves readers 4 years old and older grateful for … [Read more...]
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BY JO PERRY During August, the next best thing to getting wet is reading a story about swimming. Pierre the Penguin, A True Story by Jean Marzullo and illustrator Laura Regan introduces children to Pierre, an African penguin who lives in San … [Read more...]
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