book review

The Happiest Mom (New Book Release by Meagan Francis)

March 21, 2011




When Julian was little and I started spending time on attachment parenting forums, everyone was raving about Harvey Karp’s Happiest Baby on the Block. An anti-thesis to many of the baby trainers and baby schedulers, this book offered suggestions for creating a “fourth-trimester” like environment to help ease your baby’s transition into the world.  There [...]

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Book Review: Slow Death by Rubber Duck (by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie)

June 23, 2009




With fear and interest I picked up a copy of this book on a lovely visit to Chapters in Toronto with my friends Sam from babyREADY and Lindsay from Kickypants. Overview The byline for the book Slow Death by Rubber Duck is “how the toxic chemistry of everyday life affects our health“. The book systematically [...]

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Book Review: Play (by Stuart Brown, M.D.)

April 20, 2009




As many of you know, the contest for my Carnival of Play is the opportunity to win one of three copies of this book. On this final day of the Carnival, I have just finished reading it and am ready to post my review. Overview In his new book Play, Stuart Brown provides an overview [...]

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Book Review: The Discipline Book (by William Sears, M.D and Martha Sears, R.N)

June 22, 2008




This is the first of what I hope will be many book reviews of parenting books that I have read. I hope to include ones that I loved, ones that I hated and ones that I was unsure about. Enjoy and feel free to add your thoughts on the books or ask me questions if [...]

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