Friday, March 29, 2013

SHATTER ME and UNRAVEL ME by Tahereh Mafi: Review and giveaway!

My review of the excellent SHATTER ME and UNRAVEL ME by the wonderful Tahereh Mafi!




The giveaway is international, but I have to have 20 or more people enter by midnight on the night of Thursday, April 4th, 2013 or I can't run the contest. (Choosing randomly between one or two people is ridiculous.)

Leave comments here or in the comments section on YouTube to win, and make sure you spread the word!

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

BLOOD AND GUTS, it's a fish dissection!

So, The Kidlets and I dissected a fish as a science lesson recently. Here's the result. WARNING: Not for the faint of tummy!




Happy Wednesday!


Monday, March 18, 2013

Monday Musings: On Changing the Status Quo

This is what I've been thinking about lately:




What do YOU think?

Friday-ish Forward: You Are Stardust, by Elin Kelsey and Soyeon Kim

This book is amazing. We borrowed a copy from the library and immediately went out to buy our own copy once we had read it.

Here's my full review:




Happy reading!

A St. Patrick's Day Limerick

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, and in honor of my Leprechaun name Blarney McSmelly, which I love, I composed a limerick:

There once was a gal called McSmelly
Whose toes were all filled with green jelly.
She scraped and she scrubbed,
Heaped it all in a tub,
And sold the lot off to the deli.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!