The benefits of reading aloud to children have been proven at home and when preparing for school. Beyond that, it helps develop language and literacy skills overall. Children need so much to grow into healthy adults. And this doesn’t only mean nutrition and safety. Cognitive health and social skills are a large part of your child’s development, along with mental and emotional stability.…
What can be better for an avid reader than a visit to a bookstore? The variety of yet unexplored fictional worlds to choose from, the smell of the freshly printed paper, the comforting touch of the glossy book covers… Now, it turns out that there is something even more exciting than that after all. And it’s a Canadian bookstore that has kittens roaming…
Life teaches us so many things, good and bad. Sometimes, children's books and cartoons provide some of the wisest of these life lessons. As a child, I watched Winnie the Pooh Friends, a cartoon from 1924. I marveled at the story and various characters. In those times, it was basically entertaining to a bored little girl. Now, I look at the stories and…
Do you feel you’re falling into a routine lately? Do you need a push to escape it? Here is how you can achieve your best life by challenging yourself. They say that we should try one task that scares us every day, but can we really find enough scary things to try? Roller coasters seem like a great idea, but it can’t really be…
Since time immemorial, people have perceived religion and spirituality as the path to a meaningful life. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche is a guide to leading an engaging and fulfilling existence. This thought-provoking book will help you see death as a new possibility instead of the end of the road. The lessons that you can draw from this…
Book readers, sadly are a dying breed. They are slowly being replaced with online tabloid websites. Book readers will usually fall into two categories, the skim reader, and the deep reader. The “deep reader”, is someone who can be described as actually finishing a book, from cover to cover. They absorb the whole story and cherish the time spent with the characters, these…
Do you want to be smarter? Then begin to adopt these hobbies and habits! Smarts don't grow on trees and to get a bit of extra oomph when it comes to your cognitive abilities, it is important to work on them on an everyday basis. Now, I’m not saying that you can drastically increase your level of intelligence even if you work on…
Aniko Kolesnikova creates incredibly detailed 3D book covers that look like they walked right out of some fantasy land. In the age of mass production, it has become unusual to see a handcrafted item. It is not profitable enough to produce hand-made things, and it is certainly impossible to keep producing them at the same rate as the factory. Aniko Kolesnikova has proved…
Now that we know the 8th Harry Potter book is to be released on July 31, we can look forward to the magic returning. Every century has certain things that stand out – in politics, in world events, in technology, in cultural changes, in music, art, and in literature. These things become the “legacies” of those centuries. A huge legacy of the 20th…
Almost everybody who celebrates this holiday has their favorite Christmas books. This could be a book that was read each during Advent as a family tradition. It could be a book that was pure fun to read as a child. It may even be a book that inspired them or strengthened their faith during a difficult time. Whatever the case may be, books…