Particularly for my friend Tami's daughter, but I'm making it quite broad, so hopefully it'll be helpful for any budding young science geeks. Since I don't have a lot of time left tonight, I'm just starting with magazines. I'm a huge fan of magazine subscriptions for kids. I had a lot growing up, and the excitement of their new arrival always ( Read more... )

Updated with minor revisions, corrections, and expansions on 4/15/12. For anyone who doesn't know me, my perspective in evaluating books like this is largely informed by being a queer feminist sexuality educator* and reproductive rights activist with an interest in intersectionalityMy reviews are probably most useful for parents and other adults ( Read more... )

I am so totally in love with this book.

I went in with high expectations since it's written by all-around awesome human being Astrid Lindgren, creator of my childhood hero Pippi Longstocking (that's Pippi in my icon; it was the best I could do with finding an image of her when I was icon-making ( Read more... )

I'm still working on the big giant spreadsheet, but as I'm checking out piles from the library and reading through them, I want to make some notes while it's fresh in my mind, and pass those along to folks who are interested. Since I'm also reviewing them on Amazon and posting those reviews to Facebook, apologies to folks who see this twice.
( reviews back here )