1) Totally Geeky, but I am soooo freaking happy that Amazon has finally worked titles into their product URLs, because it’s been a pet peeve of mine for ages to see "I’m reading this book" and have the this link to Amazon, with a URL of randomly generated letters and numbers.
2) Ingrid has this book (Ha! Okay, it’s called Sweet Dreams), and it’s a taggie book, but of all the strategically placed tags ON the book? Which one does she choose to chew on? Yeah, the actual tag. Of course.
3) I think that this book will be my new baby-gift book from here on out, as it shows all kinds of families, all kinds of feeding, all kinds of carrying, etc. Of course, this pisses off the conservative christian wingnuts, which makes it an even better book to own. It shows a 2-mama family, and 2-daddies, and that’s cool, as well as adoptive families, multicultural families, and even babywearing! It’s also cool with the breastfeeding thing — I don’t like the breastfeeding books that are all "mama makes breastmilk! and if babies don’t get it, they aren’t loved and will be C students, if they are lucky!" — and this covers just about every possible baby situation, without making any specific family or choice seem freakish. It’s great. And it comes in the flavors of Hardcover or Boardbook.
OMG, the reader reviews on that last book are PRICELESS!!! I now must own it. I feel like sending the authors a donation too.
woot! for scholastic book and keeping me gainfully employed. The taggies book is actually one of my favs. Also, I thought of you today while on my lunch hour I spotted a window display in trendy SoHo that had a baby sling wearing mannequin with a doll in it. I’ll take a pic next time I pass by for you.
Lobster and Marvey have the taggies book and also chose to chew on the actual tag instead of the “taggies.” They’re not stupid, they know where the good stuff is!
It’s so funny that you are here, purchasing baby books. . . I just finally found room in my life to read REAL grown up books. . . .You have no idea how happy I was to be wiping my ass and looking at Barack Obama (instead of The cat in the Hat)smiling up at me from my bathroom floor. . . ahhh, a grown up book. (it’s pretty good so far, btw)Of course, I still have to read in the bathroom, but for the first time in months, I was able to read more than a paragraph in bed without getting to the end of the page and going, “what the hell did I just read?”
Daeden got the final book of LS’s and Larry, of course, something about Cathars, Templars, and the Church of Rome. . .
The little ones. . . .more scholastic school books (I have a hard time not ordering those frigging things. . looks like I am contributing to someones paycheck – damn those spongebob activity sets!!! )