Good Comics for Kids
December 31, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS
On Saturday, December 26th, the day after Christmas, I sat in my bathtub with my two crying girls and a dog as tornado sirens blared all around us. I would learn later that night that towns all around us were devastated by this storm, though this time we were spared. We were not so lucky […]
December 30, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Publisher’s Book Description: Seventeen-year-old Mercedes Ayres has an open-door policy when it comes to her bedroom, but only if the guy fulfills a specific criteria: he has to be a virgin. Mercedes lets the boys get their awkward, fumbling first times over with, and all she asks in return is that they give their girlfriends […]
December 29, 2015 by Amanda MacGregor
Like many of you (I’m guessing), I keep multiple reading-related lists. I keep track of what I read each year. I keep track of what ARCs I’ve gotten and hope to read. I keep track of what books I either want to get when they come out or hope to track down as ARCs but […]
December 28, 2015 by Robin Willis
So I’m on vacation, as you might expect, and reading things that I can’t review for a while. But I’m thinking about an offer I had over the Thanksgiving weekend. Friends whom I visit once or twice a year said to me, “We had this great idea, but only if you think it’s a great […]
December 28, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Yesterday I shared with you a little bit about my feelings about people telling The Teen that she is “too sensitive”. It’s something that we obviously talk about a lot because I want to remind her that she can and should be able to express her feelings and stand up for herself. The other part […]
December 27, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS
We were driving to a friend’s house when we came to the Intersection of Doom; traffic almost always comes to a stop here as 3 billion cars try to navigate an interchange designed to meet the freeway needs of only about 1 billion cars. At the time, I’m sure it made sense in some civic […]
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December 25, 2015 by Robin Willis
This Week at TLT Sunday Reflections: Last Christmas, I Gave You My Hope Middle School Monday – Superheroes Don’t Eat Veggie Burgers by Gretchen Kelley Book Review: This Raging Light by Estelle Laure App Review: FotoRus Karen’s Top 15 Reads of 2015 How Did You Do That? Photo Apps Version Around the Web The Number […]
December 24, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS
I get a lot of email where people ask how I created such and such of a graphic. Today, I thought I would share some of my favorite tips, tricks, and filters. A decent portion of my current teen programming involves teaching teens how to do fun photo tricks and then to translate that into […]
December 23, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Earlier this month Amanda shared her Favorite 15 reads of 2015. Today it is my turn. Since we try to cover as many books as possible here, we often don’t read the same books, though that is not a hard and fast rule. Sometimes I will read a book and want to talk to Amanda […]
December 22, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS
It’s been a couple of weeks since I talked about a photo app, so you probably thought that my obsession with photos and photo apps was dying down – but no! It is alive and well, I have just been waiting for the right moment. Like now, now feels like the right moment to discuss […]
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