Week in Review – Media

What a wonderful week for Media Reviews! Tristi continued her fun series of interviews with our very our Families.com bloggers. Don’t miss interviews with Mental Health blogger Beth McHugh, Weight Loss and Disney blogger Lisa Pietsch, Pet and Marriage blogger Courtney Mroch, and Money blogger Debbie Vasen. Read the interview with Rebecca Cornish Talley, author of LDS young adult novel, “Heaven Scent”. In picture books, we have a reminder of time well spent in Let’s Go on a Mommy Date by Karen Kingsbury. In young adult fantasy, The Journal of Curious Letters – James Dashner sounds like a marvelous new … Continue reading

Let’s Go on a Mommy Date – Karen Kingsbury

Christian author Karen Kingsbury is best known for her romantic suspense. I greatly enjoyed her novel “One Tuesday Morning,” about the bombing of the World Trade Center, and also “Like Dandelion Dust.” Would I like her children’s picture books? “Let’s Go on a Mommy Date” is not her first picture book to be published, but it’s the first one I’ve read. How would she transition, in my mind, from writing for adults to writing for children? The answer – very well. The children are lounging around in the living room, glued to the television screen. Mommy decides they need an … Continue reading