Count Me In! A Parade of Mexican Folk Art Numbers in English and Spanish By Cynthia Weill • Illustrated by The Aguilar Sisters Cinco Puntos Press • 2012 • 32 pages Hardcover ($14.95) ISBN: 978-1-935955-39-9 Ages 3-6 With the help of this remarkable concept book, little ones may learn to count in Spanish and English […]
Whether you’ve had a good year, financially speaking, or one that can’t end soon enough, you may benefit from some simple year-end tax moves. By taking a little time now to review your income tax situation, you just may find yourself with a smaller tax bill next April. Here are nine year-end strategies that could […]
Spike the Mixed-up Monster By Susan Hood • Illustrated by Melissa Sweet Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books • 2012 • 40 pages Hardcover ($16.99) ISBN: 978-1442406018 Ages 4-8 Meet Spike, the axolotl, and his three amigos—a duck, an armadillo, and a Mexican vole. Author Susan Hood brings a unique protagonist to the picture book scene […]
Contact lens wearers have known for years that contacts in their eyes need to be removed before nodding off to sleep. It’s just one of those accepted things in life—you don’t sleep with contact lenses in. But times have changed as improvements to extended wear contact lenses are attracting more and more users. While disposable […]
The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind Meg Medina Candlewick Press • 2012 • 246 pages Hardcover ($17.99) ISBN: 978-0-7636-4602-8 Ages 13 and up Sonia Ocampo is not a typical small-town teenager. She was born during a terrible storm in her rural village of Tres Montes, and is seen as a gift from God for […]
Corinne from Threadbanger sits down with master crafter Mark Montero to learn how to transform a plain pair of pumps into funky new footwear. For more fantastic MamiTV videos and content, visit Mamiverse! Read Related: 8 DIY Projects: Garbage Upcycling Genius for Everyday Living
Summer of the Mariposas Guadalupe Garcia McCall Tu Books • 2012 • 355 pages Hardcover ($19.95) ISBN 978-1-60060-900-8 Ages 12 and up Mothers and daughters. As our girls grow up, the relationship becomes more difficult to navigate; we are pulled toward them one moment, pushed away the next. We want them to become independent and […]
Can being a mom blogger really make one happy? This time last year, if you had asked me my opinion on blogs, I would have rolled my eyes and said they were stupid. That’s my composition teacher and journalist snobbery talking—I really am biased against bad writing that serves no purpose. That’s why I haven’t […]
I See The Sun In Mexico/Veo el Sol en México By Dedie King • Illustrated by Judith Inglese Translated by Julio Ortiz Manzo Satya House Publishers • 2012 • 40 pages Paperback ($12.95) ISBN: 978-1-9358741-4-0 Ages: 5-8 A delightful trip awaits young readers in this book as they are taken through a child’s typical day […]