Browsing through Mamazine

After putting the baby to nap this afternoon, I pulled out the computer (crossing my fingers that the house will stay quiet enough for this little light sleeper to have her full nap), and before getting to my work, breezed over to Mamazine. Mamazine was begun a year or so ago by some Sacramento moms who wanted more interesting mom-oriented literature and journalism, they wanted to see the complexities of their lives in writing. They've added a ton of new columnists, including this one, by Rad Dad Tomas Moniz which had a terrific list of radical books for children. It includes one of my favorite follow-your-own-drum books, Daniel Pinkwater's "The Big Orange Splot," and lots of titles I don't know, like: Oh Lord, I Wish I Was a Buzzard by Polly Greenberg and Aliki The Paper Bag Princess by Robert N. Munsch The Pirate Meets the Queen by Matt Faulkner The Pirate Queen by Emily Arnold McCully Punxsutawney Phyllis by Susanna Leonard Hill Rabbit Island by Jorg Steiner Sally Lockhart Mysteries by Philip Pullman There are many more, so click on over . Looking ahead to baby number two's reading, I'm ready to explore the nooks and crannies of children's lit I didn't reach the first time around.