“You will never win if you never begin.” ~~ Helen Rowland

 Whole World: Fun Eco Activities Giveaway!

If you would like to win a copy of Barefoot Books newest activity book, please leave me a COMMENT on this post, telling me how you and your family are trying to live a more eco-friendly life. The book will go to the person who inspires me the most!  Include a valid [...]

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“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.” ~~ P. J. O’Rourke

Sometimes parenting feels easy.  The children are behaving, you are being patient, everyone is well rested.  Then there are the times when anything and everything can turn your sweet little child into a ferocious beast.  Recently, my four year-old was acting more and more like a beast.  My first reaction was to get beast-like myself [...]

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“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.” ~~ Chinese Proverb

Barefoot Books is proud to announce our first young fiction line!

Little Leap Forward

“Wouldn’t you rather be free, just for a day, than spend a lifetime in a cage?”

The first in Barefoot Books’ Young Fiction line, this sensitively written, real-life story focuses on growing up in Beijing in the 1960s, at the time of the Cultural [...]

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“Find a need and fill it.” ~~ Ruth Stafford Peale

I have found a wonderful website about Montclair and the surrounding area.  It is something that I have been looking for – a place to get lots of information about what’s going on in my town.  As a mom, I’m always looking for things to do and I can find it here.

SuzySaid is a free [...]

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