I love science experiments. These experiments were all easy, fun and we definitely learned a lot when doing them. We tried a few of the experiments and the kids were surprised at the outcomes.

While these were all messy they were fun and cleanup was easy.

Nature tonic is a journal style book with new and fun ways to get in touch with nature as well as yourself. Make that connection between yourself and. Store and become more relaxed and calm.

This book was really interesting the way it was designed and the images were beautiful. I felt it was a mix between science book, self help book and journal.

A beautifully written and hauntingly drawn story about a little girl who wants to learn how to say Grandfather in Cree. Her grandfather explains that he no longer remembers as his words were stolen as a child.

This book was both beautiful and sad. The images were stunning and captivating and yet so haunting the way they showed how the words were stolen from the children in residential schools.

I loved the contrast of images between the past and the present with the present being colourful, bright and happy, and the past being darker, painful and uncomfortable.

It was also wonderful to see the story written in Cree as well as English, it felt as though in a small way this is one step in taking back a language that was unrightfully stolen. An incredibly dark and infuriating piece of Canadian history that needs to be shared to teach everyone why happened.

The artist who illustrated this book is incredibly talented. The dragons and creatures included were well drawn and fantastic. I do not feel I could do these drawings as well. The book seemed to be a more advanced teaching than a learning book. I feel the descriptions about tools used and ways to draw and shade were well done. However once it got to the dragons it was six steps and I just got lost. It was as easy to follow along.

Maybe this is a lore advanced drawing guide. If you’re interested in learning to draw dragons and magical creatures and you have patience this book is for you.

I loved the colour palette for this book. The greys and blues were really eye catching. The story was simple. Try again when you fail.

Unfortunately the book didn’t load properly for me. I had to keep turning my device to fit the whole page into the screen so I missed out on a lot of the fun of the book while constantly having to change aspects.

Eff this! Meditation had me at the title.

A clean looking, calming, self help style book with ideas to calm from anywhere from one minute to days at a time.

I felt this book was a hit for me where others failed in the way that it is not a memoir disguised as a self help book. The ideas were really short and simple. All ideas were feasible. There were no outlandish tips and I think that it’s a great guide book for anyone.

This book is filled with stunning photographs from all over the world of the night sky. While that may not sound interesting it is absolutely beautiful.

This book also has captions for the pictures about locations, how the photograph was captured,’etc. While this may be interesting to some ( photographers, students, for example) I just didn’t enjoy that part of it. It felt very nat geo and I just ended up skipping most of them.

A game of hide and seek. Animals made entirely of triangles camouflaging in their surroundings.

A great book for young kids to teach them about camouflage. Colors are bright and bold and the animals are easy enough to spot. Then you just figure out what each animal is.

I LOVE Brian Gordon’s Fowl Language comic strip. This book is fantastic. Hilarious. Relatable. Realistic.

As a parent of a 20 month old and a 13 year old it’s so great to have an outlet like this to laugh and how perfectly imperfect I am.

Another great children’s book about an influential woman. Zaha Hadid is a fascinating woman who, if not for this book, I may not have known anything about.

The queen of curves. A creative architect who began to think outside the box and create incredible curvy buildings. Winning awards, gracing the covers of magazines, changing the way people thought about Arab women and pioneering the future of architecture.