Kids are capable of doing many different things, and this site celebrates that! One example is Douglas Christie, Jr., the son of the NBA basketball player Douglas Christie (L..A. Lakers 1993-2007). He has written two books for young children, Dougie Learns to Ride and Dougie Goes to School. Recently, Doug graciously agreed...

  Do you remember going to school for the first time? Or, are you maybe going to start school in a year or two? Sometimes starting school can be pretty exciting, but it can also be a little scary, if you’re not sure what to expect. Dougie Goes to School, the second...

Learning to ride a bike can be a VERY BIG deal, and it may seem difficult at first, but don’t let it get you down. Practice makes perfect, as Dougie discovers in Dougie Learns to Ride. It’s a wonderful book that is sure to be a big hit with young kids who are...

Snickers may satisfy people, but it takes brains to satisfy zombies, or Zums, as Tom Sawyer and the other characters who populate The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead by Don Borchert and Mark Twain call them. In this volume, you’ll find practically the entire novel Mark Twain wrote, plus the...

Being a boy genius can have lots of benefits, but also drawbacks. If you don’t believe it, just ask Cadel Greeniaus of Catherine Jinks’ The Genius Wars, the third novel in her trilogy about Cadel. Using one’s knowledge for evil, as Cadel did in Evil Genius, the first book in the series,...

Look at what my kid wrote! This was one of those posts that I kept wanting to share with the readers of the site because I thought it was quite funny.  This was written and drawn by my older son Christopher who was in Kindergarten (last year) at the time.  On the...

Make sure to catch up on our first in depth review of the 2010 Maclaren Triumph Stroller from earlier this summer.  It was now on to a trip to Universal Studios Orlando, where the Maclaren Triumph would be tackling the Islands of Adventure (which includes The Wizarding World of Harry Potter) as well...

Justin Bieber gets the cover of the Brazilian magazine todateen for the August 2010 issue.  Even though I have some trouble with reading the cover it seems that we have some Justin Bieber, Kristen Stewart as well as some stars from other countries like Luan Santana who seems like a singer. Do...

There is a new teen magazine on the racks and it is called 20 Under 20.  Seems that it arrived in June but this is the first I am hearing about it.  Shame on your marketing people.  The first issue has Justin Bieber on the cover with Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus...

I like the fact that Disney’s Friends for Change brings serious environmental issues to the people that can change the future, the kids. In this video Brenda Song along with Debby Ryan, Moises Arias, and Joe Jonas talk about how you can make a difference and the Oil Spill. Brenda Song really...

Eric Nylund has been interviewed here at BSC before by our esteemed editor and owner of the site, Jay Tomio, answering questions about his first novel in his YA series about the half-Immortal, half-Infernal twins, Eliot and Fiona Post, in Mortal Coils. Eric also answered questions about his involvement writing several Halo...

Do you ever get into reading a book so much that you practically want to devour it? How about this question: Does looking at some books fill you with a perverse hunger for their authors’ delicious figures of speech, ironic sense of humor, edge-of-your-seat suspense, heart-rending romance, or delectable mystery so much...

Selena Gomez has been very busy but she took some time out to chat with Girls Life Magazine as well as make the cover of the issue.  Inside the magazine you get Selena talking about Joey and Joey talking about Selena in the Ramona and Beezus promotion piece.  Ther eis a piece...