‘Sabotage on the Solar Express’ and ‘Epic Adventures’ Expand ‘AoT’ Series
‘Sabotage on the Solar Express’ and ‘Epic Adventures’ (a non-fiction spin-off) add to my favorite ongoing middle-grade series this month.
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Between the Bookends: 7 Books We Read in October 2021
As Spooky Season wanes and the Holidays kick off in earnest Sophie, Nivi, Lisa, and Scott have been reading a wide variety of books.
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Pride Month 2021: ‘One Last Stop’ by Casey McQuiston
‘One Last Stop’ by Casey McQuiston follows August who falls in love with a girl trapped in a time loop on the NYC subway since the 1970s.
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Adventures on Trains: My Favorite Middle-Grade Book Series in 2021
This month I picked up the next books in the Adventures on Trains series: ‘Kidnap on the California Comet’ and ‘Murder on the Safari Star’.
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Kickstarter Alert: Deluxe Board Game Train Sets Upgrades
Deluxe Board Game Train Sets are high-quality replacement train sets for many popular train board games inspired by traditional locomotives.
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Hornby Brings Traditional Toy Trains Into the Modern Age With Eurostar
Bring an element of international travel glamour to your holiday season with the Eurostar electric train set from Hornby.
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5 Fantastic Middle-Grade Books Perfect for Back to School
I’ve put together a bunch of fantastic middle-grade books covering a variety of genres and styles that I hope will inspire your young readers.
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Hornby’s Hogwarts Express Electric Train Set Hits the Tracks
The Hogwarts Express electric train set is a model railway starter set designed for older collectors and model railway enthusiasts.
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Build Your Own Wizarding World With Wrebbit 3D Puzzles
The Wizarding World Wrebbit 3D Puzzles are a range of 3D puzzles that allow you to build famous Harry Potter series buildings and vehicles.
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Are Brio’s Smart Tech and App-Enabled Toy Trains Worth The Cost?
We spent some time with the Smart Tech system and the App-Enabled Engine from Brio to see what these tech-enhanced toy trains are all about.
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‘The Brain Train’: All Aboard the World’s First Mathematical Railway!
The “world’s first mathematical railway,” ‘The Brain Train’ from The Happy Puzzle Company is an easy-to-understand single-player puzzle game.
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Goodbye, Thomas: Train Geeks Growing Up
True train geeks don’t really outgrow their early childhood obsessions. They just change the focus to more grown up styles of train.
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GeekMom Holiday Gift Guide #1: Toys
Welcome to the start of this year’s holiday gift guides! The GeekMom guides will run each week on Tuesday mornings. We start it off this year with Toys, with a few of the GeekMom writers’ favorites.
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The Cost of Licensing a Birthday Party
A birthday party using licensed characters is no mean feat, as GeekMom Sarah found out while planning her son’s Thomas themed party.
Continue ReadingGeekMom 2013 Holiday Gift Guide: TOYS!
Toys that push, toys that inspire art, toys that look like famous geeky characters, and more!
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HIT Entertainment’s 2013 Holiday Preview
HIT Entertainment was in New York City last week to preview their new Thomas the Tank Engine and Mike the Knight toys.
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“Live” Maps of UK Railways to Aid Your Procrastination
A collection of maps at Train Times show the approximate real-time positions of trains on the London Underground and those at and surrounding many major UK stations.
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Toca Boca delivers another quality kids’ app with Toca Train.
Continue ReadingAre You the Parent of a Train Geek? Throw a Birthday Party at a Tourist Railroad!
I almost didn’t post anything for Birthday Week. It wasn’t until GeekMom Kelly posted about banning the goody bags that I remembered a clever goody bag idea… which was in itself part of a wonderful birthday experience for my oldest son. In 2006, when the family was living in Apex, North Carolina, we had the […]
Continue ReadingSpending Time With Walter Wick
Back in our preschool years of parenting, my family spent a great deal of time with Walter Wick’s books. To be truthful, we spent a great deal of time with a great many books–almost universally those that created anthropomorphized-machine worlds filled with earnest steam engines, recalcitrant backhoes, or steam shovels of derring-do. Mr. Wick’s I […]
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