Celebrating 65 Years of BRIO Trains!
Live out your childhood dreams, on your own or with your child or grandchild, with BRIO’s new set celebrating 65 years of BRIO trains.
Continue ReadingLive out your childhood dreams, on your own or with your child or grandchild, with BRIO’s new set celebrating 65 years of BRIO trains.
Continue Reading‘Sabotage on the Solar Express’ and ‘Epic Adventures’ (a non-fiction spin-off) add to my favorite ongoing middle-grade series this month.
Continue ReadingAs Spooky Season wanes and the Holidays kick off in earnest Sophie, Nivi, Lisa, and Scott have been reading a wide variety of books.
Continue Reading‘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.
Continue ReadingThis month I picked up the next books in the Adventures on Trains series: ‘Kidnap on the California Comet’ and ‘Murder on the Safari Star’.
Continue ReadingDeluxe Board Game Train Sets are high-quality replacement train sets for many popular train board games inspired by traditional locomotives.
Continue ReadingBring an element of international travel glamour to your holiday season with the Eurostar electric train set from Hornby.
Continue ReadingI’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.
Continue ReadingThe Hogwarts Express electric train set is a model railway starter set designed for older collectors and model railway enthusiasts.
Continue ReadingThe Wizarding World Wrebbit 3D Puzzles are a range of 3D puzzles that allow you to build famous Harry Potter series buildings and vehicles.
Continue ReadingWe 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.
Continue ReadingThe “world’s first mathematical railway,” ‘The Brain Train’ from The Happy Puzzle Company is an easy-to-understand single-player puzzle game.
Continue ReadingTrue train geeks don’t really outgrow their early childhood obsessions. They just change the focus to more grown up styles of train.
Continue ReadingWelcome 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.
Continue ReadingA birthday party using licensed characters is no mean feat, as GeekMom Sarah found out while planning her son’s Thomas themed party.
Continue ReadingToys that push, toys that inspire art, toys that look like famous geeky characters, and more!
Continue ReadingHIT Entertainment was in New York City last week to preview their new Thomas the Tank Engine and Mike the Knight toys.
Continue ReadingA 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.
Continue ReadingToca Boca delivers another quality kids’ app with Toca Train.
Continue ReadingI 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 […]
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