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"My nourishment comes from doing those things that I know will feed my spirit and from believing that some part of my writer’s mind will be at work no matter what I am doing."
- Phyllis Roots
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Additional Reviews by Anna include:
Nurture Your Child’s Gift: Inspired Parenting
The Path of Parenting
The Good Son
A Tribe Apart
Best Friends, Worst Enemies
The Dreaming Child: Jin Shin
The Shelter of Each Other
The VBAC Companion
Cherishing Our Daughters
My Sense of Silence
Secrets of the Baby Whisperer
The Story of Chopsticks
26 Fairmont Avenue
Cut
Great Books About Things Kids Love
Galaxy Quest
Toy Story 2
Elmo in Grouchland
The Iron Giant
Tarzan
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From the moment we realize we are pregnant, we start making choices for our children. As they grow, the choices become more complex and more numerous. Books, music, films and other product reviews can guide us to making good choices for our families. Here are a few samples of the dozens of reviews I've written over the years. Please contact me if you are interested in more reviews.
Reviews include:
Big Purple Mommy: Nurturing Our Creative Work, Our Children, and Ourselves
Lullabies for Little Visionaries
Inner Child Cards: A Journey into Fairy Tales, Myths & Nature
Read more of Anna's books and music reviews on:
Inspired Parenting
New-Works
Big Purple Mommy: Nurturing Our Creative Work, Our Children, and Ourselves
By Coleen Hubbard
(Perigree Books, 2001
ISBN 0-399-52662-5)
In our collective mythology, artists dwell in the fringes of sanity. We nod sagely at the stories of Van Gogh's psychosis, Emily Dickinson's' depression, Steinbeck's alcoholism, and ballet dancers everywhere suffering from eating disorders. The implication is that artistic genius comes from great anguish. We honor the starving, insane artists and consider those not exhibiting anti-social behavior s not true artists.
So what's a car-pooling mother of three supposed to do with her creative juices? According to Coleen Hubbards' new book, Big Purple Mommy, we're supposed to throw out the myths and get down to work -painting, sculpting, writing, dancing and playing our way through motherhood. We can be creative and be caretakers and not be crazy. (Read more..)
Lullabies for Little Visionaries
Danae Shanti and the Inspired Child Choir
Kid's Music review
With inspirational lyrics, palpable intention and clear music, Danae Shanti's CD, Lullabies for Little Visionaries crosses age boundaries and reaches all of our hearts. (Read more...)
Inner Child Cards: A Journey into Fairy Tales, Myths & Nature
Written by Isha Lerner & Mark Lerner
Illustrated by Christopher Guilfoil
When Little Red Riding Hood meets the Big Bad Wolf on the way to her grandmother's house, we hold our breath. Will she follow his advice and go off in the woods to gather flowers so he has time to devour grandmother? We've heard the story many times and yet we eagerly anticipate the ending when the woodsman cuts open the wolf and frees Red Riding Hood and her grandmother and the evil wolf dies. As with all fairy tales, much of the power is in the retelling. (Read more…)
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