In October 2010, I reviewed Tony DiTerlizzi's wonderful sci-fi adventure, The Search for WondLa. It's a book intended for middle-grade readers, but my wife and I absolutely loved it, and it was a long wait for the second volume. Well, I'm ecstatic to announce that it's finally here.

K2 so desperately and hilariously needed to go to the bathroom, but she also wanted to know rightthisminute why they had canceled "that movie," The Man From U.N.C.L.E.. Because we found this coloring book in a box outside the library...

One of the keys to success in life is instilling good habits. We are creatures of habit and our kids are creatures of habit. We may like to think that our daily actions result from deliberation and willpower. But mostly they are the products of our unconscious habits.

The sun is setting slowly and the kids are bouncing off the walls, ready to head upstairs to bed, but before we can tuck them in for the night, there’s one more thing I have to do.  I’m not really hopeful … Continue reading →...

I'm not much for paranormal fiction (except, I suppose, zombies). I never read a lot of vampire fiction — be it Anne Rice or Stephenie Meyer — and so I've largely avoided the various books about other things that go bump in the night. But in the past few months ...

I showed this to the kid last night, and she was all, "Kickstarter? Back when I was 4, all we had to self-publish our homemade storybooks was blurb.com!" Actually, she said, "See, that kid gets to chew gum, and...

Does anyone else find the idea of a book trailer a little odd? I do. Apparently I am not alone, so does Neil Stephenson author of Snow Crash.

Awesome fur coat-wearing, goth weirdo writer/artist/illustrator/playwright Edward Gorey used to make stuffed animals for friends and the cast and crew of his plays. Rarely, he also made them for sale, like the 26 handsewn, rice-filled Figbash dolls th...

Daniel Pinkwater, an icon among geek readers, has always said that his audience is smart. This week he heard from several fans in New York State, who were surprised to find an excerpt from his novel Borgel on the state's English Language Arts test for 8th graders.

he GeekDad community at Wired.com is committed to helping you raise geek generation 2.0. Back in March of 2012 we put out a post of our favorite books to read aloud to our kids before the age of ten. Well the post turned out to be a bit of a ...