Like most bloggers, I have no credentials for this column other than a love of books, two children (girls – ages 6 and 4) and enough time (I hope) to write about the combination. In truth, I wouldn’t believe that I have enough time except that I’ve been doing a blog on web analytics for my company for the past year as well as publishing quite a few technical articles in that space. It’s gotten me writing again, something I’ve always loved, but frankly the subject matter while interesting in its way is undeniably dry.
So here’s the deal. I going to write about the childrens books I’m reading with and to my girls. Since I work next door to a library, I check out about 10 books a week and we usually read them all more than once. So I’m not going to focus on new books or old books or any other kind of children’s books. Mostly, I’m going to focus on books we like. I’m not going to write about books that I don’t think are worth reading unless a book is well-known and particularly obnoxious (very rare!).
Mainly, I hope to give other parents some ideas for good books when they go to the library. That’s about it. So if you have books you think we’d enjoy or if you violently (dis)agree with anything in the blog – please let me know. Comments are very welcome – suggestions even more so!