Before: After: Before & After: Without a lot of time during baby naps, I do what I can to entertain myself.

JoanMarie and I have no idea where we first heard of the band Great Big Sea , but if you've hung out with us for any length of time, you...

Superauthor James Patterson recently announced the winners of his Dollars for Scholars contest. College-bound students wrote essays describ...

The Spring 2011 Children’s Books issue of Publishers Weekly has arrived! Relying on the brief descriptions allowed for each title, here are...

Two fans sent me links to movie trailers they put together for Thirteen Reasons Why featuring Selena Gomez as Hannah. As you'll see, th...

I recently purchased a box of 100 Slim Jims because I assumed they'd be snatched up like that at an event I was attending. But by the e...

Soon after the news broke, a fan sent me a movie poster she designed, which I think captures the tone perfectly. In fact, the setting and th...

On Wednesday, someone named Angelica left the 13,000th review on ThirteenReasonsWhy.com . Thanks, Angelica! And that means four of the 202 ...

To honor this day of sharing the love, I wanted to share with all of you my absolute favorite love song. It's been my favorite since I f...

In the summer of 2009, I bought the DVD of Disney’s Princess Protection Program . The guy behind the counter asked if it was a birthday gift...

( Crank it up for the movie experience! ) Each time those rays of light peek over the horizon and the horns begin to play, the hairs on the ...

***UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF POST*** Have you been to the Thirteen Reasons Why website recently? Along with the YouTube videos, Hannah's map,...

Harold and his purple crayon take on Goodnight Moon (a loving spoof of the book by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd) A note from Harold:...

Harold and his purple crayon take on Not a Stick (a loving spoof of the book by Antoinette Portis) A note from Harold: Sometimes reality can...

Harold and his purple crayon take on Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (a loving spoof of the book by Mo Willems) A note from Harold: ...

Harold and his purple crayon take on No, David! (a loving spoof of the book by David Shannon) A note from Harold: If you want to mimic me, a...

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