Here at Bash And Lucy, we’re counting our many blessings over the holidays and focusing on ways to encourage fortunate children like Michael to give to the less fortunate (both human and four-legged). One of the ways to help kids focus on giving is by reading “The Sparkle Box,” a
The power of friendship is the focus of the child’s dog book, “Mr. Spunky and His Friends,” that Michael and Mia review on YouTube. This is one of a number of children’s books that Michael and friends have reviewed in response to requests from children’s book authors. They have a
We visited a class of second- and third-grade book lovers last week, and talked to them about why and how we wrote and published “Bash And Lucy Fetch Confidence.” As you can see in this photo, Michael, age 5, (“Bash and Lucy” co-author), brought along a stack of his favorite
Michael, age 5, and Mia, age 13, review “Nate The Great and The Big Sniff” in this video. “Nate the Great and the Big Sniff” is a great book about Nate and his very important detective-dog. But Nate’s canine assistant disappears. What should Detective Nate do? As Michael says, Nate
We’re excited that we raised $300 for the Oregon Humane Society at our book release party and benefit Sunday. On Thursday, Michael will receive a “Certificate of Appreciation” from the Humane Society and will learn all about how such donations are spent. The party featured caricatures by our talented illustrator,
In this book review for kids (on youtube), Michael, age 5, gives the kids’ dog book “Walter The Farting Dog Banned from the Beach” 10 stars, on a scale of 1 to 5! And he gives the book a bonus fart rating. We share these book reviews for kids in
We are thrilled that “Bash and Lucy Fetch Confidence” was featured by KATU-TV and The Oregonian–on the front page of the Living section–last weekend. We’re also excited about the 95 Facebook “likes” and 15 “tweets” on the online version of the Oregonian story. You can read the Oregonian story here:
To celebrate International Literacy Day (Sept. 9), here at Bash And Lucy we’re sharing some of our book reviews by kids age 5 to 13. One of our goals is to inspire in young kids a love of books–especially dog books. Our book review efforts were launched by book lover