How To Grow Your Geek: Parenting and More!

Our teen contributor Darcy Low sent me this great review of the new movie Prince Caspian. Thanks Darcy!

hi hi guys!!
i wanted to write and tell you guys about one of the best movies i seen this year. prince caspian. i saw the first movie and was like wow, this is like lord of the rings with kids my age. hehe. then this came out and i think i like it even more than the first one. I still need to read all the books.

okay so here is what prince caspin is about. and i wont spoil it for anyone not seen it yet. its a year later for the kids that went though the wardrope and discovered narnia. but in narnia its been 100 years! and so much has changed. prince caspin is the next in line to take over the throne from these humans that live in the world of narnia. he has been told that the mythical creatures of narnia are evil and have all been extinx. the stuff of fairy tales and legends. his uncle i guess it is is the one that told him this, eh is evil and wants to be the king. But of course prince caspin is in the way. he trys to have the prince killed but he escapes into the forest where where he meets a dwarf. and atfer some fighting and running he blows this horn that he was told never to use unless it was a dire emergency. This is where it calls back the four kids, the sons of adam and the daughters of eve. (i just love that, sounds so cool.)

Read more… »

 

 Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (153)

Well, I still have bronchitis a bit, but the coughing spells are farther apart. I didn’t help myself any by trying to paint the basement this week as well! I am planning to get a show out to you soon, when I won’t have to edit so much coughing! Thanks for your patience!

 

 Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (164)

Hi everyone! I just wanted to send this out on the feed so you would know that I didn’t podfade. I just got a really nasty case of bronchitis, and lost some of my voice. I will be back with a new show next week. Thanks for listening!

Review by Darcy Low
My best friend Ashley got this book out of our school library and said I soooooooo had to read it. I took it and looked at it and it was like the littlest book I ever seen! But we like same books so I took it home and wow, she was right!!
The story is all about these three kids, Mallory, Simon and Jared. Who are brothers and sister and move into the old run down house after their father leaves their mom. Mallory is the oldest, she is kinda like me, a tomboy dad calls it. She likes Fenching and sports, Simon is the next oldest; he collects insects and loves animals. He is the most happiest about moving because now he can have more room for his pets. (and more pets!) Jared is the youngest, he is the most shy and tends to read and be by himself more. He also got into trouble at his old school, but it sounds to me like it wasn’t his fault.

Read more… »

We are heading to my parent’s farm for a few days, so there won’t be an episode this week. Hopefully I can record some great geeky kid stuff while we are gone, maybe even some classic car-ride discussion.

Have a great week, and we will talk to you all soon!

I will be adding content and rearranging the site soon to make it easier to use this site to find reviews of books, movies, games and tv shows arranged by recommended age. As I get better using WordPress, I will make this site more useable, and hope to provide lots of useful recommendations for geek families.

Thanks to the lovely and talented young Darcy Low, for sending in our first book review. She is a great judge of YA fantasy, and will be sending us a few more reviews soon! Please send in reviews of any material you think is great for younger geeks, and I will be glad to add it to our lists.

Book Review by Darcy Anna Low

From the back of the book:

Citizens of Ember shall be assigned work at twelve years of age. Lina Mayfleet desperately wants to be a messenger. Instead, she draws the dreaded job of Pipeworks laborer, which means she’ll be working in damp tunnels deep underground.

Doon Harrow draws messenger, and asks Lina to trade! Doon wants to be underground. That;s where the generator is, and Doon has ideas on how to fix it. For as long as anyone can remember, the great lights of Ember have kept the endless darkness at bay. But now the lights are beginning to flicker……

Have you ever read a book that is SO good, that you can’t wait to read the next one? That’s this book. It’s the best book I have read so far! The City of Ember is far underground. Which I thought, wow this be really cool to read about. The city itself is falling apart. Things are breaking down and the supplies are running out. But no one knows why things are breaking, or what to do about it. So everyone in the city has started making due, with trading with each other, and keeping everything from string, to paper off of cans to use for writing.

Read more… »