An educational book that children of all ages will delight in coloring while becoming aware of the plight of twenty-six different endangered species The text, written in first person, states their unique characteristics, and why they struggle to survive. Illustrations are powerfully depict both aspects.
Author: FCA Editor
Albert Counts! APP for Albert’s Insomnia
Albert’s Insomnia makes learning and teaching math fun and effective. We have truly gamified arithmetic and getting great reports in like, “the kids love it and we had a 23% increase in computational proficiency in just two weeks!”
Albert’s Insomnia APP and Game
Albert’s Insomnia makes learning and teaching math fun and effective. We have truly gamified arithmetic and getting great reports in like, “the kids love it and we had a 23% increase in computational proficiency in just two weeks!”
FarFaria
FarFaria is an iPad app that encourages children ages 2-9 to develop a passion for reading. FarFaria’s World of Stories gives kids access to over 600 amazing books with a swipe of a finger. With unlimited reading from FarFaria’s growing library, story time has never been easier.
Promo Codes:
Promo code 1:
Email: FamilyChoice12014
Term: 3 months
URL: farfaria://redeem?code=7d1b25
Promo code
Email: FamilyChoice22014
Term: 3 months
URL: farfaria://redeem?code=c280de
Carla and Leo’s World of Dance
Red Velvet Lover’s Cookbook
Customers can’t seem to get enough red velvet. Like cupcakes, donuts, cake balls, and whoopie pies, red velvet creations are both homey and comforting and hip and cool. They are the latest retro-baking craze.
Deborah Harroun’s Red Velvet Lover’s Cookbook is the first and only book devoted to this hot topic. She has perfected the classics, as well as a host of new, inventive uses for this popular combination. In 50 recipes, and with full-color photos, Harroun has come up with all manner of red velvet donuts, waffles, pancakes, muffins, biscuits, icebox cakes, mug cakes, cheesecakes, cookies, brownies, and even a molten lava cake. Red velvet cannoli, eclairs, snowballs, churros, and truffles are the icing on the…cake, and provide red velvet lovers with just about any recipe they will ever need.
Gold
“Gold” if the first book in “A Collection of Colors”. Go on a journey as you dive into the imagination of a young girl who discovers a life lesson that although gold is an awesome color, it isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Matthew Perry Returns to TV
Let’s face it. Matthew Perry will always be associated with the tremendous sitcom Friends and his character of Chandler Bing. That show ran for ten successful seasons. Since the show wrapped Matthew has not been idle, but has yet to find a show that is as popular or half as popular as the classic sitcom. But he hasn’t given up and has high hopes for his new series. “I’m doing The Odd Couple because my attempt at being a movie star failed,” Perry joked with journalists recently.
Legendary scribe Neil Simon whose play was subsequently turned into an award-winning 1968 movie starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau originally wrote The Odd Couple. In 1970 Tony Randall and Jack Klugman brought the fictional duo to TV for a five-year long sitcom. There have been further incarnations featuring the OCD Felix Unger and the messy yet endearing Oscar Madison, and now Matthew Perry steps into the role of Oscar with Thomas Lennon as the ever-loveable and quirky Felix in the newest incarnation of the famous pair.
Now, with Perry executive producing the sitcom and starring as the slob Oscar Madison, he is back on TV with a series he hopes will run for several seasons. “There was a little bit of muscle memory,” Perry admitted when asked about stepping back into another sitcom, “but you’d think after doing this for 25 years, or however long I’ve been doing it, I wouldn’t sweat profusely if a joke didn’t work, but I still do, and I still get nervous before shows.”
So just how did this show come about in the first place? Perry explained, “Well, the whole thing started, I was driving around in my car and it’s really weird how this whole thing started. I thought it would be great to remake The Odd Couple. I had a cast in mind, a network in mind, and then found out that it was actually being developed at CBS, and so almost everything that I thought of in the car came true.”
Most people would think Matthew Perry would be more of the Felix character, because that is closer to the Chandler character he created in Friends, but the actor admitted in real life he’s more like the Oscar character. “It’s been a dream come true to play Oscar Madison. I mean, it’s big shoes to fill, but we’re doing our own thing and playing it differently [from the other incarnations].”
On the set, “There’s really an open atmosphere of creativity,” he acknowledged. “If the craft service person comes up with a funny joke, it’s in the show.”
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Francine Brokaw has been covering all aspects of the entertainment business for 20 years. She also writes about technology and has been a travel writer for the past 12 years. She has been published in national and international newspapers and magazines as well as internet websites. She has written her own book, Beyond the Red Carpet The World of Entertainment Journalists, from Sourced Media Books.
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Time will tell whether Matthew Perry’s Oscar Madison character will be as endearing to fans as Chandler Bing. But he is definitely giving it his all.
The Odd Couple premiers on CBS February 19, 2015.
Strange Magic – Movie Review
We can’t help with whom we fall in love, or can we? Well, with a little help from a love potion our lives can be changed forever. Or not. Strange Magic is a magical, enchanting animated musical for the entire family. It’s truly entertaining and absolutely adorable.
From LucasFilm and the world of Disney, this story is colorful, delightful, and definitely musical, as it contains a host of pop songs from the last 60 years. George Lucas has said, “I love telling stories with music. Strange Magic may take a different approach than we did with American Graffiti, but I had just as much fun.” And there is plenty of music in this movie.
Strange Magic is a fairy tale with plenty of interesting characters including fairies, imps, elves, and goblins. It begins with Princess Marianne (voiced by Evan Rachel Wood) who is preparing to marry the very handsome Roland (voiced by Sam Palladio). But when Marianne discovers all Roland is interested in is being king and having an army, the wedding is called off and Marianne vows never to fall in love again.
Marianne’s sister Dawn (Meredith Anne Bull) is filled with love and falls in love at the drop of a hat. Sunny (Elijah Kelley), an elf, is in love with Dawn but she doesn’t know it. And Roland is still intent on making Marianne marry him so he can become king.
All of this takes place in a land divided. There is the Fairy Kingdom and there is the Dark Forest. In the Dark Forest are all kinds of creatures and critters ruled by the Bog King (Alan Cumming). A long time ago the Bog King captured the Sugar Plum Fairy (Kristin Chenoweth) because of, well, I won’t give any spoiler alerts here. But I will say the Sugar Plum Fairy has the ability to create a love potion, which is supposed to make someone fall in love when they are dusted with it.
Without giving any more information away, I will say that the story then revolves around the two sides fighting over the potion. There are some really fun little critters in both lands, and when they are put together, well, they are really fun to watch.
Okay, so there is the fun little story, plenty of magic, colorful scenes and cute characters. But then add to that the piece de resistance: the music. This is definitely a musical and the songs work perfectly into the story: “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” “C’mon Marianne,” “Mistreated,” “Love is Strange,” “I Wanna Dance with Somebody,” “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch),” and more.
The moral of the movie is “Everybody deserves to be loved.” This is a film that is rated PG for some action and scary images, however the kids I spoke with after the screening (ages 5-12) loved it. Strange Magic is pure entertainment.
About the Author
Francine Brokaw has been covering all aspects of the entertainment business for 20 years. She also writes about technology and has been a travel writer for the past 12 years. She has been published in national and international newspapers and magazines as well as internet websites. She has written her own book, Beyond the Red Carpet The World of Entertainment Journalists, from Sourced Media Books.
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Watching the Nighttime Come CD GIVEAWAY
Fiddle player/vocalist Suz Slezak is a core member of the award-winning indie folk band David Wax Museum. (David Wax Museum is a cutting edge ensemble that seems to be on practically everyone’s “next big thing” list.) Watching the Nighttime Come is Suz’s debut solo album, and it’s absolutely gorgeous.
In addition to original material written individually and collaboratively by Suz and her husband, David Wax, the track list includes a celebrated Mexican lullaby, a 16th century round, and Leonard Cohen favorite, and more. Suz created the album as a musical offering for friends who are also young parents, and the project took on an even more personal dimension when Suz became pregnant with daughter Calliope.
This is a lullaby album that is also a compelling collection of music for parents. Other highlights include “Jessie’s Waltz,” a fine fiddling instrumental composed by Suz for a friend’s wedding, which features phrases tinged with poetic melancholy. Thomas Tallis’s “Canon” presents a round from the pen of one of the greatest Elizabethan composers, here sung in a direct, uncomplicated style that brings it up-to-date with contemporary life.
We have some CDs to giveaway.
To be eligible to win a copy of Watching the Nighttime Come, email us at [email protected] with “Watching the Nighttime Giveaway” in the title. Please supply your name, address, phone number and email address (so we can let you know if you are a winner).
The deadline for this giveaway is February 10, 2015.
About the Author
Francine Brokaw has been covering all aspects of the entertainment business for 20 years. She also writes about technology and has been a travel writer for the past 12 years. She has been published in national and international newspapers and magazines as well as internet websites. She has written her own book, Beyond the Red Carpet The World of Entertainment Journalists, from Sourced Media Books.
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