Bestselling author Jean Brashear’s The Goddess of Fried Okra (4/5 stars) is today’s $1.99 Kindle Daily Deal for adults. From Amazon: Grief. Hope. Love. Sword fights. And the crisp glory of fried okra. Ex-cocktail waitress and “convenience store professional” Eudora “Pea” O’Brien is filled with grief and regret, low on cash and all alone. Headed … Read more
We’re happy to share this post from our sister site, Kids Corner @ Kindle Nation Daily, where you can find all things Kindle for kids and teens, every day! Student and teacher reviews are sponsored by Kids Corner Book of The Week – Piper Kelley’s Enchanting Fantasy The Gloom: Book One of The Gloom Trilogy … Read more
Today’s Kindle Daily Deal for adults is the bestselling mystery Collision of Evil, by John Le Beau. This book has an average review rating of 4/5 stars and is priced at $1.99 today only. From Amazon: As evening falls against the majestic backdrop of the Bavarian Alps, Charles Hirter, an American tourist, is savagely murdered. … Read more
Boys and girls alike usually go through a phase of being fascinated by bugs. For some kids, the phase never ends and they grow up to become entomologists, biologists or ecologists. So why not encourage that early interest in insects with these Amazon Instant Videos? A Bug’s Life (G, 4.75/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99 … Read more
We’re happy to share this post from our sister site, Kids Corner @ Kindle Nation Daily, where you can find all things Kindle for kids and teens, every day! Last week we announced that Piper Kelley’s Enchanting Fantasy The Gloom: Book One of The Gloom Trilogy is our Kids Corner Book of the Week and … Read more
Lauren Baratz-Logsted’s The Sisters 8 book series, for beginning readers grade 1 and up, is all about the adventures of octuplet sisters. It’s a great series to get early-reader girls excited about books, and similar in tone to Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. In these books, the kids face Big Questions, solve problems … Read more
Today’s $1.99 Kindle Daily Deal for kids is Goodnight, Little Monster (5/5 stars, ages 3 and up). Note that this book is also part of the Prime Lending Library, and has the Kindle Text Pop-Up feature, too. From Amazon: Little Monster needs to get ready for bed. That means howling at the moon, scrubbing his scales, … Read more
One point made very strongly by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in Amazon’s press conference this week was that while Amazon of course wants to make devices its customers will like and want to buy, if customers don’t find themselves actually wanting to use the device very much, the device is a failure. It doesn’t matter how … Read more