Web Wednesday

Here at GMPL we are always looking for new sites and cool resources to share with our grown-up friends, too.  This week we are featuring Totspot, a totally free and awesome way to share your child's milestones and news with family and friends. 

If you want to share updates with family and friends, Totspot is a neat way to do just that.  Totspot is totally free and private, so you can feel confident when you share pictures of your child.  You can build lists of friends you want to share with using many email providers, and even Facebook. 

Height and weight growth charts, your child's 'firsts', photos, and a place to journal make Totspot an awesome electronic baby book. 

Totspot isn't just for babies or tots, though.  Kids of all ages can have a Totspot page, and may perhaps even create updates of their own when they are older!

Overall, it is a nice, safe, and free way to stay in touch with those you love.  Give it a try here.

A Greyhound of a Girl

There is a ghost in this book, but Tansey is not your average ghost…

Twelve year old Mary O’Hara’s best friend just moved away, she constantly fights with her mother (who uses too many exclamation points!!!), and her granny is dying in the hospital. She’s struggling to say goodbye when an oddly dressed and mysterious young woman, claiming to be the ghost of Mary’s great-grandmother, appears.  She needs Mary’s help.  Soon Mary, her mother, her granny, and her great-grandmother Tansey set off on an unlikey and charming adventure.

Roddy Doyle’s multigenerational story about family relationships, love and saying goodbye is beautifully and simply written.  This is a perfect book for mothers and daughters to read together or for anyone looking for a different sort of ghost story.  

A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle, published by Amulet Books, 2012