by George from BooksReview | Dec 8, 2025 | Book Reviews
Jealousy is one of those things you can’t explain to a two-year-old. You can’t sit them down and talk through the concept. But you can read them a book where a mouse feels left out because her best friend is playing with someone else, and they get it...
by George from BooksReview | Nov 18, 2025 | Book Reviews
My daughter could recite The Gruffalo before she could read. The rhymes stuck in her head the way song lyrics do. “He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws.” She’d say it at dinner, in the car, to strangers...
by George from BooksReview | Nov 12, 2025 | Book Reviews
Back in 2020, explaining the pandemic to my kids was one of the harder parenting challenges. They noticed dad wearing masks, schools closing, and grandparents we couldn’t visit. We needed a way to talk about it without scaring them. That’s when I found...
by George from BooksReview | Oct 16, 2025 | Book Reviews
My daughter was four when she asked why lions have to be scary. We had just finished a book where the lion chased everyone away, and she looked genuinely bothered by it. I pulled How to Be a Lion off the shelf that night. It became one of those books we read so many...
by George from BooksReview | Oct 13, 2025 | Book Reviews
Most agile books give you theory. They explain Scrum ceremonies, Kanban principles, and sprint planning in clean diagrams that look nothing like your actual workplace. Henrik Kniberg did something different. He wrote about a real project with real problems, and showed...
by George from BooksReview | Oct 9, 2025 | Book Reviews
Animalphabet was one of the first alphabet books that actually held my kids’ attention past the letter C. Most alphabet books are forgettable. This one isn’t. Julia Donaldson and Sharon King-Chai created something special here. It’s not just an ABC...
by George from BooksReview | Apr 15, 2020 | Famous People Reading Lists
Seth Godin has shaped how a generation of marketers and entrepreneurs think. He’s written 20+ bestsellers (Purple Cow, Linchpin, This Is Marketing, The Dip), built one of the most-read blogs on the internet, and consistently pushes the idea that remarkable work...
by George from BooksReview | Apr 15, 2020 | Famous People Reading Lists
Elon Musk has said in multiple interviews that books shaped his worldview more than any single experience. As a kid in South Africa, he read for hours every day. When he ran out of books at the local library, he started on encyclopedias. Before founding SpaceX, he...
