Super Mario Galaxy was recently awarded Game of the Year by www.ign.com (a premiere entertainment website), and let me tell you, it earned it.Super Mario Galaxy is the best game I've played for the Wii (I've played about 30-35).  The levels are innovative and entertaining.  The game keeps you playing with the ability to earn up to 120 stars by completing various different worl...

Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles is a game every Resident Evil fan must own.  The game chronicles the Umbrella Corporation which is the company responsible for the viral outbreak that players follow through the Resident Evil games.  The game is a rail shooter.  You are on a fixed path and your focus is shooting zombies and finding hidden loot throughout each level.  Yo...

Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan is my current favorite children's book series. I'm a children's librarian, so that is saying something. The Lightning Thief is the first book.This series is Harry Potter meets the Greek Gods and Goddesses.  The Lightning Thief explores twelve-year-old Percy's first adventure after he discovers there is something spec...

Zelda: The Twilight Princess was the Wii's best launch title by far.  The game is very similar in game play as the last few entries in the series (Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker) with the welcome addition of the Wiimote's interactivity.  You get to swing your sword and aim your crossbow (along with other movements), what more could you need?  How about fantastic graphics wit...

Zack & Wiki is probably the best game no one knows about for the Wii.  But it can be hard, really hard.  This is a puzzle solving game, pure and not so simple.  Zach wants to be a pirate and his flying monkey friend Wiki is here to help him to be the best he can be.The game is made up of a series of puzzles.  You have to do a certain set of tasks in a certain order to co...

It's our fifth year at video game Hogwarts and we finally get to wave our wands!  The absolute best thing about Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for the Wii is the interactivity of your wand...I mean wiimote.  Yes that's right, you move your wiimote in a series of movements to perform your spells.  While I'm confident that real spells are a bit more complicat...

So you're up to your tenth pack of batteries and you've only had your Wii a couple of weeks?  Days?  Then this is the product for you.  The Nyko wiimote charging station is the best quality charger for the price in my opionion.  I've owned mine for well over a year now.  We are just beginning to notice that the batteries are not holding their charge as well ...

As a children's librarian Erec Rex is one of my favorite books to recommend to Harry Potter fans young and old.  The book can be enjoyed by reader's 8 and up, but will probably appeal most to ages 10 and up.Erec is a somewhat like Harry Potter: he doesn't know much about his parents and weird things seem to happen to him.  We meet Erec when he is 12 and first discovers a m...

The Sea of Monsters is the second book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.  This review will contain spoilers from book 1, The Lightning Thief.Percy Jackson is the son of Poseidon, the Greek God of the Sea.  Percy discovered this in the last book after being sent to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for other sons and daughters of the Olympians.Book 2 begins with Percy in seve...

Erec Rex: The Monsters of Otherness is the second book in the Erec Rex series.  In the first book, we leanred about yet another boy with a similar history to that famous boy who lived, Harry Potter.Erec is adopted, weird things happen around him, and yes, there happens to be a world of magic attached to the world we are all more familiar with.  But the similarities end there, well, mo...

The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy-Tale Detectives is the first book in the Sisters Grimm series.  Sisters Sabrina and Daphne have some famous relatives, the Brothers Grimm.  The Brothers worte down all of the oral tradition fairy tales that they came across, which became many of the great tales we know today.  Well, at least historically.  In the books the tales the Brothers reco...