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About the Mom’s Choice Awards:

The Mom’s Choice Awards is known for establishing the benchmark of excellence in family-friendly media, products, and services.  This annual competition recognizes authors, inventors, companies, parents, and others for their efforts in creating quality family-friendly media products and services.  The Mom’s choice Awards seal helps families and educators navigate the vast array of products and services and make informed decisions.

Panel of Judges:

The prominent panel of judges includes education, media, and other experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors, scientists, and others.    

 Judges:

Dr. Twila C. Liggett
Ten-time Emmy-winner, professor and founder of PBS’s Reading Rainbow

Julie Aigner-Clark
Creator of Baby Einstein and The Safe Side Project

Jodee Blanco
New York Times best-selling author

LeAnn Thieman
Motivational speaker and co-author of seven Chicken Soup For The Soul books

Priscilla Dunstan

Creator of the Dunstan Baby Language. See Priscilla on Oprah.

Patricia Rossi

Etiquette expert and host of NBC’s Manners Minute

Dr. Letitia S. Wright, D.C.

Author, movie producer and host of the Wright Place TV Show

Dr. Wright is ranked in the top 50 Most Influential Women in Social Media.

Catherine Whitcher, M.Ed.

Special needs expert and founder of Precision Education, Inc.

Bettie B. Youngs, Ph.D., Ed.D.

Pulitzer Prize nominated author of 34 books and director of Professional Development, Inc.

Carley Knobloch
  Certified Life Coach and founder of Mothercraft: Coaching the Modern Mom

Our Winners

Juvenille L1 Books (Ages 5-8)

Metu and Lee Learn about Breast Cancer

Dr. Shenin Sachedina

Metu and Lee Learn about Breast Cancer is a children’s book writen for children, ages 5 years and above, whose mothers have been diagnosed with breast cancer. It discusses surgery, chemotherapy , radiation, and the child’s fears all in easy to understand terms. It is written by Dr. Shenin Sachedina, a board certified breast surgeon . It is illustrated with characters like chemo cammando and radiation rod. Other characters include good cells and bad cells.

Just a Baseball Game (Project Play Books)

Jesse Graber, Marlene F. Byrne

Treasure Hunt takes readers on an exciting journey through Sam’s house as he and his friends hunt for clues and find hidden treasures. Kids will enjoy learning to play treasure hunt as they look for the clues on each page. Sam’s favorite babysitter, Clare, creates a treasure hunt that has the kids searching through bedrooms and toy chests for the next clue. Everyone in the gang contributes in finding the special treasure revealed at the end of the story. The book comes with suggestions for clues that parents and children can use to create their own treasure hunts at home. Project Play books were created to inspire families and neighborhoods to play backyard games that demand imagination and foster creativity so children can channel those skills into their adult lives. This same spirit of adventure and creative play are the foundation of all the stories and backyard games in the Project Play series.

Follow the Leader

Illustrated by Jesse Graber Marlene Byrne

Follow the Leader gives a new spin to an old game and gets children thinking

creatively. Readers will follow Sam through Edgebrook as he picks up his pals and entertains the gang with this timeless game. The kids use their imagination to change the rules and work together as they navigate through the neighborhood. The story is meant to inspire kids to play with their friends in their own backyard and get a new generation of children out to play. Project Play books were created to inspire families and neighborhoods to play backyard games that demand imagination and foster creativity so children can channel those skills into their adult lives. This same spirit of adventure and creative play is the foundation of all the stories and backyard games in the Project Play series.

Childrens Picture Books

Sunny Bunnies

By Margie Blumberg

Summer’s here and these two sunny bunnies can’t wait to dig their toes into the sandiest spot in Carrot Cake Park. There, with the big sister leading the way, they’ll build a castle, fly a kite and, of course, jump the waves! This endearing rhyming tale with its cheerful illustrations captures their day perfectly–from the moment they fling their flip-flops until, home again, they say good night . . . almost!

The ABCs of Yoga for Kids

By Teresa Anne Power

Children today are faced with overstimulation as they strive to keep up with the demands of our fast-paced society. Practicing simple yoga postures is the ideal way for kids to naturally unwind and obtain physical activity at the same time. With The ABCs of Yoga for Kids , children can practice yoga, a non-competive form of exercise, while learning the alphabet and reading lyrical explanations of the actual yoga poses. Yoga helps children become calmer and more self-aware. In addition, it develops their flexibility, coordination, focus and strength. The ABCs of Yoga for Kids uses the alphabet, rhyming vignettes, and colorful illustrations to introduce children to basic yoga postures in a kid-friendly way. Endorsed by Sinjin Smith, Olympian & World Champion Volleyball Player, as well as David Simon, M.D., Medical Director of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing and author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga and Free to Love, Free to Heal , this book appeals to both children and adults seeking to incorporate healthy activity into their daily lifestye.

 

Airport Mouse 4-book Series

Ruth E. Clark

 

Airport Mouse is left behind in the old airport terminal after construction of a new terminal. To his surprise, he is suddenly scooped up by Mr. Michelson who “saves” him and they become Mick and Manny of Maintenance. The story of Airport Mouse is an adventure of values and the meaning of friendship.

Adult Books

Lose the Diet: Transform Your Body

Kathy Balland

Are you tired of yo-yo dieting? You have the power to look and feel great without dieting. With this book, your weight and your life can bring you peace of mind. You ll find answers that will end your need for dieting and uncomfortable food deprivation that ultimately leads to weight gain. Instead, you ll find the good health and happiness that you deserve. Lose the Diet is your complete, easy-to-use guide for reconnecting with yourself and discovering the power to achieve and maintain a healthy weight without diets. Drop the diets and the weight in a healthy and natural way. Find out why deprivation doesn t work. Learn about the mind-body-soul connections effect on weight. Discover that happiness leads to a healthy weight rather than the other way around. Insightful tools and information will help you find balance from the inside out.

Critical Conditions:

The Essential Hospital Guide to Get Your Loved One Out Alive

Martine Ehrenclou

Hospital patient care has become hazardous to the patient’s health. There must be someone, a family member or good friend, to oversee and monitor the patient’s medical care. Learn how to prevent medical errors, medication mistakes, hospital-acquired infectious diseases, and much more. Reach the doctors when you really need them—every time. Navigate the hospital with confidence.

Critical Conditions is a step-by-step guide based on over 150 interviews with registered nurses, physicians and hospital staff, Ms. Ehrenclou’s own experiences with hospitalized family members and hundreds of hours of research. It is a book for family members written by a family member who has been there. A reported quarter of a million deaths in hospitals nationwide were found to be preventable (The Fifth Annual Health Grades Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study, 2008). If someone has a parent, spouse, sibling or child in the hospital, they must get actively involved in the patient’s care to prevent medical errors. Hospitalized patients are recovering and cannot do this for themselves.