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KIM'S NEW BOOK IS OUT!
Boston Baby, A Field Guide for Urban Parents
ORDER IT HERE: www.unionparkpress.com!
RECENT APPREARANCES
May 9: Wheelock Family Theatre
Feb. 13: Roslindale Library, 11 a.m.
Feb. 19: Coolidge Corner Theatre, 12:30 p.m.
March 5: Aura, 5:30 p.m.
March 11: Blue Bunny, 7 p.m.
March 13: Regent Theatre 25th Anniversary, 10:30 a.m.
REVIEWS
What the Boston Globe says:
Children love repetition, as anyone who’s had to sit through repeated viewings of “The Incredibles’’ or “Finding Nemo’’ can attest. Adults, not so much. Thus, parenthood becomes an endless quest to discover pastimes that will interest (and, with any luck, educate) the children and keep the grownups from sinking into a glassy-eyed stupor. So let us now praise Kim Foley MacKinnon, author of the new book, “Boston Baby: A Field Guide for Urban Parents,’’ for doing all the legwork necessary to keep local families entertained for months, perhaps years to come.
Read the entire article here!
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Kim Foley MacKinnon is a long-time freelance editor, journalist and travel writer. She is the former DailyCandy Boston Kids editor.
She has written for the Boston Globe, Global Traveler, Business Traveller, Lola, AAA Horizons, Boston Herald, Parents magazine, Italy magazine, DailyCandy Boston, Beverage Business and many other publications as well as writing guidebooks. Travel, food and lifestyle writing are her specialties. Often, her own photos accompany her work. Last summer, she wrote a new book for LifeTips called 101 Luxury Hotel Tips.
BACKGROUND
In addition to DailyCandy and freelancing, Kim is an editor for www.Gayot.com, a leading food, travel and lifestyle website. She serves as the editor of Travelworld International Magazine (www.travelworldmagazine.com), the magazine for the North American Travel Journalist Association (www.natja.com). She was a contributing writer for Travel Muse, www.TravelMuse.com and has written for Trazzler(www.trazzler.com/trips/users/kim.foley.mackinnon).
She is the former managing editor of Boston Spirit magazine and the former award-winning listings & entertainment editor for the Boston Parents' Paper. She's also the author of Boston for Families (2004). Her first book, A Parent´s Guide to Boston, was published in 2002.
