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5 Tech Picks You May Have Missed
We're in awe at how far technology has come, even in just the past year. Our favorite picks from the past week are so 2012. And that's a really awesome thing.
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There was an old lady who lived in a graphic novel...
My middle son loves graphic novels. It really gets him excited about reading, and I'm certainly down with that. I want him to excitedly pick out a book from the library and read it on the ride home.
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A little bitty, crumbly-jumbly sweet treat of a book
What do you get when you combine a kindhearted elephant, some hard-working mice, and the Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator of Click Clack Moo?
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Web Coolness - TV for tots, chat with Michelle Obama, and tips for Halloween
Here are some things we've liked reading around the web this week. We hope you will too.
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Your kid: The next Paul Klee
I've tried to encourage my tween's intense love of all things art since she was a wee thing. To fuel her fire, we have loads of art books from "open-ended" coloring books
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Shel Silverstein rises again
I have no idea how missed the huge fact that a new book from Shel Silverstein was released posthumously, a few weeks ago, especially considering he's my favorite modern children's author of all time.
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Audio books for toddler? Reader Q&A
My daughter is turning 3 next month and is starting to outgrow her
naps! I am trying to enforce quiet time on the days she won't
nap, and someone gave me the idea of letting her listen to audio books
as her quiet time activity.
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McSweeney's is turning little book lovers into book writers too
After our local Border's bookstore closed, I became a bit "woe is me" about the future of books. I'm one of those people who just can't imagine sitting down my kids for a bedtime story with my iPad in my lap.
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A Zeal of Zebras for your kid's zeal for animals
When I explained to my daughter that every group of animals has its own name, she was absolutely entranced. "You know, like a gaggle of geese. Or a flock of seagulls," said me, Mrs. Smartypants. Just before realizing that I couldn't name a third.
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A Street Through Time : Timeless
Butt Art that isn't raunchy, promise
As all parents know, kids laugh at the word "butt." There is something very funny about a word that is used constantly as a conjunction, a sometime preposition and also as a word for your behind. What could be funnier than that to a five year old?
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