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Children's Books

Guide to great children's books with tips for parents

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Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine

Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine

ISBN13: 9781580625579 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionScience has never been so easy – or so much fun! With The Everything Kids’ Science Experiments Book, all you need to do is gather a few household items and you can recreate dozens of mind-blowing, kid-tested science experiments. High school science teach [...]  
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Flip range, in conjunction with book publishers Penguin and Egmont Press, will launch December 4. Each cartridge will feature six to eight different books by various high profile authors. The first set of titles will include Enid Blyton’s Enchanted Wood series, B.Strange’s Too Ghoul For School series and Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series. Flips are designed to feel like reading a book, with pages flipping over, but will feature various extra...  
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Welcome to the first of two iPhone Gems articles we’re publishing today, looking at a variety of recent and interesting releases for the iPhone and iPod touch. This iPhone Gems focuses on three interactive childrens’ books: two different developers’ takes on the classic song The Itsy Bitsy Spider, and a separate story called The Little Red Hen. We chose to look at these three apps because they all take slightly different spins on…  
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I know that when fans read in Paste Oct '06 that The Decemberists' Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis would put out a children's book "about a talking cat who lives in turn-of-the-century Butte, Montana," many people stopped uploading greenscreen...  
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If you have children, you probably already know about popular picture book creator Jan Brett, who has more than 33 million books in print. Her picture book, The Three Snow Bears, is a retelling of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," set in a traditional Inuit village. Brett includes accurate details about Inuit lives and customs in the picture book. I have long been a fan of Jan Brett's illustrations and her books. Does your family have a...  
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From August 24 through September 18, teens voted for their favorite books in the 2009 Teens' Top Ten online poll. More than 11,000 of them chose Paper Towns as their favorite book. Teens' Top Ten is sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), which is a division of the American Library Association (ALA). YALSA describes Teens' Top Ten as "a 'teen choice' list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the...  
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Among other uses of children's picture books, author and educator Sharron L. McElmeel recommends, "Using picture books to introduce a topic, to build a schematic background for content-area studies, and to develop higher-level thinking skills..." In her book Picture That! From Mendel to Normandy, McElmeel encourages teachers of tweens and teens (grades 4-12) to use picture books across the curriculum and provides guidance as to which children...  
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Seahorse Personalized Invitations & Thank You Notes - $ 20.95 Life is just bubbly under-the-sea! An excellent choice for any mer-child. Swashbuckler Personalized Invitations & Thank You Notes - $ 20.95 Avast, me hearties! There's a party on the poopdeck! Perfect for the swashbuckling pirate in your life. Ages 3-8 years old. Award winning personalized storybooks Create magical memories with just 1 photo in 5 minutes Personalized Books Personalized children's storybooks. 6 delightful stories to choose from $ 39.95   GlitterGills Tuesday Mushroom King Potty Dance Here There Be Pirates The Day that Came to Play My Little Monster See book details new! Personalized Cards ... Read Full Story
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From Children’s Stories to Study Skills: Help Your Children Succeed in School  by: Barbara Freedman-De Vito Introduction As a parent who wants the best for your children, there are undoubtedly many things that you already do every day to help your children succeed in school. The purpose of this article is to provide some practical ideas for you to try. Some of these suggestions may be new to you, many will be familiar, and some are just plain common sense but, hopefully, they will all serve as reminders of the many simple steps you can take that are too often taken for granted or ... Read Full Story
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How about these right… I think you’ll find the following nuggets of wisdom particularly insightful. Leave your comments below. Check out the second one in particular… Teaching Authors–Six Children’s Book Authors Who Also Teach … We are pleased to be part of Elizabeth's blog tour for her first picture book as both author and illustrator, Soap, Soap, Soap ~ Jabón, Jabón, Jabón (available in bilingual and all-English versions) published by Raven Tree Press. … However, my drawings were always illustrations of the stories filling my head, and I wrote in my drawing pads too–poems, stories, you name it. I kept a diary for years ... Read Full Story
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Writing Children’s Books by Ruth Read Pukaluka the Baby Whale by Ruth Read My whole life I have been an avid reader. When I was in my twenties I told my husband I wanted to write children’s stories. However, I just didn’t have a clue how. I had to work and raise my two children so I told him I would be writing children’s books when I retired. Well, I retired and he would sometimes ask me just when I was going to write those stories. I still did not have a clue how to write. Every time I tried I couldn’t get anything ... Read Full Story
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Ok so 3 more posts today that I’ve dug up – I’m an information JUNKIE on this stuff lately. Give em a browse and let me know what ya reckon. They’re just from a few different sites I’ve been surfing lately that are generally good for information like this… An Overview of Writing Picture Books For Kids – Videos For Writers An Overview of Writing Picture Books For Kids – Videos For Writers. Critique de Mr. Chompchomp: Smart and dumb ideas on eBooks for kids A Publishers Weekly article called Children's Publishing in the Digital Age, in which several industry experts speak up, serves ... Read Full Story
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I hope you’ve been enjoying my posts lately. I thought I might do something different today and rustle up a few bits of info from around the WWW. These are some of the news items and blog posts that have been popular over the last few weeks. Leave me your thoughts. Great new books for children, from toddlers to teens is a guide for parents to help kids up to fourth grade with experiments inspired by the imagery of classic children's books. Kelly Easton's “The Outlandish …   Read More… A rough guide to the Book Fair 14) Instituto Cervantes – Quaint Spanish children's books, ... Read Full Story
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World Cup Goal: Educate Every Kid – Yahoo! News WASHINGTON, Oct 7 ( OneWorld.net ) – World leaders are pledging their support for a new campaign to get every child on the planet into school — and they're hoping the highest profile sporting event in the world can help them achieve their goal. What's the Story? “It's an outrage that 35 million African children miss out on a basic primary education — tackling that would be an incredible achievement,” UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday at the global launch of the 1GOAL campaign, which aims to turn next year's World Cup soccer tournament ... Read Full Story
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