Tiny Titans, Mickey Mouse and More - Kids Comics This Week

Kids Comics This Week include Tiny Titans, Mickey Mouse and more. Let’s dive in. Continue reading »

Kids Comics This Week - Incredibles #2, Wall-E #0

Kids Comics This Week include Incredibles #2 and Wall-E #0, both from Boom! Studios.

And of course a lot of other things, some for kids, some for, um… bigger kids. Here we go:

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School Books Move Over for Comic Books

If a host of academic experts have their way, comic books could push traditional books out of the way in elementary and middle school libraries.

But wait, comics are dumbed down versions of books, right? Not so fast. Continue reading »

Kids Comics This Week - Shazam

Some good ones this week.

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They Say: Latino Kids Get Head Start on Falling Behind

It sounds like something you’d expect to read in a newspaper from the 50’s: Latino children are not as advanced, academically, as their White counterparts.  Of course, the research done at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and the University of Pittsburgh does not simply say that White kids are inherently smarter than Latino kids; ideas like that were disproved long ago.  Instead, the findings highlight the importance of parents in helping children succeed in school.
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You Can Choose the Cheerios Box Book

Forget the Wheaties box. The cool place to be if you’re a book author is inside a box of Cheerios.

And Simon and Schuster and General Mills want parents to help pick their next book in the Spoonfuls of Stories program. Continue reading »

Kid Books Lose Battle to DVD Spread

The books in many kid’s rooms seem to be losing the battle for shelf space with kid’s DVDS.

In a survey in England, a third of parents admitted the flicks outnumber the books for their kids. What do you want to bet the numbers aren’t that far off on this side of the pond? Continue reading »

What Makes a Kid’s Book Classic?

In light of today’s debut of the “Where the Wild Things Are” movie, the New York Times Artsbeat blog addresses the question of what defines a classic children’s book. Writer Dwight Garner cites Eden Ross Lipson, the late children’s books editor of the New York Times Book Review, who believed that it wasn’t critics’ reviews or adults’ embrace of the book, but whether children choose to read it to their own kids when they grow up.

That’s a nice idea, really. I remember very few of the picture books I read as a kid, but one bigger-kid book has become a favorite in our house Continue reading »

Kids Comics This Week - The Incredibles

Not a lot of kid stuff this week, but there is some, and also some other items of note.

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Disney Offers Subscription eBooks For Kids

Disney is now offering a new subscription service called Disney Digital Books. For $8.95/month (or $79.95/year), you and your kids will be able to access more than 500 “new and classic Disney books,” according to the company. Continue reading »