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I’m beginning to notice a theme in children’s lit: kids and critters go hand-in-hand. So we rounded up some of the newest examples of animal antics on bookshelves and let you know whether they’re worth the hardcover investment: Continue reading »
I should have been born in Britain. Because even a fairly derivative Wallace and Gromit flick is going to leave me giggling on the couch.
Enter Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death. The new short film is the first from favorite clay-mated dog and dimwit combination since their feature-length Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
It’s no wonder it’s had die hard fans salivating. Enter the good news . . . and the bad news. Continue reading »
He’s a favorite of Michelle Obama, and this week, SkippyJon Jones is being launched into, er, “spice.”
The lastest in a line of books featuring a Siamese cat who thinks he’s a Chihuahua, SkippyJon Jones Lost in Spice is littered with Spanish words for your kids to practice and a story that’s been peppered with a liberal dose of silly.
Author Judy Schachner sat down with Babble via the phone from her home in southeastern Pennsylvania to explain why cats need three names and why her cat speaks with a Spanish accent: Continue reading »
The list of job losses keeps on growing, but for many there’s hope that they’ll come back. Except this one: the art of arcing a paper across a lawn from the seat of a bicycle is facing extinction.
The paper route as means for kids to pull together some cash is on the way out, Continue reading »
Who cares that they’ve been dead for eons – kids love dinosaurs. Didn’t you?
Since we all hope our kids love books just a teensy bit more, Babble’s got a list of new kids books that we think are “dino”mite to keep all that love alive.
I admit we’ve been a bit dino-crazy in my house of late – what with 7 Days of Dinosaurs on Droolicious and Dinosaur Train about to hit PBS. And so in true Martha Stewart mom mode (Lawd help me), I pulled together a pile of dinosaur books to keep the theme going. Here are her favorites: Continue reading »
There was a message on my machine last week about my daughter’s bookshelf. “Does she have the Ramona books yet?”
My daughter is four. And yes, she does, a few of them anyway. Because I had only just delivered a girl when I started collecting the “girl” books that were such a part of my childhood.
So it was fitting that in the same week of the Ramona book query arrived Lizzie Skurnick’s collection of essays. Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading brings together her columns from Jezebel in a book that’s as much memoir of a seventies childhood as it is a reader’s guide to teen lit. Continue reading »
I’m one of those parents who “does the voices” when reading books to my daughter. But there’s one book I always stumbled over.
Tell me, can you say Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo really fast? Thank goodness Marcia Gay Harden can. Continue reading »
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