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47 Charming Facts About Children’s Books

Comment | June 30, 2014, 1:15 pm

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Mary Poppins’s real-life model appears in unseen PL Travers story

PL Travers wrote about the eccentric great aunt who inspired Mary Poppins in a story which she gave away as... Read more »

Comment | June 30, 2014, 12:30 pm

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Picture Books Go 3D for Visually Impaired Children

“Goodnight room, goodnight moon. Goodnight cow jumping over the moon…” A children’s classic that already is a candidate for the... Read more »

Comment | June 29, 2014, 11:52 am

Supporting the Whole Child for the Whole World: Moe Caroln-Anderson at TEDxBend

Tedx presentation by Moe Caroln-Anderson on child development. Find out why it’s important for children to be exposed to the... Read more »

Comment | June 28, 2014, 2:08 pm

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IN CELEBRATION OF SUMMER MAGIC

People often ask me why I write the strange books I write. And my answer should be, “Summer magic.” Because... Read more »

Comment | June 26, 2014, 3:18 pm

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Transmedia and Education: How Transmedia Is Changing the Way We Learn

For one language arts class project, a middle school teacher in Shelburne, Virginia, Chad Sansing, asks his sixth graders to read... Read more »

Comment | June 25, 2014, 3:19 pm

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Are We Rushing Kids Out of Picture Books?

Next week at the ABC Children’s Institute in San Antonio, I’ll be on a panel with fellow booksellers and one librarian, talking... Read more »

Comment | June 20, 2014, 8:00 pm

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List of 200+ Fun, Cool and Interesting Words

All writers love language. And we especially love fun words, don’t we? Some have funky spellings, tongue-twisting turns, a satisfying “ooh”…and... Read more »

1 comment | June 20, 2014, 5:30 pm

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Beyond the Magic Tree House: Who Is Mary Pope Osborne?

When readers get hooked on a series, they want to devour anything and everything they can in the collection. And after... Read more »

Comment | June 19, 2014, 10:00 pm

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New Survey: Only 17 Percent of Parents Believe Reading is Top Priority During the Summer

WASHINGTON, June 18, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Despite research that indicates the importance of summer reading in preventing children from losing literacy skills, only... Read more »

Comment | June 19, 2014, 4:11 pm

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Harriet fans, feast your eyes

Fans of Harriet the Spy must click here. Seriously. You will not be disappointed. Thanks to Friend-of-the-Horn-Book Rich Michelson for sharing this special... Read more »

1 comment | June 18, 2014, 8:00 pm