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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Fumbling Through Fantasy: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900)

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Unlike the other fantasy titles I'm reading this year, which were chosen in order to broaden my reading horizons, The Wonderful Wiza...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Tips for Watching Videos with Toddlers (with a List of Our Favorites!)

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In September 2015, the American Academy of Pediatrics made some changes to its guidelines about screen time for young children. One of the...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Reading with Little Miss Muffet and Little Bo Peep, January 2016

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We have been snowed in for the last few days, and before that we had a good cold spell, so we have had lots of time to cuddle up wit...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Reading Through History: Downright Dencey by Caroline Dale Snedeker (1927)

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One day, while walking home from school, young Quaker girl Dionis "Dencey" Coffyn joins in with some of her schoolmates in throw...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Fumbling Through Fantasy: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (2008)

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On the night his entire family is murdered by a man identified only as Jack, a toddler wanders out of his house and into the nearby grav...
Sunday, January 17, 2016

Reading Through History: Veronica Ganz by Marilyn Sachs (1968)

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Veronica Ganz is a horrible bully, and most of the kids in her school and neighborhood know better than to cross her. Only Peter Wedemeyer...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Book Review: 26 Fairmount Avenue by Tomie dePaola (1999)

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26 Fairmount Avenue was published in 1999, and it was awarded a Newbery Honor in 2000. Written by beloved children’s illustrator Tomie De...