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87Stellaluna Children's Book Critique, Lesson Plans and Activities for Educators
This is an endearing story about Stellaluna, a silver fruit bat baby who gets separated from her mother during an owl attack, and falls head first into a nest of baby birds. She did everything she could to fit into this peculiar situation. "She ate bugs without making faces. She slept in...
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80Alice In Wonderland Quotes
Alice in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carroll almost 150 years ago in 1865. The actual name of the classic book is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The story of the little girl named Alice who fell down...
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78Olivia by Ian Falconer Children's Book Review and Lesson Plan
Olivia ISBN 0689829531 is some pig! She is a fashion designer, dancer, architect, artist, and big sister, and she's quite precocious. This book review and sample lesson plan will convince you that Olivia by Ian Falconer is a must-have for your children's book collection.
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81Carousels In America - Things You Didn't Know
Upon reading this request, I thought of three things. First, I remembered having trouble climbing up onto a carousel horse and hanging on to it as it moved up and down in a simulated lope on an ancient...
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73Famous First Sentences: Alice in Wonderland
A mathematician. A little girl. Puzzles, paradoxes, conundrums: Charles L. Dodgson (1832-1898), who published children's books under the pen name of Lewis Carroll, was a scholar who stammered, never married...
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81Factors for selecting and evaluating children's books
There are many factors to take into consideration when selecting and evaluating books for children. First and foremost, it is important to take into consideration the children's physical, cognitive,...
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75Best Christmas Books for Children
Holidays provide great reasons to introduce new books to your child. For the kid who hasn't shown much interest in books or reading, the themes of Christmas may be enough to lure him to the page. It's easy to...
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68Delving into the World of Fantasy Fiction
After Buffy, I was done. I was completely and utterly done with the vampire fiction--television shows, books, movies, the whole shebang. I like Dracula, was a fan of Anne Rice’s books, and a few others,...
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85Free Online Books for Children
Whether you homeschool, live far from a library, or just have a voracious reader on your hands the Internet can be a life-saver with a multitude of websites where you can find books to read for free.
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71BOOKS, LITERATURE: “Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters” (Steptoe) and “Cinderella” (Brown)
The 1600's French traditional "The Cinderella" written by Charles Perrault had to be the most popularly re-made fairy tale cast into other varying but equally charming versions. At first glance, one...
