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64Little Author Stories
The following short pome is the first in a series of what I have coined "Little Authors". The series will occationally post pomes and short stories of elementry grade level students beginning to explore their...
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81Top Ten Christmas Picture Books for Kids
With the kids out of school for a long winter break, it’s a great time to snuggle up with a good picture book. Reading with and to your kids fosters a lifelong love of books. Here’s a Top Ten List of...
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79Best Hanukkah 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 Hanukkah may be enough to lure him to the page. It's easy to...
66Teaching Vocabulary
First impressions are incredibly important in the society we live in. And what makes up those "first impressions?" Simple- the way you dress, your manners... and your vocabulary. Prospective employers don't...
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82Parents Guide to AR Books and Tests: What is Accelerated Reader?
Many parents are initially confused when their kids come home talking about the AR books they checked out of the school library or AR tests they took at school on a given day. Here are the basics of...
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81Childrens Books About Pigs
Reading time is one of the best uses of time you can choose to spend with your children. A review of 10 humorous stories to read with your children involving the help of some darling "Pigs" as their main characters.
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73What is a picture book?
It has been said throughout time that "a picture could be worth a thousand words." This adage suggests the expressive power of images which constitutes line, shape, colour, value and space. Images in picture...
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72Development of Picture Books
Illustrations from children's books have always been a source for gathering information about the values and social and economic conditions of a particular period - a window to the change and diversity of...
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71Kitchen Sink Monster: A Children's Story By Blake Flannery
Warning, this children's story may not be suitable for all children of all ages. I am no children's story author. Read this children's story to your kids at your own risk. The story does what most...
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87Classic Children's Books by Margaret Wise Brown to Give or Keep
When I was a child in the late 1950s my mother used to read to us all the time. She read all kinds of things to us: Edgar Allan Poe's poetry, Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland, Walt...
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