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You Know, for Kids: New Books: A Home for Bird
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You Know, for Kids. Great children's books, music, movies, and other stuff. August 15, 2012. New Books: A Home for Bird. Philip C. Stead. Established himself as an author with a talent for channeling the charm of classic children's books last year with his and his wife, Erin's, breakout hit. A Sick Day for Amos McGee. A Home for Bird. In both his narrative and his exquisite crayon-and-gouache illustrations. A Home for Bird. So Vernon ties their boat to a helium balloon to explore further; wondering aloud...
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You Know, for Kids: Old School: A Wizard of Earthsea
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You Know, for Kids. Great children's books, music, movies, and other stuff. September 19, 2012. Old School: A Wizard of Earthsea. As I grew older and out of children's chapter books, all those years ago, I kept only a handful of favorites on my bookshelf. I'm not sure I knew why, exactly, even back then—because I thought even as a high school student I might want to refer back to them? Or (deep down) because I wanted to hang on to them for my own kids someday? A Wrinkle in Time. The Book of the Dun Cow.
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You Know, for Kids: New(ish) Books: Wolf Story
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You Know, for Kids. Great children's books, music, movies, and other stuff. October 10, 2012. New(ish) Books: Wolf Story. You'd think that at some point the New York Review Children's Collection. Would just run out of obscure, unknown and out-of-print kid lit that's astonishingly brilliant to reissue. But they don't. It's really a testament to both their editorial and archival skills, as well as to the vast amount of great forgotten work out there to be found and reissued for our benefit. And the man con...
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You Know, for Kids: New Music: Ozomatli Presents OzoKidz
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You Know, for Kids. Great children's books, music, movies, and other stuff. September 21, 2012. New Music: Ozomatli Presents OzoKidz. I'll admit to having been spoiled a bit by They Might Be Giants. It was hard not to be, when a band of which I had already been a longtime fan chose the period when we had our first child to make a marvelous crossover into kids' music—and proceeded to put out. Others with no professional background in music for nonkid audiences at all ( Recess Monkey. Had moved into the ge...
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You Know, for Kids: New Music: Grammaropolis
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You Know, for Kids. Great children's books, music, movies, and other stuff. October 3, 2012. Since I'm on a grammar kick of late. I should mention a second source of no-really-it's-fun learning on the subject that Dash has been obsessed with lately:. An album of songs about language and parts of speech. The CD came out earlier this year, but recently came to my attention on its reissue with a new iPad/iPhone app, which nicely complements the subscription-based learning Grammaropolis website. That is deli...
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You Know, for Kids: Security Blanket: Audiobooks for Your Kids
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You Know, for Kids. Great children's books, music, movies, and other stuff. June 10, 2011. Security Blanket: Audiobooks for Your Kids. The categories of kids' entertainment (as of all entertainment, I guess) are blurring these days. I've covered audiobooks. And thus free or extremely inexpensive) online books, and I've covered iPhone/iPad apps. Now there's a product that combines all three: Audiobooks for Your Kids,. To The Secret Garden. To The Jungle Book. Image from the 1895 edition of. New Books: A T...
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You Know, for Kids: New Books: Get Dressed
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You Know, for Kids. Great children's books, music, movies, and other stuff. August 22, 2012. New Books: Get Dressed. Is renowned for his long career of, well, illustrious commercial design work. Chwast's style, once you've seen it, is instantly recognizable, both for its cultured-cartoon look and for its ever-present twinkle of humor (often dark humor, since he never shrank from topical subject matter). Young kids will adore. Cover image courtesy of Abrams Appleseed]. Posted by Myles McDonnell. Kid Pop&#...
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You Know, for Kids: New Books: No Bears
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You Know, for Kids. Great children's books, music, movies, and other stuff. July 25, 2012. New Books: No Bears. I've said it before, but I keep finding new evidence: There's something special about Australian-born picture-book authors and illustrators. (For anyone who hasn't read my prior encomiums on this subject, the short version: Check out the work of Martine Murray. The most recent example is a new favorite of our three-year-old's,. Happened. But other than that, nope, no bears here at all. 160;maga...
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You Know, for Kids: On Hiatus...
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You Know, for Kids. Great children's books, music, movies, and other stuff. January 20, 2013. The lack of postings since November had probably made this a bit obvious, but I figured I might as well make it official: A job change that's much more demanding on my time and also includes some slight overlap in subject matter has forced me to put this blog on hiatus. I am indebted to you all. All best, and hopefully more to come in the near-ish future. Posted by Myles McDonnell. DASH (8) IS INTO:. 160;magazin...
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You Know, for Kids: New Music: Science Fair
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You Know, for Kids. Great children's books, music, movies, and other stuff. July 2, 2012. New Music: Science Fair. I guess the first big wave of all-star music compilation albums for charity came in the 1980s, coming off the high-profile all-star singles of Band Aid. And USA for Africa. Though really George Harrison's Bangladesh concert. The very best compilation I've come across is 2010's. Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti,. Has its second release. 8212;and accordingly, it features songs about science ...
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