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Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater
Manga has exploded like mushrooms throughout the years. There are many book stores that now have sections dedicated to the current version of manga. Mostly North American young girls flock to manga. At one time manga was not about giant robots and fantasy elements, the stories were about real people on the street. In Japan [...]
50 Free Resources to Improve Your Writing Skills
The English language is going through constant change each day. With new words and text lingo, the language is being taxed heavily. There are simple rules to know how to write in English. Flexible but yet there is structure to be followed. Smashing Magazine is an online guide for visual graphics. Their comprehensive collection of [...]
Lunch Lady
There is one in every school, the token mother of kids in the cafeteria. Lunch Lady, that incognito motherly like woman who slaves from the morning with her crew to feed hundreds of kids in schools. Her job is to keep healthy minds nourished with the latest mashed potatoes that look like something from a [...]
Detention Slip for the Summer
There is one kid this summer who is getting a detention slip for the whole summer. Shaker Heights High School in Ohio, a little posh school got their yearbooks in this year with a surprise. The F-bomb cleverly concealed on the cover. This time of the year when school is winding down many disgruntled students [...]
Michael Phelps: How to Train with a T. Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals
Michael Phelps: How to Train with a T. Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals. Sink or swim, Michael will swim in any body of water. But a body of literature. Sink I think. Michael Phelps has helped many kids with his foundation. Here is a book written by Michael Phelps with the help of a [...]
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Charlie Chocks Vitamins
Chock treatment! Charlie Chocks is perhaps one of the lamest spokesperson cartoon character for a vitamin brand devised by Miles Laboratories, the creators of Alka Seltzer. They created the first chewable vitamin for children in 1960 and made parents very upset with commercials on Saturday morning cartoons. Miles introduced Flintstone Chewable Vitamins in 1968, [...]
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Pearls Sells Out, a Pearls Before Swine film by Stephan Pastis
Stephan Pastis is a walking billboard for his own work and put up a gut-buster to exploit himself and his newest book, Pearls Sells Out, a Pearls Before Swine. Stephan Pastis visits his rival newspaper syndicate, Universal Press Syndicate, and tries to get an endorsement for his book. This is the way of the future, [...]
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Guy Laliberté: The Fabulous Story of the Creator of Cirque du Soleil
Guy Laliberté: The Fabulous Story of the Creator of Cirque du Soleil by Andrew Morton will surprise a few readers about the international business man known for being the mastermind behind Cirque de Soleil . Guy is a man of mystery and a victim of his own success. He is the biggest export from eastern [...]
The Passion of the Hausfrau
The Passion of the Hausfrau are the chronicles of upbringing of children by Nicole Chaison the “house-wife”. This self illustrated book examines the perils of parenthood in epic grandeur. This descriptive graphic memoir is one experienced by all parents around the globe daily. The sleep deprived author shares with us her daily grind of motherhood. [...]
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Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!