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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 [...]
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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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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Michael Ian Black Reads From His New Kids Book Chicken Cheeks
Here is a whimsical book by comedian Michael Ian Black.
Some bears will go to any length to get some honey. This one recruits every animal that comes along to form, well, a stack. The result? Tail of the duck to the gluteus maximus of the duck-billed platypus (with many other rears in between). Readers will [...]
Scaredy Squirrel at Night
The fear of the dark is a primeval concept that all kids can relate to all over the world. Scaredy Squirrel’s new book, Scaredy Squirrel at Night, tackles this issue which kids can relate to. This fourth in a lavish series of books with rich friendly all ages stories of Scaredy Squirrel is once again [...]
Charles Schulz Documentary
It’s been already 9 years since Charles Schulz passed away on February 9th, 2000. Peanuts is still going stronger each year. Not bad for a cadaver cartoonist. Here is a clip from a 1963 documentary on Charles Schulz, with some good advice about where he gets ideas. This is a side of Charles we don’t [...]
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Tales From Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan
Suburbia has never looked better. Tales From Outer Suburbia is Australian illustrator Shaun Tan’s newest book. Having garnered world attention with his first book, The Arrival, his feet are firmly attached with a stronger book with richly inspired illustrations. The juxtaposition of images is a buffet of perpetual food for thought. Shaun takes resemblance and [...]
Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman is the Oscar Wilde of today. Neil can weave modern day fairy tales with ease. His latest offering is Blueberry Girl. There is no subject Neil cannot turn into gold, his sentences spin like a wheel that continuously spits images of wonderment. His words are like a pebble that skips through the water [...]
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