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		<title>Awesomely insane scientific reviews of children&#8217;s space books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take an author with a degree in physics, throw in some NASA experience and an interest in children&#8217;s books and what do you get?  You get children&#8217;s books reviews about space exploration containing madly detailed lists of technical flaws.
Marianne Dyson was &#8220;one of the first ten women flight controllers, working as a Flight Activities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Axe Cop: comic written by a 5-year-old</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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That was episode 1 of Axe Cop, a web comic drawn by a 29-year-old man who has a 5-year-old brother. After playing in a pretend world with Axe Cop and Flute Cop with his younger brother (using a toy axe and a recorder), the illustrator was compelled to draw up the pretend world they created.
Axe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new look on classic children&#8217;s books</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As told by a fictionalized Werner Herzog (a famous German film director):
Madeline:
Madeline is a little girl at a girls-only French boarding school run by nuns. She develops appendicitis and gets rushed to the hospital, leading to this gem:
The girls eagerly enter Madeline&#8217;s room,
Curious for what medical horrors they might see,
But there are no horrors, only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: My First Little House Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My First Little House is a series of picture books telling simplified tales from Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder. Fourteen stories were published in the 1990s by HarperCollins &#8212; no author listed, simply stating they&#8217;re based upon Wilder&#8217;s work.
If you cherish the thought of one day reading the full chapter book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Awesome custom children&#8217;s book: Following Featherbottom</title>
		<link>http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/12/featherbottom.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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Following Featherbottom written by Phil Haussler, illustrated by Brad Sneed and web-ified by Ken Wiebke is a tribute to the child for whom it&#8217;s customized, a gift given unique to the child. There are plenty of customized books on the market, but this is the first one to catch my eye. It&#8217;s different for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Scholastic Treasury of 100 Storybook Classics</title>
		<link>http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/11/scholastic.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m as anti-video as parents come when it comes to children&#8217;s videos, but I&#8217;ve really grown to appreciate Scholastic&#8217;s books-on-DVD. I jumped at the chance when offered to review Scholastic&#8217;s Treasury of 100 Storybook Classics.
Last year, when my daughter turned 4-years-old we caved to preschool peer pressure and began holding a &#8216;movie night&#8217; on Saturdays. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: How Whales Walked into the Sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The whole world is a family.&#8221; &#8211;My 5-year-old daughter on the beautiful message she gets from evolution, all of us derived from a common ancestor.

I previously reviewed Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story, and while it was a good introduction to concepts behind evolution, it&#8217;s a bit esoteric for young children.  I was lucky to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refunds: Baby Einstein DVDs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ta-dah! The whole educational video claim has come to roost. Baby Einstein, aka Walt Disney Company, is offering refunds on Baby Einstein DVDs purchased between June 5, 2004 and September 4, 2009. They&#8217;re not defective. They&#8217;re just not educational, and according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, you have no business showing them to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Children&#8217;s Books for Parents</title>
		<link>http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/09/thoughtfulbooks.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes there are books you read your kids because you love them, not because they love them. Or at least, their message is too deep to easily convey to a young mind. Here are a few I&#8217;ve run across in my book hoarding.

Beryl&#8217;s Box by Lisa Taylor &#8212; Friendly Beryl and spoiled brat Penelope are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Children&#8217;s Books about Space and Aliens</title>
		<link>http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/08/aliens.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/08/aliens.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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1. You Will Go to the Moon by Mae and Ira Freeman was published in 1959, ten years before the first moon landing. It is a shear joy to consume as it forecasts the wonderful, technological world of tomorrow.
In future times, families will:

 Blast off in a rocket,
 Dock with a space station (shaped much [...]]]></description>
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