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		<title>Book Review: How Whales Walked into the Sea</title>
		<link>http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/11/whaleswalking.html</link>
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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>
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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>
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		<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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		<title>Work-in-progress: The Ultimate Children&#8217;s Book Nameplate</title>
		<link>http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/06/nameplate.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have three beliefs about children&#8217;s books to share. They are not open to rational argument or counter examples or people pointing out exceptions to the rule. They are my deeply held feelings.
For months now I&#8217;ve been contemplating a new type of book nameplate – the area on the front page of some books where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Ways to Ruin Children&#8217;s Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New alternate title: Watch a blogger piss off his entire readership with one article.
The quickest way to sully a children&#8217;s book is to write your child&#8217;s name in it. Your family only temporarily owns books. In a few years you&#8217;ve sold, gifted or donated them to other people or organizations.
New children now have your wonderful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: A Day&#8217;s Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago I wouldn&#8217;t have given any thought to A Day&#8217;s Work by Eve Bunting, a children&#8217;s picture book. A cursory glance at the cover art and flipping the pages indicates a story about the immigrant experience of day laborers in the southwest US. Oh, but it&#8217;s so much more.
Now, here&#8217;s a back history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shotgun Book Reviews: Bragging from a Helpless Hoarding Dad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 07:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend was a good weekend for acquiring books. I scored 137 children&#8217;s books in good to new condition for about $40.
Where??? Three garage sales and one library sale where I got first dibs because I volunteered to help set up the sale. Two other dads were clued into this insider&#8217;s bounty and brought their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Our Family Tree</title>
		<link>http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/05/evolution.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2009/05/evolution.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 08:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young children are naturally interested in the world – how things work, where things come from, and so forth. I can&#8217;t imagine such discussions not raising the need to explain evolution in some fashion. Our daughter understood a basic sense of evolution in her fourth year.
Oh, but first, a disclaimer&#8230;. If you feel evolution contradicts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book vs. Movie: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett, is a fun little book for older toddlers. It&#8217;s about the town of Chewandswallow, a land where three meals a day fall from the sky. To be prepared for any kind of weather, you always bring your plate, cup and [...]]]></description>
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