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Win a family 4-pack of tickets to Disney Junior at the Movies: Halloveen Party!

That special time when your kids are passionate about Disney Junior is fleeting. You parents with young kids might roll your eyes at that sentence, but once your kids get older and they watch things that aren’t as wholesome-or at such a high caliber, will understand in a couple years. For those parents with children 6 and under, Disney Junior at the Movies: Halloveen Party! is for you, and your kids. Coming to your local movie theater for only three showings from Fathom Events on October 21 at 10 AM, 26 at 4PM and 28 at 12:55PM this is the kind of big screen fun that kids through first grade will scream for.

This special Disney Junior event will include four episodes including Mickey and the Roadster Racers and a never-before-seen episode of Vampirina. The giveaway is valid for tickets to a Fathom Events movie theater near you for the October 26 or 28 show.

Win a family 4-pack of tickets to Disney Junior at the Movies: Halloveen Party!

Disney Junior at the Movies: Halloveen Party! invites kids and parents to dress up in their favorite costume as Disney Junior hits the big screen. Costumes are welcome, just leave the fake weapons and face masks at home.

Monster Trucks is a monster driven great good-night book

“It’s a rhyming book”, one of the clever children in class commented as I was reading Monster Trucks to them. The book does rhyme and it’s a monster book that’s being released near Halloween, but the book can’t be defined one that’s exclusive to either camp. Instead, Monster Trucks is a book that contains many aspects of other books that children love and puts them into one happy package that ages 8 and younger will enjoy.

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Hair-Pocalypse, a simple tale that grows on you

Patience and independence. We tell our 7 year old multiple times a day that he needs to be more patient. Sometimes on his math quizzes at school he’ll simply not do problems that I know he can do. It’s because he’s in too big of a hurry. Patience, everything requires practice and some things require more practice, all the while allowing for individuality. Hair-Pocalypse is a pre-K through early elementary school book that’s about a grubby young boy whose hair has a life of its own.

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Max and Bird-from colors to story is a great good-night book

Max the cat is back. More precisely, Ed Vere, the author and illustrator of Max is back with a new story about the black, round kitten with large eyes and a blue nose. Max and Bird is pre-K book comfort food that also makes up a great good-night book. The book is stacked with colors, has the characters in all manner of action and features many small words that will become a young reader’s first sight words. Max and Bird is also very cute and has a story that kids will understand.

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Gobi, the true story of a desert dog

Emerging independent reader. That is a new title that we’ve learned this year now that our second grader has started school. For us it’s when he was in second grade and certain books, like this one, hit his sweet spot of reading. Gobi, A Little Dog With a Big Heart is just a bit more difficult that that level, but its content is spot-on with what he wants to read about.

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When’s My Birthday is one that kids will want read to them

How many sleeps till my birthday? We start to get those questions about three months before the youngest one’s actual day. It’s a cute and precious thing when a child establishes a timeline based on sleeps. When’s My Birthday? is a children’s book that is intended to be read to them-and read to them with you inner theater major leading the charge. The more enthusiasm the better. It’s written for kids. That may sound obvious given that it’s a children’s book. However from its mixed medium art to the fact that there are no capitol letters, it’s apparent that the book is entirely meant to be read to children. This is the kind of book that young children will want read to them over and over, but especially near their birthday.

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Truckeroo School is rhyming, vehicle oddities via the looking glass

Truckeroo School is a book by David Kirk. Kirk is an author and illustrator who is well known from his work with Miss Spider, which kids in the know call Sunny Patch. That show ran for four years, from 2004-2008 and can still be seen today on any number of platforms. I mention all of this because new parents might not know that property or his David Kirk or his style of painting and writing. Based on Truckeroo School his style is Telletubbies, but mixed in with their Gremlin cousins who were fed after midnight. Accompany that with rhyming text that fans of Pout Pout Fish will appreciate and you’ve got a unique book that seems like it was left on this side of the looking glass by some wayward, yet very friendly monster.

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Today I Feel…is effective and simple children’s feelings with art.

I’ve always envied cartoonists that did one panel strips. They have one square or circle to make readers grin, laugh or think about something. Sometimes you get it, sometimes you don’t, but the sheer creativity and pressure those artists are under to do it is impressive. Today I Feel…. An Alphabet of Feelings by Madalena Moniz manages to do the same thing, but does it through the A, B, C’s of emotions that elementary school children will encounter.

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