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Win 5 free book downloads for young readers from Capstone

Hey, we were compensated for this post-all thoughts are our own. This is giveaway will excite parents for lots of reasons. We’ve partnered with Capstone Publishing to give away 5 free book downloads via their CapReader app on Apple devices. These are for 5 free titles including, Spelling Queen, Too Shy for Show-and-Tell, Zeke Meeks vs. the Stinkin’ Science Fair, You Can Write Cool Poems and Bus Ride Bully. The books are great for young readers and the total package has a value of over $35, plus we’re giving away 20 of them-so your odd on winning are great.

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Snow doubt, Are We There, Yeti? is a 1-pun book that small children will enjoy

Are We There, Yeti starts out with Yeti, the school bus driver being introduced. Yeti is about the take the kids on a trip and they want to know where they are going. Anyone who had driven children two or older around will have a Pavlovian response to the “Are we there yet” query. It’s closely related to the
“Are we done yet” query, but possibly more annoying because everyone involved in the conversation is trapped inside of a moving vehicle. Are We There, Yeti? takes that question, makes the driver of the vehicle a Yeti, combines it with soft, muted art to create a good-night book that kids 2-5 will really get a laugh out of.

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New All Age Comic Books for Wednesday September 16, 2015

Happy #NCBD ! New comic book day is yielding some new all age comics for everyone. This is the list that highlights the new all age comics that are released in a given week. All of these comics are OK for all ages, but some ages won’t enjoy them. Case in point are the new Princeless comics this week. Princeless Raven Pirate Princess and Princeless Be Yourself don’t have anything objectionable in them and have fabulous role models, but their realistic style might not be something that a five-year old wants to see.

It’s not that all ages comic books have to have an anime look about it with all of the characters having soft, rounded features. It’s the content that makes up something that’s OK for any age. A great example of this is a conversation with a seven-year old I had recently. I gave him a stack of our son’s all ages comics and some of our graphic novels. He looked at our graphic novels and wanted to see the action and superheroes that his friends like, but asked if there was blood. “Yes”, I told him. An all age comic book isn’t about lack of story or young elements, it’s about content and what is appropriate for kids.

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New all age comic books for Wednesday, September 9, 2015

It’s a great day to discover some all age comic books. This past weekend I went to Dragon Con and there were some awesome comic creators that I heard speak and had a chance to meet. Jeremy Whitley, the creator of Princeless and writer for My Little Pony among other titles was there talking about the importance of all age books to hook young people into reading. Any Runton from Owly and Bob Camp, the Creative Director (and cartoonist) on The Ren & Stimpy show were also on that panel. Tracey Yardley, the all ages comic artist who has drawn Sonic the Hedgehog since 2005 and whose new all ages book, Galaxy Man & Cosmic Girl comes out very soon.

Speaking with all of them was a real hoot and reminded me of the first place that many youth encounter comic books-the library. They all said that your local public library was a great place to get up to speed on characters or discover new ones that might be just what your young reader is looking for.

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Star Wars Workbooks help with the Force, 3 R’s and more

A couple years ago we started a summer project with our 2 year old called the summer book. It was a way to engage him in activity books that would help him learn letters, colors and vocabulary. It’s three years later and he still loves his summer books, but they’ve graduated to a year-round activity. Because of that we’ve seen a variety of summer books, some that were fun and some that were not. We were sent a couple of the Star Wars Workbooks for him to do and they are fun, educational and have really cool pictures for everyone to look at.

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Back to School National Geographic Kids #Giveaway #BlogPopEvents

Back to school is awesome! National Geographic Kids produce some of the most awesome books out there! Giveaways are awesome! Things are really upbeat here at the office today apparently. With back to school happening (or has already happened) we’ve got a great National Geographic Kids giveaway with five books that will entertain kids that are five and up.

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Back to school viewing on Netflix #StreamTeam

Hey, we were compensated for this post. Having said that, all thoughts are our own and these shows really rock. Back to school! What did the kids do this summer? If their television habits weren’t as educational as you would’ve liked there is a solution to that. School! And there are some fun, educational shows on Netflix that kids of various ages will like to watch. These shows are actually educational and will provide kids a chance to relax in front of the tele while still learning something.

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Space Racers is equal part education and entertainment #Giveaway #SRPopup

Is Space Racers a television show that aims to educate or entertain? As parents we know that it’s trying to do both, but we can usually detect when it’s about to happen. The effective trick about Space Racers is that the education sneaks up on you. You’re enjoying the pleasant enough episode when all of a sudden someone is off to see what’s making the moon disappear. It’s just the shadow, we know that, but the way that it’s explained will keep kids entertained.

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