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  1. A 5th grader is going to Uganda, needs book recommendations. Got any ideas? http://tinyurl.com/yeht44n about 14 hours ago from web
  2. Taking on the whole order of the fairy-tale universe. Sort of. http://tinyurl.com/ybf59x3 7:27 PM Nov 21st from web
  3. People here are reading Lynda Barry. And while it's sort of for kids, it's sort of not at all for kids too, right? It makes me nervous. 6:51 PM Nov 17th from web
  4. It only just occurred to me that Mad Libs are about teaching parts of speech. Years late. Also conjugation: butt, butty, buttish, buttily. 6:17 PM Nov 9th from web
  5. Any good Christian chapter books out there? An eight-year-old wants to know. Please, opine: http://tinyurl.com/ydade98 10:40 AM Oct 31st from web
  6. To win a Winter's Tail gift thing—including book, toy, and dolphin-themed DS game (I have no idea), today's is it http://tinyurl.com/ygwv64a 6:26 AM Oct 30th from web
  7. So if you're interested in a tail-less-dolphin giveaway, just let me direct you here: http://tinyurl.com/ygwv64a 8:58 AM Oct 28th from web
  8. It's not yet Friday, but this is as close as I have get gotten to being an upstanding Twitterer: #follow Friday? @FakeAPStylebook 1:59 PM Oct 22nd from web
  9. I meant seem. Seem, not seems. 10:14 AM Oct 20th from web
  10. Reading levels seems like a tool to force both parents and children to focus on the absolute least important and good things about reading. 10:13 AM Oct 20th from web
  11. @sugarsapling Even trying to figure out how to work your way backwards through one of those books makes my brain pause. Then stop. 10:11 AM Oct 20th from web in reply to sugarsapling
  12. Every time I try to read a Choose Your Own Adventure book to someone, my head explodes (invisibly). I simply cannot fathom. 5:53 PM Oct 17th from web
  13. For a "We Recommend" (http://tinyurl.com/yjhbusu) books for a six-year-old about the North Pole? 11:07 AM Oct 13th from web
  14. Trying to do the "be part of the conversation" thing; here is a blog post that has nothing to do with that: http://tinyurl.com/yjyjnyg 8:18 PM Oct 9th from web
  15. @fabulousmsmoxie Because I am attached to the idea that if you don't intentionally teach anything, you can't get blamed for anythings at all 8:35 AM Oct 9th from web in reply to fabulousmsmoxie
  16. Maybe writing a piece on instilling a love of books in a child, but the idea of instilling love seems creepy the more I think about it, no? 9:52 AM Oct 7th from web
  17. @fabulousmsmoxie Thanks! That's such a nice thing to read in the middle of a crappy workday. 9:29 AM Oct 1st from web in reply to fabulousmsmoxie
  18. My post http://ur.lc/b0f on a Stop Homework blog comment, called "obsequious" for trying to see teacher's side. Gray areas are tough, no? 12:08 PM Sep 28th from web
  19. Something for which I have no response: But Mommy, regular life is boring, and fantasy is interesting. Why would I read realistic fiction? 1:46 PM Sep 24th from web
  20. If D'Aulaires is nice, Edith Hamilton is great, and Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales is weird, what is amazing? Where does one go next? 6:36 PM Sep 14th from web