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I personally believe books always make great gifts. We have installed into our children how important reading is, and you can tell. Both my one year old and my four year old can often be seen flipping through books without Bill or me even around.  This is why I l love companies like GiftLit who make it easier to give books as gifts to both children and adults alike.

Does your son like to read? Congratulations, Dad, you're doing your job. A new study out of Australia says boys in two-parents households are more likely to read if their father does. If Mom reads, girls do too. In single-parent households (where Mom is usually the present parent - at least in this study), kids of both genders were equally influenced by Mom's reading habits.

Last month, when I was volunteering at the book fair at my son’s elementary school, I was privy to some exciting news. A cool looking 4th grader informed me that the next book in the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series, by Jeff Kinney, was scheduled to come out in January.

In honor of the approaching holiday, here are ten things I’m thankful for: 1.  My family, of course.  These are people who are related to me by blood, law, and love - and, in some cases, a combination of these things - and each one of them brings me to a fuller expression of my own being.

This may be a little backwards writing a review of the 3rd documentary in a trilogy that follows Jesse James, but this may be the best of all three. I will have to go back and watch the first two to be sure. Motorcycle Mania 3 Jesse James Rides Again is meaty in that Jesse lets you into what’s happening during a tumultuous year in his life filled with personal ups and downs.

What it is:   I could have sworn that I had written a post about Kid Thing in the past, but after running several searches on my posts, I came up empty.  Kid Thing is a secure digital media player for kids in grades k-4.  Kid Thing accesses the Internet but is not a web browser.  It is more like

We recieved this book as a gift last year, and the kids really like it. The illustrator, CF Payne is a Miami Grad, and a Cincinnati resident: CF Payne website. He teaches at the Ringling College of Art and Design, Illustration Academy. His Wikepedia page. List of his books at Amazon.

I have to admit, when I saw this book slide out of the envelope, it took my breath away. Because as much as I try to stay totally unbiased when I review things, I saw that duck and wanted to give it a big hug. Doesn’t the duck look like it needs the hug? Not in a sad, pathetic way…more of a ohmygoshitssocuuuute way.

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Which illustrated children's books portray Asian eyes in an accurate way? A friend lauds Gene Yang’s AMERICAN BORN CHINESE as an example, saying that “the eyes of the Asian characters, even though drawn with so few lines, show a realistic variation from rather round-eyed to slightly-slanted.”  Other