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The Phantom Tollbooth Documentary : Beyond Expectations
Description: Are you always looking for new books for your children? Do you need help finding childrens books that you want to add to your home library? Learn from my attempts to build a library of worthwhile books for my daughter and let’s help each other make our kids’ libraries rock.
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Here’s the thing—I created this blog as a resource to help parents find good books for their kids. And then… I was a very bad parent to this website. You can still find a lot of great recommendations here and some of my favorite things I’ve ever written can be found on this site, but I had to walk away from it. Why?
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How good is Lane Smith’s Grandpa Green ? I brought this up when I wrote about Mo Willems a while back, but there are a few children’s book creators who are so consistently good that their continuing excellence almost starts to seem commonplace. You find yourself expecting it – “What? Another Kate DiCamillo triumph? About time. I expect nothing less…” (Cut to entitled parent rolling their eyes and tagging their latest Tweets with #firstworldproblems.)
The Cinephile Bookworm - Blog
The Phantom Tollbooth Documentary : Beyond Expectations