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Cindy: It’s August. Stores have had back to school supply advertisements running for months now. You know what that means. Yup. Time to at least start thinking about it, and in some areas of the country, students will be fighting lockers and cracking open the new Crayola boxes before this post is published. Mom, It’s [...]

Lynn: Cindy and I may differ on our favorite genres but we are in complete agreement about funny books.  It is REALLY hard to write funny books and we LOVE them.  Kristen Tracy writes really funny books and today we are going to talk about two of them.  I get to start with The Reinvention [...]

Lynn: Meet the kindergarten class at Wolong Nature Reserve – sixteen adorable baby pandas. Small humans will be enchanted by the irresistible photographs of these furry students as they pursue their lessons of playing, eating, napping and exploring their world. Panda Kindergarten (HarperCollins, 2009) is ideal for story hours or quiet time after a busy [...]

Cindy: There’s nothing scarier than navigating your first school bus ride, unless it is working as a middle school bus driver! Talk about an underappreciated profession! I’m Your Bus (Scholastic, 2009) is a book to soothe young children and to give to your favorite bus drivers as a thank you gift. The digitally designed, large, [...]

Cindy: My sentiments exactly! I Don’t Want to Go to School! (Random House, 2009) I love my job, but the week before school starts, when the weather always turns its most glorious, it’s hard to say goodbye to summer vacation. Simon the Super Rabbit says “No Way” to his parents’ variety of attempts to get [...]