5 Ways to Celebrate Dr. Seuss’ Birthday
March 2nd is Dr Seuss’ birthday! From parfaits to planes, we have 5 ways to encourage some creative celebrating with your kids. Share your ideas too!
Continue ReadingMarch 2nd is Dr Seuss’ birthday! From parfaits to planes, we have 5 ways to encourage some creative celebrating with your kids. Share your ideas too!
Continue ReadingBefore you start celebrating Dr Seuss’ birthday on March 2nd, here are seven things you may not know about the man beyond his infamous kids books.
Continue ReadingMost of my Stack Overflow columns focus on recent books (well, within the past couple of years) but there are plenty of older stories that are fantastic. Today’s stack are old stories that have been reprinted (or gotten new editions), so they’re a little easier to find than the originals.
Continue ReadingDr. Seuss fans rejoice! ‘Green Eggs and Ham – Read & Learn,’ a digital book app, comes to iOS today. The ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ app is an interactive digital book for children three to six geared toward learning reading, spelling, phonics, and more.
Continue ReadingGeekMom Maryann shows you how to encourage a love of reading while cosplaying as your favorite book character.
Continue ReadingDr. Seuss, PBS Kids, and even the Smithsonian have new apps out filled with dinosaurs, lizards, and snakes, so I’ve been taking a look at several of them.
Continue ReadingIf I Ran the Rainforest sees the Cat taking Sally and her brother Dick on a journey to a rainforest to learn all about them.
Continue ReadingGeekMom Sarah continues to discover Dr.Seuss with her children, through The Butter Battle Book brought digital life by Oceanhouse Media.
Continue ReadingToday is the 109th anniversary of Theodor Seuss Geisel’s birth. The good “Dr.” may be gone, but we pay tribute to his legacy.
Continue ReadingWhen we bought our first home a few months ago, it was the perfect opportunity to upgrade our toddler from her nursery room to a big girl room. We browsed around the internet to decide on a theme for her …
Continue ReadingI grew up in a French-speaking town so Dr. Seuss was just not part of my childhood like it is for many kids in the US. When I moved to California, I took a job as a mother’s helper while I attended college. One evening, their 5-year-old son asked if I could read to him […]
Continue ReadingOn March 2, PBS KIDS will celebrate the 108th birthday of Dr. Seuss with THE CAT-IN-THE-HAT-A-THON, a two-hour marathon of THE CAT IN THE HAT KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THAT! which includes some brand new episodes kids will love (check local listings for times) featuring Nick, Sally, and of course, Cat. THE CAT IN THE HAT-A-THON […]
Continue ReadingWhen I originally saw the trailer for The Lorax, I flashed to the live-action Grinch Who Stole Christmas and The Cat in the Hat movies and how I didn’t enjoy them. I worried that a movie made from one of my …
Continue ReadingSo, you want your children to start learning early about the ultimate evil in the universe that is Cthulhu, but where to begin? H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu is great and all, but not really suited for a younger …
Continue ReadingCharles Cohen, who describes himself as a “dentist by profession and Seussologist by obsession” discovered an early magazine story written and illustrated by Theodor Seuss Geisel. Cohen made it his mission to find other lost Seuss stories published in magazines between 1948 and 1959. When he got multiple copies he offered them for sale on eBay, […]
Continue ReadingI love to look at those lists that they give to professors that explain the state of the matriculating freshman class. You know what I’m talking about? The ones that say things like, “They have never lived in a world …
Continue ReadingI keep finding myself in conversations with people who are down on technology, especially as it tramples over the sacred ground of books. It was the mood at Book Expo this year, and it seems to be the mood among the parents and educators I’ve been talking to recently. What they’re missing is that we’re […]
Continue ReadingNow I want to see Matt Smith read McElligot’s Pool. By Bill Mudron, found via io9.
Continue ReadingMost people know him as Dr. Seuss, but Theodor Seuss Geisel was much more than a children’s author. As a boy, much of his life was defined, for better and for worse, by his being a German-American. Later, he wrote …
Continue ReadingIt was March 2nd, 1904 that Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Today we pay tribute to Dr. Seuss’ 106th birthday. While most commonly known for his children’s books (he wrote over 60 of them), “Dr.” Seuss was …
Continue ReadingThe two-to-five contingent are a wild and wily folk, changing whims and wants at a moment’s notice. And while the summer months are certainly time for play outside, having good books to lean on during thunderstorms, at bedtime and any …
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