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September is Children's Book Month--Are Kids Reading More?

Many young children are getting a head start on acquiring the skills needed to read, as family members take time out of their day on a regular basis to read aloud with them, the U.S. Census Bureau has reported (August 11, 2011). In 2009, half of children age 1 to 5 were read to seven or more times a week by a family… Continue

Added by Nancy Stewart on September 2, 2011 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Hard Work is Another Phrase for Writing Children's Books!

Yep, I’ll admit it. Hard work. That’s what it is. You have to think as a child, put yourself in a child’s place and always be aware of the child within yourself. That’s the tricky bit.

And then, of course, once you’ve decided on a wonderful, fun and thought provoking plot, one thousands of kids will want to buy and keep forever, it’s time to put together that puzzle called a children’s book. It needs to be fewer than one thousand words and less really with the…

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Added by Nancy Stewart on August 29, 2011 at 11:28am — No Comments