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Fun with fictional families

By City Parent Staff
June 9, 2008
1.99k

The dynamics of family life present many opportunities for drama and turbulence. There can also be some hilarious moments as the following stories show.
Gail Banning has put her fictional family Out on a Limb (Key Po

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Books are vehicles on life’s highway

By City Parent Staff
May 15, 2008
2.18k

Stories often take readers on journeys. Whether physical or emotional, journeys can open our eyes to new possibilities. The protagonist in Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert’s Mattland (Annick Press,

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Barenaked Ladies for kids

By City Parent Staff
May 2, 2008
2.42k

Barenaked Ladies: Snacktime (Desperation Records) — Really, why wouldn’t these guys do a kids’ record? First of all, they’re all family men with 11 kids between the five of them. But mainly, they’re a si

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Join the club

By City Parent Staff
March 6, 2008
2.35k

If you head online and search for "kids' club," you'll end up with all kinds of hits for book clubs, environmental clubs, innovation clubs, digital photography clubs, and other clubs that sound fabulous, but suffer from one tiny

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Time to move on to chapter books

By City Parent Staff
January 18, 2008
2.29k

By January many new readers have consolidated their skills enough to want the challenge of reading a whole book. Many publishers have obliged with short, action- packed stories liberally sprinkled with illustrations to help comprehension.

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Page advice: Books for children of all ages

By City Parent Staff
December 10, 2007
3.42k

Children love to read and be read to. Books make the perfect holiday gift. Here are my picks:

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Gripping suspense grabs onto kids

By City Parent Staff
October 30, 2007
2.33k

Adventure stories for boys come in many guises, but all have one thing in common: at one point in the story, if not more, the action becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful.  Just what boys love

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This ‘stew’ has wrong recipe

By City Parent Staff
June 25, 2007
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Stephen Beck's completely literal interpretation of the Bible outlined in his book A Father's Stew is, to a columnist who believes that women should be allowed to work out of the home if they like, completely out of whack

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