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For Parents

Keeping an Easy Diary for Busy Moms & Dads via Simple Diary

Simple Diary helps makes periodic recording of your life more interesting.

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For Parents

Classic Family Dinner Recipes by Campanile's Mark Peel

Campanile’s Mark Peel shares recipes from his Monday Family Dinner nights at LA’s classic restaurant.

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Art

Where The Wild Things Are Mural Painting Time Lapse

Cool time lapse of an dad/artist who paints a “Where the Wild Things Are”

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Baby Shower Gifts

Etsy Find: Customized Bookplates by Jack and Izzy

Top off a gift basket of books with a tin of customized bookplates from Jack & Izzy’s Etsy Store. Choose from 20 different illustration designs in 20 different custom colors – all personalized with your child’s name.

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Children's Books

Book Review: Not a Stick

Love the graphics and title of this book, Not a Stick, by Antoinette Portis. Found it via the review by Brooke Reynolds at her design blog, Inchmark Journal. As former senior art director of Martha Stewart Kids, you just might love Brooke’s blog too. Check out her blog post on making home-made fortune cookie baby [...]

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Quick Picks

Movie Trailer: Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are

To me, Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book "Where the Wild Things Are" is about living large inside your imaginations, and after one look at the movie’s new trailer – I suspect that my wildest imaginations will fall short of…

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Children's Books

Retro Space Alphabet

Love the retro look of these scanned pages from Irene Zacks’ 1964 book, Space Alphabet. Any page would look great framed as art….

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Children's Books

Giveaway: The Art of Open Season

In conjunction with the DVD release of Open Season 2 , we’re going to give away one hardback edition of "The Art of Open Season". There are two ways to enter – join our mailing list or follow our new…

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Children's Books

Lookybook: First Snow by Bernette Ford

Isn’t it never really Christmas until it snows? In Bernette Ford’s First Snow, bunnies and other forest animals enjoy their first snowfall just like children do. View via Lookybook | Buy First Snow via Amazon…

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Children's Books

Parents Embrace Dr. Seuss' Eco-friendly Lorax

Not popular when first published, today’s parents are rediscovering Dr. Seuss’ "The Lorax" for its eco-friendly message as its sales have doubled over the last five years.[via LA Times] The little kids understand. My 6-year-old son, Emmett, reads Dr. Seuss’…

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Children's Books