Category: Parent/Teacher Collection
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What’s in a Name?
The New Baby Name Survey Lansky 2007 Picture it: there I was, moving out the oldest baby name books from the non-fiction 900s, fairly impressed that they are mostly from the last five years and circulating at a reasonable rate. Suddenly, I came upon this one, much older than the…
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Evil Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs The Bible, Barney, and Beyond Phillips 1994 Phillips is an author of another book on this site, Saturday Morning Mind Control, in which the author asserts that Saturday morning cartoons are the gateway to evil. This book is more of the same. Dinosaurs, in particular Barney and Jurassic Park,…
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Finger Frolics
Finger Frolics: Fingerplays for Young Children Cromwell 1983 Submitter: [This] title caught my eye on a list of books that have not circulated in 10+ years. Funny title aside, if there is one thing I know about children’s books, it’s that young’uns don’t take kindly to incorrect depictions of dinosaurs.…
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Alphabetical Baby Care
The Modern Encyclopedia of Baby and Child Care From Prenatal Care to Adolescence Vol. 6 Le-Nu 1966 Another find from my Swedish Death Cleaning project I was in first grade or kindergarten when this was published, so I am pretty sure this wasn’t a book I picked up. I am…
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Old School Finger Plays
Let’s Do Finger Plays Grayson 1962 A colleague was cleaning out the youth storytime collection when she ran across this little blast from the past. Of course we both knew immediately that we were looking at an antique given the “attractive” library binding. I recognized quite a few rhymes that…
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Watermelons Not War
Watermelons Not War! Cloud, Deegan, Evans, Imam, and Signer 1984 Evidently the authors felt that it was important for parents to talk to children about possible nuclear annihilation. For context, nuclear accidents and war were constantly in the news at the time. Many respected doctors and educators were talking about…
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