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Tickle monster – bestseller becoming a classic

Tickle Monster

Josie Bissett

EAN:978-1932319675
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Compendium Publishing & Communications
Published in:
Published: September 2008

Share the treasured gift of laughter with your child and you ll create memories that will last a lifetime. This book is well on its way to becoming a celebrated children s classic. It makes a wonderful gift for parents, grandparents and children for almost any occasion baby showers, birthdays, Mother s Day or Father s Day. The best sound in the world is the glorious sound of your children laughing, says author Josie Bissett. Children love playfulness. They love silliness and they LOVE being tickled. Laughing together creates a bond between you and your children like no other. There is no greater gift than the gift of shared laughter and memories. A loveable monster with big puffy mitts has just flown in from Planet Tickle. His mission is to bring joy and laughter to Planet Earth. How? By tickling any child who happens to follow along in this book. Parents read aloud and do the tickling, while their children squirm and giggle with delight.

The RRP for this book is $23.95. You can buy it from Amazon for $11.53

A bountiful year for book lovers

WHICH would you rather read, a book about Julia Gillard or a book by, or about, Julian Assange? Timely stories of the redhead and the whitehead are both on offer in a very varied year of books.

Life stories top the adult book list in 2011, but it's also a strong year for fiction, notably Scandinavian thrillers (anything to do with the late Stieg Larsson?) and Australian trilogies, short stories and first fiction. We're also writing and publishing plenty of essays.

Whether your taste is for surrealism by Haruki Murakami or Scarecrow by Matthew Reilly, J. M. Coetzee or J. Trollope, there's something for you in 2011.

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The zen of speech?

It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn

--Robert Southey

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Like Father – like son – reading

he Finnish Library Association celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2010. On the occasion of the anniversary The Finnish Library Association wants to promote the important role of the libraries in cultural upbringing. The short film ‘Like Father, Like Son’ was originally produced for television but the Finnish and English versions are free to be diffused on the Internet.

Originally posted here...http://bit.ly/h6Fqr5

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Returning to Busytown: Remembering Richard Scarry

Up until that point few things perplexed Darra Pace more than the large yellow envelope from the south of France addressed to her four-year old son Michael. She, much less her son who was still in nursery school, didn't know of anyone who lived in or had recently visited France.

When she opened the envelope she was even more stunned at what she found inside. A few weeks earlier, Michael had written his favorite author a short fan letter. Inside the envelope from France was a personal page-long response. The author was the legendary children's writer and illustrator Richard Scarry. Writing directly to his fans was something Scarry did often, according to his son Huck.

read more => http://huff.to/dQYDOy

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Public Speaking – Research first – Audience as well as content

Everything that you say or do in your presentation has to be geared to your audience... what you want them to do or think at the end, what they will be receptive to, what their triggers are, the language that they will respond to.

So in researching that presentation to write it, or prepare it, you will also need to research the audience.

Find out as much as you can – their age range, gender, income levels, dreams, needs, wants, culture.

You can gain much from a registration form.

You can ask the event manager.

In your preparation routine, you can mingle with them before your speech.

Then you can use that information in constructing your speech. If you need to persuade, for example, you can use your knowledge of their interests and dreams.

You will choose language that they understand, and that is not irritating or offensive to them, and subject matter to suit that audience - themes, supports, anecdotes all will be tailored to them.

I'm not sure whether researching the audience is more important than researching content. What do you think?

I do know that for the content to be effective, the research you do on your audience will be vital.

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NewSouth ‘Huck Finn’ Eliminates the ‘N’ Word

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic by most any measure—T.S. Eliot called it a masterpiece, and Ernest Hemingway pronounced it the source of "all modern American literature." Yet, for decades, it has been disappearing from grade school curricula across the country, relegated to optional reading lists, or banned outright, appearing again and again on lists of the nation's most challenged books, and all for its repeated use of a single, singularly offensive word: "nigger."

Twain himself defined a "classic" as "a book which people praise and don't read." Rather than see Twain's most important work succumb to that fate, Twain scholar Alan Gribben and NewSouth Books plan to release a version of Huckleberry Finn, in a single volume with The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, that does away with the "n" word (as well as the "in" word, "Injun") by replacing it with the word "slave."

more...http://bit.ly/gwFqBG

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