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	<description>Once upon a time...</description>
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		<title>Avoid the Summer Reading Slide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 01:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ages 12 - up]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lisa Dalesandro/ @abookmama There’s an old axiom in education that goes — you get dumber in the summer.             Yes, our kids are busy.  Many have crazy schedules with school, sports, music, etc.  Then along comes summer break and many parents think — whew, the poor darlings need some down time.               If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Should Think About Turning Off The TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a beautiful spring day (well, at least it is where I am) so turn off the boob-tube, put down your cell, power down the laptop and go outside and do something with your kids.   Did you know that the average child spends 8 hours a day using a phone, TV, game system or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Places That Want Your Used Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ages 8 - 12]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reposting this in case you&#8217;re thinking about doing a little spring cleaning this weekend and were looking for someplace to donate your gently used books. We&#8217;ve all got a pile of gently used picture books that your kids have long outgrown, or maybe it&#8217;s that dusty pile of current chick-lit by your bedside that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, It&#8217;s True.  I Let My 10-Year-Old Read &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ages 8 - 12]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;          The whole dilemma started in ballet class. My daughter is part of a dance company comprised of girls between the ages of 9 and 16.  It was those darn teenagers that got us into trouble.           Apparently in the dressing room, the older girls had been talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Book Mama&#8217;s First Interview!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ages 12 - up]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently contacted by writer Kerry Luksic (Life Lessons from a Baker’s Dozen) who interviewed little old me for the site Parents&#8217; Guide News on the subject of how to encourage kids to become strong readers.   The article entitled &#8220;How to Help Kids Get on the Book Bandwagon&#8221; came out this week on ParentsGuideNews.com. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study links reading to young children to improved teen literacy</title>
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		<comments>http://www.thebookmama.com/study-links-reading-to-young-children-to-improved-teen-literacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ages 12 - up]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing with this month&#8217;s theme touting the benefits of reading aloud to your children, a report from the international Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development recently examined the long-term impact of parental support on literacy and found a strong link between reading aloud to young children and later teenage reading abilities.  It also found that things like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bedtime Reading Promotes Later Literacy</title>
		<link>http://www.thebookmama.com/bedtime-reading-promotes-later-literacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ages 4 - 8]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The good news is that reading “Goodnight Moon” or &#8220;Runaway Bunny&#8221; 10,000 times to your toddler wasn’t a waste of time after all.  Quite the contrary, in fact. According to a study from Boston University, published in the Journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, reading to young children stimulates their development and gives them a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Dr. Seuss Stories Hits Shelves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ages 4 - 8]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories&#8221; by Dr. Seuss The late Theodor Geisel (more commonly known to you and me as Dr. Seuss), is making a triumphant return. Seven rarely-seen Seuss tales are collected in The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories, which were just published this September by Random House.  The stories originally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My First Cavity Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grown up book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the great tradition of &#8220;Go the F*#k to Sleep&#8221; comes a new informational book for the little ones. *Note &#8212; Not an actual book.  Yet. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Terrible Tween &#8212; &#8220;How to Hug a Porcupine&#8221; by Julie A. Ross</title>
		<link>http://www.thebookmama.com/my-first-review-of-a-parenting-advice-book-how-to-hug-a-porcupine-by-julie-a-ross/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebookmama.com/my-first-review-of-a-parenting-advice-book-how-to-hug-a-porcupine-by-julie-a-ross/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grown up book]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t even have a &#8216;tween yet and already I&#8217;m getting attitude, defiance and what I can only compare to the occasional &#8220;toddler-esque&#8221; tantrum.  What the heck is going on?  And will we even live to see middle school? Yesterday, my child was a sweet, well-adjusted eight-year-old. Today, a moody, disrespectful ten-year-old. What happened? And [...]]]></description>
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