Looking Back to August 2011
Updated: 2012-08-30 20:00:00
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: , skip to main skip to sidebar Home About Me New Review Policy Book Chook Bag of Tricks Popular Posts Contribute Blog Roll Subscribe Enter your email : address Delivered by FeedBurner Subscribe in a reader Follow me Fabulous Book Chook Followers Networked Blogs Follow this blog Grab My Badge Kids Book Review Love 2 Read Pages Home Blog Table of Contents Contribute to The Book Chook Popular Posts Blog Roll Wednesday , August 29, 2012 Children's App Review , How the dodo learned to fly I have a soft spot in my heart for dodos , mostly because one of my own children's novels features one . So I decided to take a look at a free book app : How the dodo earned to fly by Olivier Mamet . When kids click on the icon in their iPads , it opens to a screen inviting them to choose Info , Read myself 
: skip to main skip to sidebar Home About Me New Review Policy Book Chook Bag of Tricks Popular Posts Contribute Blog Roll Subscribe Enter your email : address Delivered by FeedBurner Subscribe in a reader Follow me Fabulous Book Chook Followers Networked Blogs Follow this blog Grab My Badge Kids Book Review Love 2 Read Pages Home Blog Table of Contents Contribute to The Book Chook Popular Posts Blog Roll Monday , August 27, 2012 Tips and Prompts for Young Writers All writers have days when they need something to kickstart their writing . Here are some prompts and tips for when that happens to you . Try those two magic words , what and if Do this by asking yourself what if : questions what if your greatest wish came true what if you found a baby monster what if you were invisible what if
: skip to main skip to sidebar Home About Me New Review Policy Book Chook Bag of Tricks Popular Posts Contribute Blog Roll Subscribe Enter your email : address Delivered by FeedBurner Subscribe in a reader Follow me Fabulous Book Chook Followers Networked Blogs Follow this blog Grab My Badge Kids Book Review Love 2 Read Pages Home Blog Table of Contents Contribute to The Book Chook Popular Posts Blog Roll Friday , August 24, 2012 Let's Celebrate The Reading Hour Have you noticed The Reading Hour Countdown widget in my right sidebar Tomorrow , August 25 2012, is The Reading Hour in Australia What a great culmination to Children's Book Week At the website , The Reading Hour you'll find details of lots of great events , as well as the results of contests held to celebrate the National Year of
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: , skip to main skip to sidebar Home About Me New Review Policy Book Chook Bag of Tricks Popular Posts Contribute Blog Roll Subscribe Enter your email : address Delivered by FeedBurner Subscribe in a reader Follow me Fabulous Book Chook Followers Networked Blogs Follow this blog Grab My Badge Kids Book Review Love 2 Read Pages Home Blog Table of Contents Contribute to The Book Chook Popular Posts Blog Roll Monday , August 20, 2012 Children's Book Week , 2012 Quiz This week is Children's Book Week here in Australia . It's a fine time to visit a library , go on a book picnic , or plan what you will do for The Reading Hour on August 25. Why not try your hand at creating a quiz with your kids to celebrate Children's Book Week You'll find more ideas and activities in these earlier posts :
: skip to main skip to sidebar Home About Me New Review Policy Book Chook Bag of Tricks Popular Posts Contribute Blog Roll Subscribe Enter your email : address Delivered by FeedBurner Subscribe in a reader Follow me Fabulous Book Chook Followers Networked Blogs Follow this blog Grab My Badge Kids Book Review Love 2 Read Pages Home Blog Table of Contents Contribute to The Book Chook Popular Posts Blog Roll Friday , August 17, 2012 Let's Celebrate Tell a Joke Day Tell a Joke Day is officially August 16 in the USA . But here at The Book Chook , almost any day can be Tell a Joke Day Jokes are a great way to entice kids , who think they don't like books , to reading . They might enjoy borrowing joke or riddle collections from your local or school library . Another enticing idea might be to
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