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What better way of teaching future Starfleet officers the strange new worlds of opposites than by using illustrations from the greatest sci-fi show ever?
David Borgenicht went where no man has gone before with his book: The Star Trek Book of Opposites, published by Quirk Books.
NeatoBambino has a peek inside: Link - Thanks Mari Kraske!
Just in time for the aflocalypse, here’s John Cuneo‘s new children’s book to explain the mystery of the avian mass death around the world:
Storybook Zoobies: Olivia, Peter Rabbit, and Paddington Bear – $33.95 ea.
Don’t let my kids see these Storybook Zoobies from the NeatoShop or we won’t have any to sell! (They’re not old enough to realize that their parents sell toys and other fun stuff, every kid’s dreams …)
Zoobie is a plush toy, soft pillow, and warm blanket all in one. The Storybook Zoobie line features characters from famous children’s books like Ian Falconer’s Olivia (our children’s favorite), Beatrix Potter’s mischevious Peter Rabbit, and Michael Bond’s Paddington Bear (from Darkest Peru – marmalade sandwich not included)
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Once upon a time, little girls are made of sugar and spice and all things nice and little boys are made of frogs and snails and puppy-dog tails … but no more!
Enter the feminist book for children:
Bring on Jacinta Bunnell’s colouring book Girls Are Not Chicks, published in the UK this week. The New York-based author first had the idea for feminist books for children when reading bedtime stories as a nanny. "I found myself editing the words so as not to pass on a sexist message," she says. "In most children’s books the girls have pretty frocks and bows in their hair, so I would turn it around – call the boys by girls’ names and vice versa."
In the US "anti-princess reading lists" have appeared, pioneered by the websites Mommytracked.com and Bitchmagazine.org. There are now books for three- to eight-year-olds with a specifically feminist agenda: Call me Madame President, Girls Think of Everything, Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls.
Viv Groskop of The Guardian has the run down of books that’ll turn your little princesses into Betty Friedans in no time flat: Link
