Dr. Seuss and Read Across America - PKTR 23

My blogger friend over at Building Camelot wrote a great post about Read Across America and we liked it so much, we decided to devote a show to this celebration of reading.

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss! Well, that wish would undoubtedly mean more if he were still alive, but...in honor of his birthday, we discuss all things Seuss in this show.



You'll hear about Seussville, Fox in Socks, Cat in the Hat and so much more!

Is your tongue numb yet?

We mentioned a place in Universal Studios where you feel as if you're in Seussville. That place is called Seuss Landing and it's at Islands of Adventure within Universal Orlando. For more information, just visit their site.

Thanks for listening!

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Images from Seussville.com and Amazon.

Perfect Picture Books - PKTR 16

For a variety of reasons, the PKTR hosts felt motivated to do a show all about picture books. First of all, with the ongoing WGA strike, there's nothing on television (was there ever anyway?). Secondly, we've read about a decline in time spent reading and have heard that more and more parents are spending less time with their kids while at the same time we've read about how important reading is to our minds. So...somehow we put that all together and thought maybe in some small way we can help by providing a list of picture books that are good for kids, fun for parents to read and some of which you may not have heard about until now.

Listen to the podcast for detailed descriptions of each of these books (and a few more!).

So here it is:

Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems

little blue and little yellow by Leo Lionni

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

When Sophie Gets Angry -- Really, Really Angry... by Molly Bang

Cows Can't Fly by David Milgrim

Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

You and Me, Little Bear by Martin Waddell

Good Job, Oliver! by Laurel Molk

Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey

If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon

Click, Clack, MOO: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin

The Sneetches (and Other Stories) by Dr. Seuss

Duck for President by Doreen Cronin

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