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Noah Webster Corn Maze

On September 12, 2011 By

Submitted by James Marsh, The Book House:

Just read your ATG Book of the Week on Noah Webster. I thought you might get a kick out of the following link that my daughter is involved with: www.mikesmaze.com . It’s a corn maze in western MA with Noah as this year’s “subject.”

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WHAT ANIMALS DO BEFORE A HURRICANE
Picture Book Explains How Animals Prepare for this Natural Disaster

To better help parents and educators explain hurricanes to children, Sylvan Dell Publishing is proud to offer Ready, Set…WAIT!: What Animals Do Before a Hurricane free on their website, www.SylvanDellPublishing.com until September 17th. Vetted by experts [...]

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Thanks to John Riley (BUSCA) for submitting this link from www.physorg.com:

“Robots removing a book off a shelf? Hardly what you would consider worthy of a video award. Not unless you’re talking about a special platoon of robots known as a swarmanoid. Their book heist actually won the “Oscars” of the Association for the Advancement [...]

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Pepper

On July 28, 2011 By

Picture submitted by Christine Ross, University of Florida

Pepper LOVES bags, boxes – anything she can crawl inside – only takes her seconds once one is set on the ground. This photo, although you cannot see the label, features her sleeping inside an EBSCO bag that I got from a vendor table.

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