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Children’s books

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The BBC Enlists Famous Children’s Authors To Pen Doctor Who Short Stories For 50th Anniversary

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:03 pm, January 4th, 2013

Once upon a time, there was a man called The Doctor. The BBC had the fantastic idea of inviting author’s of famous children’s works to collaborate on a series of eleven short stories for the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. Fans rejoiced. The End. 

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Things to Do With Your Kids

The Star Trek Book of Opposites Is Perfect for Your Adopted Klingon Child

by Alanna Bennett | 4:44 pm, August 11th, 2011

David Borgenicht is pretty awesome. We have decided this with very little evidence. In fact, our only piece of evidence consists of this, The Star Trek Book of Opposites, a picture book using pictures from Star Trek to illustrate the difference between different books. It is rather silly. In fact, that’s why we love it so. Next time we need to know the antonym to a certain word, we’re consulting this thing.

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Children’s Books, Translated Into Latin

by Jamie Frevele | 11:45 am, February 28th, 2011

Attention linguistics geeks: Are you the kind of person who scoffs at the idea of Latin as a “dead” language? We’re not sure why this happened, but we’re choosing to accept and embrace the fact that someone took the time to translate classic children’s books into Latin. For fun? For a college course? Who cares! Non plaudite. Modo pecuniam jacite. (Translated: Don’t applaud. Just throw money.) More titles after the jump.

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