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great one why don t more people market books and beds together beds and books should always be seen as symbiotic entities yes my kid reads everywhere at the breakfast table on the toilet on a shelf in one of our closets that she calls her reading nook reading isn t only for bedtime but some of our best most memorable reading moments have occurred in bed when i bought the final harry potter book the morning it was released i retreated into our guest room sprawled out on the bed and only came out for bathroom breaks and to loudly annoy my wife with comments like oh my god you wouldn t believe who just died when i was first introducing our infant daughter to books we started in our rocker next to the crib which was intimate and amazing but i still remember the day she got her first big girl bed and i could finally squeeze into it with her and read a pile of our favorite picture books until i could feel her fall asleep on my right shoulder her side of the bed is right mine is left no idea why but we never deviate my daughter has been introduced to hogwarts narnia oz and thousands of other precious literary landscapes in her little twin bed with a hodgepodge pile of pillows behind us her discounted muppets sheets from target below us and her fire engine red ikea desk lamp next to us giving us just enough mood lighting to always try for one chapter more you ll see a lot of talk online about the importance of creating safe reading spaces for kids and i couldn t agree more kids needs places where they really feel comfortable to curl up with a good book and let themselves explore but personally i think beds are often overlooked as reading spaces which is a shame not only are beds comfortable sometimes they re too comfortable and you do more sleeping than reading i get that criticism but they also represent these inviting safe places where we spend almost a quarter of our lives we re open in bed we relax in bed we let our guards down in bed those are just a few of the reasons why bedtime reading with your kids is so important it s that symbiotic relationship between bed and books lying in bed can make you more open to the ideas images and emotions of a book but the right book can also act as the perfect guide into a really restful night of sleep the rhythms of reading are soothing they can both expand your mind and relax it reading in bed can either give you a mental workout that knocks you out or it can give you a mental massage that lulls you into a deep deep sleep i will say that without a doubt my daughter always always sleeps better if we read to her before bed so for international children s book day here s what i want you to do grab a children s book an old favorite and read it in bed tonight if you have kids great revisit a classic with them and enjoy the togetherness if you don t have kids no big deal find one of your childhood favorites and just try to lose yourself in the images and cadences and the memories of reading in your pajamas oh and if you are a parent make sure that your kid has enough pillows a good bed side lamp and a flashlight so they can keep reading long after you told them to stop some things are more important than sleep what if you can t think of a good book to read at bedtime fair question here are a few of my favorite bedtime kids books some are soothing some are beautiful some are uproariously funny and actually wake your kid up which sounds counter productive which it is but it s a whole lot of fun too read the rest of the post 3 comments star wars head to head and the importance of inspiring debate with young readers by tom b oh the things your child will bring home from school i just had a 20 minute conversation with my daughter about who would win in a fight between darth vader and yoda and it was honest to god part of her homework let s give it up for public schools nerds the debate was inspired by a book called star wars head to head the 30 wildest matchups you ve never seen by pablo hidalgo and i m not sure if i want to throw the book in the garbage or give it a teen movie style slow clap to acknowledge it as a subversive masterpiece my daughter is in first grade and her class has a daily homework reading program called book in a bag every day she comes home with a new book in a bag that she s supposed to read with us that night after she reads it on her own we have to decide if the book was easy just right or hard for her to read and fill out an attached form it s a good concept though the books my daughter brings home sometimes can leave a lot of be desired occasionally she ll bring home a familiar gem the princess and the pizza but often she s bringing home phonics focused easy readers that are way too easy for her or she s bringing home media tie in books my little pony star wars etc that just seem designed to lure kids away from legitimate works of literature or at least that s how it feels sometimes said the grumpy dad with his own kid lit blog but i totally understand why my daughter s teacher includes those titles in the book in a bag program yes they might not be well written but the kids love them they gravitate towards those books and since those titles appeal to their basest lizard brain impulses they feel a sense of ownership when they pick them out and get excited about reading them i get it most of them suck but i get it they re dessert reading and every kid is entitled to dessert occasionally right just not all the time dessert all the time just leads to sloth rot and general queasiness so if my kid comes home with a star wars book from school it s no big deal provided that she realizes that we re reading shel silverstein or maurice sendak at bedtime to balance out her diet i refuse to acknowledge the validity of this duel that being said we actually had a very fun time going through star wars head to head the 30 wildest matchups you ve never seen last night granted it s not the easiest book for a kid to read on their own each page is set up as stats page for various characters and vehicles so there s a lot of small type metadata for kids to sort through did you know that darth vader s height weight is 2 02 meters 136 kilograms i do now however the concept of the book is extremely easy to grasp on each two page spread two characters or vehicles are featured and the book essentially asks the question between these two contestants who would win in a fight yoda vs vader obi wan vs boba fett luke vs anakin jawa vs ewok star destroyer vs trade federation battleship and as much as i hate to admit this that simple concept inspired a night of very entertaining very detailed theoretical debate between my daughter and i a result that i wasn t expecting at all ok billy dee williams should be legitimately upset about this maybe i m just used to the normal kid s book media tie in methodology where the book just clumsily retells a story that was previously told better in another medium but at its core star wars head to head has an infinitely more engaging mission it s a book designed to be a discussion starter yes it s filled with clumsy instruction manual esque prose and photoshopped artwork but every two page spread is actually asking its reader a question which one would you pick and that one simple question turns those readers into active participants with the book read the rest of the post 8 comments photographic proof that detroit is the home of ilvermorny j k rowling s north american wizard school updated by tom b i ve got big news for harry potter fans some of you may have read my earlier post why detroit is the perfect home for ilvermorny which collected my arguments for why i thought that the motor city would make an ideal location for j k rowling s recently announced north american wizarding school well my daughter and i were so eager to get our theory confirmed that we took a drive down to detroit to see if we could find any evidence of ilvermorny and guess what we found it you could see ilvermorny all over the motown and we had a terrific time checking out the classrooms the library the great hall what a school i posted the first batch of our ilvermorny pictures on my instagram account and i ve collected some of the best ones below i have even more to share so keep checking back to see more snapshots from our amazing school visit you can read more of my ilvermorny theories and tweets if you follow the ilvermorny hashtag on twitter and fellow detroiters if you have additional photographic evidence that ilvermorny is in fact in our beloved city please share links to the pictures in the comments below i know the official announcement of ilvermorny s location hasn t been made yet but i am really proud to see so much evidence of the noble wizarding tradition in my hometown i think detroit would be and is a great home for ilvermorny we have photographic proof that detroit is the home of ilvermorny jk rowling s recently announced north american wizard school we visited the campus of ilvermorny today and it was amazing here s the main building cleverly disguised from muggles and we have a lot more to share harrypotter ilvermorny detroit detroitisilvermorny harrypotter jkrowling pottermore a photo posted by tom b buildingalibrary on feb 5 2016 at 6 00pm pst our next stop on detroit s ilvermorny campus was the east hall this is where the first years take their history of magic and transfiguration classes detroitisilvermorny ilvermorny harrypotter jkrowling detroit detroitisilvermorny pottermore a photo posted by tom b buildingalibrary on feb 5 2016 at 6 04pm pst this is the potions classroom the ilvermorny professors are much nicer than snape or slughorn harrypotter detroitisilvermorny ilvermorny detroit jkrowling pottermore a photo posted by tom b buildingalibrary on feb 5 2016 at 6 06pm pst took a break in between classes to catch up on our fantastic beasts and where to find them ilvermorny s detroit campus has a fantastic library fantasticbeastsandwheretofindthem ilvermorny detroitisilvermorny jkrowling detroit harrypotter a photo posted by tom b buildingalibrary on feb 5 2016 at 6 09pm pst one reason why we re glad ilvermorny is in detroit it has a remarkable series of herbology greenhouses neville longbottom would be in heaven ilvermorny detroit detroitisilvermorny harrypotter jkrowling pottermore a photo posted by tom b buildingalibrary on feb 5 2016 at 6 12pm pst read the rest of the post 5 comments why detroit is the perfect home for ilvermorny j k rowling s north american wizarding school by tom b it looks like detroit architecture to me last week pottermore the official website for all things harry potter announced the existence of four previously unmentioned international wizarding schools we learned about the brazilian school of castelobruxo africa s esteemed uagadou school and japan s magical academy mahoutokoro all with new descriptions penned by j k rowling herself we also learned the name of the long awaited north american wizarding school ilvermorny though pottermore hasn t released rowling s description of the school or the school s location yet all we got was a name and an illustration of the school shrouded in clouds hovering above the great lakes region and as an impatient fanboy that got me excited because i m from the great lakes region specifically i m from detroit one of the most notorious and misunderstood cities in north america and i personally think that detroit would make a tremendous home for ilvermorny i really do i think that wizarding academy has been here all along j k rowling might prove me wrong in a few days but in the meantime i took to twitter today to make my case for why detroit would be the idea home for ilvermorny and i think i have a few decent points if you agree chime into the discussion and show me your reasoning if you disagree philistine tell me why ilvermorny exists anywhere else why ilvermorny should be in detroit it appears to be a ruin to muggles but people in the know can see what it really is tom b buildalibrary february 1 2016 why ilvermorny should be in detroit guess who died in detroit harry houdini vengeful wizards didn t like a non maj trying to debunk them tom b buildalibrary february 1 2016 why ilvermorny should be in detroit have you ever been inside the detroit institute of arts those paintings talk man tom b buildalibrary february 1 2016 why ilvermorny should be in detroit famous case of a detroit teacher breaking up a classroom fight with a broom it was a nimbus 2000 tom b buildalibrary february 1 2016 why ilvermorny should be in detroit detroit education could really really use a win jk_rowling just sayin tom b buildalibrary february 1 2016 why ilvermorny should be in detroit detroit makes magical things we re makers tinkerers we re experts at making the abstract real tom b buildalibrary february 1 2016 why ilvermorny should be in detroit because my daughter is 9 now and with that easy commute i could see her all the time tom b buildalibrary february 1 2016 read the rest of the post 1 comment crash adams is the strong kidlit heroine that your daughters and sons have been waiting for by tom b crash adams is 10 and i m pretty sure she could kick my butt i have a nine year old daughter so every time i go into a bookstore i am on the lookout for strong female protagonists i spend an inordinate amount of time flipping through books that have been recommended by friends quickly trying to evaluate their female characters hoping that they re active interesting and actually contribute something to the story basically i m trying to get a sense of whether or not the female lead will cause my daughter to pump her fist and scream heck yeah or quietly shut the book and forlornly say but she didn t do anything crash adams made my daughter pump her fist the adventures of crash adams one ear returns is the first in a new independently published middle grade reader series by mike adamick i m a big fan of adamick s he has a tremendous blog and he s written a number of incredibly fun nonfiction books titles like dad s book of awesome projects dad s book of awesome recipes and dad s book of awesome science projects adamick s nonfiction works celebrate the wonders of kids getting their hands dirty and actually making something doing something building things from scratch and his first foray into fiction carries those themes over nicely the story of one ear returns is simple and short but the character is anything but crash adams is a dirt covered self reliant ten year old girl whose family moved out to a small farm in marin county california a few years earlier crash roams the wilderness surrounding her farm with her faithful dog zorro who is preternaturally skilled at understanding commands and learns as much as she can from experiencing nature firsthand if your kids enjoyed rey in star wars the force awakens they ll find a kindred spirit in crash she s the kind of singularly capable adventurous kid that we 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