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		<title>Book Giveaway: The Runaway Wok</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie  Burrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chinese New Year starts this week, and with it, dragon parades, fireworks and all sorts of tasty celebrations. So this is the perfect time to talk about award-winning Bay Area writer Ying Compestine and her newest book for kids. From hungry ghosts to “boy dumplings,” Chinese food, culture and folk tales have always appealed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Giveaway: Elves&#8217; First Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie  Burrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas is nearly here and we don&#8217;t know about you, but at our house, it&#8217;s a season that calls for books, books and more books. And this one &#8211; &#8220;The Elves&#8217; First Christmas&#8221; by Atsuko Morozumi &#8211; is particularly charming. The Japanese author and illustrator is a graduate of the Royal College of Art in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOOK Giveaway: Nonna Tell Me a Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie  Burrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whew &#8212; got so behind on this whole book giveaway thing. Sorry &#8217;bout that! But we&#8217;re back on track, and this time, we&#8217;re giving away a copy of Lidia Bastianich&#8217;s &#8211; yes, that Lidia Bastianich, of culinary and TV fame &#8211; &#8220;Lidia&#8217;s Christmas Kitchen: Nonna Tell Me a Story.&#8221; It&#8217;s the most darling book &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Giveaway: &#8220;Thumb Love&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie  Burrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every kid has pesky little habits and thumb sucking can be one of the most difficult to give up. Fortunately, New York Times bestselling author Elise Primavera understands. The author of &#8220;Auntie Claus&#8221; and a dozen other books has a new one out and it&#8217;s devoted to &#8220;Thumb Love.&#8221; It&#8217;s the story of Lulu, her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Giveaway: All the Seasons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie  Burrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy autumn! This week we&#8217;re giving away a copy of Deborah Lee Rose&#8217;s charming &#8220;All the Seasons of the Year,&#8221; a wonderfully illustrated, rhyming recounting of all the ways children &#8211; and kitties, piggies and pupppies &#8211; are loved throughout the year. Too cute for words, with lines like, &#8220;I love you when autumn fills [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Giveaway: Paranoid Parents Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie  Burrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shark bites, park predators, sex, drugs, rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll! Yep, 21st century parents have plenty to worry about. Only problem, says Christie Barnes, founder of Paranoid Parents Anonymous and author of the irresistible &#8220;Paranoid Parents Guide,&#8221; is that we&#8217;re worrying about the wrong things. Contrary to popular belief, your child is not going to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEENY Tiny Book Giveaway</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie  Burrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This adorable picture book is really five teeny tales, just the right length for bedtime (or naptime) storytelling. Sarah Hayes&#8217; &#8220;Teeny Tiny Tales for Toddlers&#8221; is all about the teeny tiny people who live in the garden. They&#8217;re not quite fairies, not quite elves, just seriously adorable. The prose has a nice lilting quality that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOOK GIVEAWAY: Jan Brett&#8217;s &#8220;Little Dassies&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie  Burrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve always been major Jan Brett fans &#8211; the stories! those illustrations! the little extras hidden in the decorative borders! Now Brett has a new book out, &#8220;The Three Little Dassies.&#8221; It&#8217;s the classic tale of the three little piggies, transplanted to Namibia in southern Africa, and it&#8217;s every bit as charming as all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TWILIGHT Baby Names</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie  Burrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahem. Apparently more than 8,000 parents gave their lovely little infants &#8220;Twilight&#8221; names last year. Yep, they&#8217;re naming their progeny after characters in Stephanie Meyer&#8217;s vampire series. Bella is suddenly the 58th most popular baby girl name in the nation &#8211; higher even than Miley (don&#8217;t get us started). Cullen is in the top 300, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GIVEAWAY: Miss Tutu&#8217;s Star</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackie  Burrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little girl who loves to twirl, a plethora of pink tutus and delightful rhyming prose combine to make Leslea Newman&#8217;s &#8220;Miss Tutu&#8217;s Star&#8221; (due out August 1 from Abrams Books for Young Readers) a winner for the preschool and young elementary set. We are helpless to resist lines like, &#8220;Selena took some steps with [...]]]></description>
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