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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR. SEUSS!

In celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday, there are celebrations going on all over the country this week, including Read Across America . Go read a book aloud with your kids! And then go take a listen to this really amazing music on a site sent to me by my new friend, Greg Pincus : Dylan Hears a Who - it's Seuss's books set to Bob Dylan's musical stylings. It's a HOOOOOT!
 

Name Generators Making the Rounds on the Web
received from Candie Moonshower

I love this site, which generates loads of random names, based on US
census data. You can adjust the "obscurity" too.
http://www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm

And if you're looking for names that were popular at a perticular time
in US history (just play with it a bit):
http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

This one generates international names, though it seems to be down now:
http://www.behindthename.com/random/

And this one generates names, addresses, and even phony phone numbers
and credit card numbers.
http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/index.php
 
 
 

FREE DOWNLOAD!

Click here to hear Clive Barker reading ABARAT: DAYS OF MAGIC, NIGHTS OF WAR - it's the Prologue, and it's a big file, but SO worth the wait! It's in MP3 format, and distributed here with permission from HarperCollins.

 

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Cool Book Notes

BookCrossing.com - Books Just Wanna Be Free! Do you have books you'd be willing to release into the wild? Go to this Website and download a free bookplate. Register your email and then set your books free. As they find new homes, their new owners can come to Book Crossing and report on the book, where it is, how it's doing, and where/when they will release it in turn. It's really a lot of fun.

Kelly Milner Halls told me about the discovery of a new dinosaur that looks so much like a dragon, the scientists who found it named it such, and they also gave it a great literary link, too: Dracorex Hogwartsia. Yes, they've named the dinosaur in honor of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, and all the dinosaur events that take place at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Rowling was both honored and touched. “The naming of Dracorex hogwartsia is easily the most unexpected honour to have come my way since the publication of the Harry Potter books! I am absolutely thrilled to think that Hogwarts has made a small (claw?) mark upon the fascinating world of dinosaurs.”

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