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Reading While Eating for April 13: Forever Young

Friday’s links look back at the days of jump rope, children’s books and Myspace.

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Colbert Report Segment Leads to Actual Children's-Book Deal

Grand Central Publishing announced Tuesday it will publish the book — an illustrated account of a pole’s journey to self-discovery – on May 8.

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Reading While Eating for October 3: Kid Stuff

Monday’s links ease you into the week with Ren & Stimpy and a cute animal video.

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Scratch ‘N Sniff Book on New York, Concrete Jungle Where Smells are Everywhere Is Coming Soon

An upcoming children’s book will have scratch-and-sniff pages featuring New York’s signature smells. NewsFeed hopes it doesn’t have a page that smells like subway goers’ body odor.

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Kid Won’t Nod Off? Have Her Listen to Samuel L. Jackson Read ‘Go the F— to Sleep’

It’s possible that Samuel L. Jackson has the best voice in the motion picture industry today.

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Hey, Look! It’s a New Book! ‘Lost’ Dr. Seuss Stories to be Published

Random House has uncovered seven Seuss stories that were published in magazines in the 1950s but have never appeared as books. Acceptable reactions include “Happy as a clam, I am!” and “Oh, the fun words I’ll get to say!” 

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From Celebrity Gossip to Children’s Lessons: Perez Hilton Pens Kids’ Book

Perez Hilton has accumulated quite the list of descriptors over the past few years: snarky gossip; cyber-bully; troublemaker. But now he can add a new one to the list: children’s author.

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Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss! Lessons for Adults from the Father of Children’s Stories

Today marks the 107th birthday of Theodore Seuss Geisel, one of the greatest authors of children’s books of all time. While some of us may be a bit rusty on his literature, adults can learn a lot from Seuss’s work.