Read time: 328 words, 1 minute. Before A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens was in serious debt. He wrote the book quickly. Paid for the printing himself. Its success didn't just create a Christmas classic. It kept him financially afloat.-Kabir & Sue 🪣Monthly Bucket - December📚 Books Christmas Is ComingBy Monika Utnik-Strugala (Illustrated by Ewa Poklewska-Koziello)This book captures the smells and tastes of unique Christmas customs and traditions from around the world. Find out why Christmas...
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Read time: 287 words, 1 minute. Our favorite holiday is almost here: Diwali is November 8.Yes, Diwali is the festival of lights. It is also the festival of cleaning things you forgot you owned. Drawers get emptied.Shelves get wiped.Corners get noticed.Then the lights come on.-Kabir & Sue 🪣Monthly Bucket - November📚 3 Books It's DiwaliBy Kabir & Surishtha Sehgal (Illustrated by Archana Sreenivasan)Count up to ten and back down again to the tune of "One, Two, Buckle My Shoe" while learning...
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Read time: 327 words, 1 minute. The Brooklyn Children’s Museum was the first children's museum in the world. It opened in 1899. At the time, the idea was radical.A museum designed only for children.Not quieter.Not simpler.Just different. Adults worried it would feel chaotic.Founders argued that noise meant thinking. That assumption shaped every children’s museum that came after.-Kabir & Sue PS - Our new book drops next month Monthly Bucket - September📚 Books Mary Morland in the Time of...
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Read time: 354 words, 1 minute. Picture books are printed on heavy paper for a reason. Not just to look nice.Or feel expensive. They’re meant to be read again.And again. Kids pull pages.Lean on them.Turn them with whole hands. Libraries noticed this early.So did publishers. If a book falls apart after a few reads, it disappears from shelves.If it survives, it stays in circulation. The format follows the behavior. -Kabir & Sue Monthly Bucket - August📚 Books Dim Sum for Everyone!By Grace LinA...
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Read time: 372 words, 1 minute. More than 40 years after her death, Agatha Christie is teaching writing again. Her estate has licensed her voice, style, and advice to create new lessons for aspiring authors. So, we hope that someone writes this book...The Enigma of the Overbooked Vacation House Three families arrive.One house exists.The calendar shows everyone is right.Miss Marple solves it by asking the one question no one else thought to ask.-Kabir & Sue Monthly Bucket - July📚 Books André:...
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