Duckies - Day Two

Here is a video of the ducklings - second morning:

Duck video for facebook members

http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=772464399&k=3XGX6ZTR3TYDXCMAPK5VPVVPTR1E2Z&oid=1279222434654

Click on the link above to see the birth of a duck this morning!

Mad as a Hatter?

This link from Jake and Jared's grandfather:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/work/england/coventry_warwick/article_2.shtml

He shared this with me after hearing a reading from Alice in Wonderland at school today. It turns out that hatters were actually mad!

The Kane Chronicles

Thanks to Jade, here is the link to a sneak peak of Rick Riordan's Red Pyramid:

http://disney.go.com/disneybooks/kanechronicles/

Way cool!!

Cool Google Tips

Did you know that Google has a built in calculator? Or that you can type in TIME and then the place and it will tell you the local time at that moment? and eight other cool things from the link below:

http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/04/01/10-simple-google-search-tricks/

Happy Birthday, Ludwig Bemelmans!!!

Happy Birthday to Ludwig Bemelmans, the author of the Madeline series!! Here is a link to more about that:

http://readkiddoread.ning.com/profiles/blogs/happy-birthday-ludwig?xg_source=activity

Enjoy

Janet

NYPL Children's Resources

http://www.nypl.org/help/getting-oriented/resources-kids

Click the link above for great resources "On-Lion" for Kids and Tumble Books, online books for children - including books in Spanish!

Links are also on our Cool Web Sites column.

Enjoy!