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The Shootout

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An Aspen school teacher put my book into her weekly book “shootout”. The idea is that 2 books are read to the kids and they get to vote on their favorite one. Then that winner goes on to the next week and is read against another book. My book “Dad, the Tooth Fairy Didn’t Come!” www.jerrybegly.com/tooth.beat out 3 books, including “Stone Soup”. But when “Dad, the Tooth Fairy Didn’t Come!” went up against “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, I got knocked out. I told the teacher, “The GRINCH? Why didn’t you just throw me to the lions?” I was thrilled to be shot down by Dr. Seuss. The only thing better than that would be to get shot down by Snoopy on his doghouse.

The Bloggathon is Well Underway

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The Jerry Begly Bloggathon 2010 is moving right along. Thanks for joining me. I’m celebrating National Children’s Book Week www.bookweekonline.com with a post every two hours, through the 16th of May! What is really fun about this week, is that I get to celebrate, by offering you an opportunity to read my children’s book entitled “Dad, the Tooth Fairy Didn’t Come!” www.jerrybegly.com/tooth. As I sit here posting this, my son, Caleb is reformatting the 3rd Edition of the book which will be sent to the printers today. It freaks me out that we can edit and format the book, up here high in the Rockies completely off the grid, send it through the airwaves, and get it printed in the Good Old USA within a few weeks.

Yuck it Up During National Children’s Book Week

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Speaking of “Yuck!”, check out the website www.yucktruckseptic.com . If my son can make a septic pumping service website look cool, for a really reasonable price, imagine what he can doo doo for you you. (just a little septic humor there, folks). What does a septic pumping service have to do with National Children’s Book Week www.bookweekonline.com? It’s all about reading to kids, expanding their minds, getting them out of the nest , and watching them fly through the world making it a better place for everyone. And we all benefit; from you to me to the guy who works hard at his septic pumping business.