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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.

9 Year Old After Dinner Speaker

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My 9 year old son is sitting next to me reading “The Speaker’s Desk Book”. It has “5000 Sparkling Epigrams” and “1187 Anecdotes” in addition to “Jewels of Thought…Oft-quoted Masterpieces of all time…” The reason he’s reading it is because he loves to read.  His mother and I have read to him since he was far too young to know what we were saying.  Now, instead of watching TV or playing video games, or texting his buddies, or surfing the net, he reads. And he DOES get to visit far away places and times and people and use his imagination, and build his vocabulary and become a more mature person.  Who knows? With resources like “The Speakers Desk Book” he may very well become a sought after speaker, or an eloquent statesman. Celebrate National Children’s Book Week ( www.bookweekonline.com )  by reading to your little ones.