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Anna Laetitia Barbauld


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Pigeon Post


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Hot Chip


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Pickle Barrel House


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Alamogordo Public Library


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The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes


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Cody Caves


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Ruth Riley


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The History of the Fairchild Family


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Alexander Pushkin


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L. Frank Baum


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Work by Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel


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Mark Souder


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Phil Lynott


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Louisiana


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Lamb Chop


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Sesame Street


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Roosevelt Community Library


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Carol Chomsky

  • ...that linguist Carol Chomsky (pictured) developed the technique of repeated reading, in which children gain fluency by reading along with a recording of a text until they can do so on their own?
  • ...that Ebba Haslund's adolescence novel Nothing Happened was virtually ignored by the press when it was first issued in Norwegian in 1948, but was later regarded as one of her most important books?
  • ... that English dramatist Edward Rose published The Rose Reader, "a new way of teaching to read," that only used words that were spelled as they sounded?

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Jules Verne


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Marcus Cornish's life-size bronze sculpture of Paddington Bear that stands in Paddington Station in London


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