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Incredibooks Hits 400 Reviews

Here we are at another milestone. 400 reviews! Don’t worry, we’re not stopping. We fully intend to keep on going, with more great books for kids and teens and their families.

Appreciate a Dragon Day!

As proclaimed by DragonKeeper, today is Appreciate a Dragon Day! On their site they suggest creating dragon artwork to celebrate the day. We’ve decided to just do a huge roundup of our dragon reviews.

Two series largely based on dragons:

Several individual dragon books:

And here’s a link to our generic dragon category.

A. A. Milne on The Muppet Show

My family and I were watching the The Muppet Show – Season One DVD collection awhile ago. We noticed that a couple A. A. Milne poems appear set to music:

In the Florence Henderson episode, Rowlf the piano-playing dog sings “Cottlestone Pie”, from Winnie-the-Pooh, after stating that Pooh used to sing this song when he was perplexed.

Also, in the Harvey Korman episode, Robin sings “Halfway Down the Stairs” from When We Were Very Young.

Prince Caspian Movie Trailer Released

Walt Disney and Walden Media have released a trailer for the upcoming movie Prince Caspian, based on the book by C. S. Lewis. This is shaping up to be a very cool movie! Go watch the trailer!

Incredibooks in Practical Homeschooling Magazine

We are very pleased to receive Honorable Mention in the category Literature/Writing in Practical Homeschooling’s 2007 Interactive Learning Awards. Thanks to everybody who voted for us!

It is interesting to note that Incredibooks is the only Literature Web site or software listed in the category. The three above us all fall underneath the Writing part of the category.

I would link to the results page on the Practical Homeschooling Web site, but I can’t find anything there about it. If anybody finds it, please leave a comment and pass along the link.