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Posts from the ‘Miscellaneous’ category

Mad Lib Spam

Normally, I just skim the comments that end up in my spam folder and delete them without thinking too much about them. I do this, because…

Wandering around Chicago with The Seven-Year-Old: The Osaka Garden on Chicago’s Wooded Island

Next time you’re at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, take a few minutes to follow the walking trail behind the museum across the Clarence Darrow and/or North bridges.

There you’ll find Frederick Law Olmsted’s Wooded Island and the Osaka Garden, one of the few remaining remnants of the 1893 Columbian Exposition.  The island has been converted into a nature sanctuary and is an important stopping point for birds migrating through the Midwest.

The Villains of Children’s Fiction in the Dock

Over the weekend, a Caterpickles reader in London sent me a copy of an infographic from Lovereading detailing the sentences famous children’s book villains would have received, had they been tried in a European court (Thanks, Joe!).

I had two responses to it: 1) I cannot believe the terrible things that happen in children’s books. 2) Mr. McGregor TOTALLY deserved what he got.