Kids say the darndest things! You just never know what’s gonna come out of their little mouths. One of our pals told us about this website called OutofTheMouthsof.com and we decided it would be fun to partner with them on a contest. Check it out at www.outofthemouthsof.com and if you have kids (or nephews, nieces, grandkids, whatever!) enter their quotes and you may win a new $250 library of our very own best-selling children’s books. The contest runs through the month of November and you can also vote for your favorite quotes. The winning three quotes will take home a $250 library of Chronicle’s children’s books, a $100 library of our parenting books, or a gift basket filled with $50 of method baby & kid products. A fourth award – “blogger’s favorite” – will be chosen by guest mom blogger, Jessica Turner of themomcreative.com (who we adore!), and awarded with a $50 Starbucks gift card.

Cathleen Brady
Director, Children’s Marketing & Publicity

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In addition to what my generation now deems Saturday morning cartoon classics (hello Smurfs!), I grew up watching Reading Rainbow—it premiered in 1983 and I was five years old. I remember the opening—the cartoon butterfly transforming the surroundings of young children reading books into cartoon fantasylands. I was in awe. In 2000, PBS launched a similar program, Reading Between the Lions. It features two “mane” costumed characters, lion cubs Lionel and Leona. I am not still five-years old (go figure) and have lost that unparalleled sense of wonder and discovery that all young children have, but I’d like to think this new program is just as special to little ones today—heck, I’m just glad there are still programs in our overstimulated era that bring books and reading to life.

Reading Between the Lions featured one of our picture books, An Egg Is Quiet, this season. Unlike 1983, you can view it here.

For Reading Rainbow show times, go here.
For Reading Between the Lions show times, go here.

I fondly quote friendly LeVar’s famous signoff, “I’ll see you next time.”

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