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Celebrate Women Authors on International Women's Day

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Celebrate Women Authors on International Women's Day
It's International Women’s Day! In celebration, we’d like to highlight our wonderful women authors. 

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Easy Halloween Costumes for the Unique Bookworm

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Easy Halloween Costumes for the Unique Bookworm
Looking for costume ideas? Here are 5 suggestions for the unique bookworm.

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Painting With Sand

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Painting With Sand

Sunae is a Japanese technique of painting with colored sand, but it’s not very well known. Naoshi, author and illustrator of Ice Cream Work, is working to make this unique method more recognizable. Not only did she use Sunae throughout her entire book, but she also participates in a variety of projects to help people realize how neat this technique is and how easy it is to learn. Talking about Sunae isn’t as exciting as watching videos and trying it out on your own. So, here’s your chance to learn how to create paintings with colored sand. Watch these three...

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The Museum of Ice Cream—Naoshi's Book Come to Life

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The Museum of Ice Cream—Naoshi's Book Come to Life

Imagine a place with all-you-can-eat ice cream, a pool full of sprinkles, edible balloons, and a chocolate fountain...sounds like something out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, doesn’t it? But for a while, this was no work of fiction, but a real place. Where, you ask, could you find all of these magical things? The Museum of Ice Cream. It popped up for a month in NYC this August, and tickets were—understandably—quickly sold out.  Sure, we all would have liked a chance to visit the Museum of Ice Cream, but nobody would have enjoyed it more than Ice Cream Man...

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Happy National Ice Cream Day!

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Happy National Ice Cream Day!

As if we needed another reason to eat delicious ice cream, it’s National Ice Cream Day! Whether you love classic vanilla and chocolate, or are into the more experimental flavor combos like Gin Spiced Blackberry Jam with Chocolate Chips today is the day to enjoy them all. Check out this fun video for Ice Cream Work.

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