https://www.thduggie.com/thduggies_blog thoughts and family activities in an industrial suburb Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:35:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.7 https://www.thduggie.com/thduggies_blog/dots-in-books#comment-54197 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:36:06 +0000 http://www.morbidcornflakes.ch/thduggies_blog/?page_id=340#comment-54197 […] Another Dots in Books update: My first sale! I sold a copy of the mid-length version of my counting book for kids to the Kantonsbibliothek Baselland, where I will have to stop by one of these days to check on how it’s doing. Next step: write a bunch of libraries. […]

]]> https://www.thduggie.com/thduggies_blog/dots-in-books#comment-52057 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:03:29 +0000 http://www.morbidcornflakes.ch/thduggies_blog/?page_id=340#comment-52057 […] As usual, we start with the Dots in Books. I’m happy to announce two… drum roll… likes! But who are those guys who like my counting books for children? David is the founder of jAlbum, the (free) software I use for presenting my photos. It’s because I got to beta-test their Blurb API that I published the Dots in Books with Blurb. Todd, as you can see, has a vested interest in my product selling – he works for Blurb… I guess it’s about time I return the favor and go like jAlbum! […]

]]> https://www.thduggie.com/thduggies_blog/dots-in-books#comment-51373 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:40:52 +0000 http://www.morbidcornflakes.ch/thduggies_blog/?page_id=340#comment-51373 […] Joseph, besides being adept at turning pages in his counting book, also has (inadvertently) exposed a favorite parable on heaven and hell, that of the long spoons. Told as in this source, it reduces the inhabitants of both heaven and hell to an intelligence below that of a 15-month-old. Joseph knows he can get a long spoon into his mouth by simply not holding it at its handle end, but closer to the business end. The folks in the parable either starve or resort to elaborate cross-feeding schemes. […]

]]> https://www.thduggie.com/thduggies_blog/dots-in-books#comment-50625 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:43:23 +0000 http://www.morbidcornflakes.ch/thduggies_blog/?page_id=340#comment-50625 […] You may already know that I self-published a simple children’s counting book because of Joseph’s interest in the dot flashcards the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential sell as their math program. We’ve now received our copy, and here’s Joseph’s reaction to his new counting book. […]

]]> https://www.thduggie.com/thduggies_blog/dots-in-books#comment-49367 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:58:58 +0000 http://www.morbidcornflakes.ch/thduggies_blog/?page_id=340#comment-49367 Bits of Intelligence and How to Teach Your Baby Math programs, inspired by Josephâ€s joy in looking at those dots and in reading books with simply an object and its name, I have published a few books counting books for children at Blurb.  Visit my permanent Dots in Books page for further information! [...]]]> […] As a riff on the Institutes’ Bits of Intelligence and How to Teach Your Baby Math programs, inspired by Joseph’s joy in looking at those dots and in reading books with simply an object and its name, I have published a few books counting books for children at Blurb.  Visit my permanent Dots in Books page for further information! […]

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