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What a Party!

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What a Party! By Ana Maria Machado • Illustrated by Hélène Moreau Translated by Elisa Amado Groundwood Books • 2013 • 32 pages Hardcover ($18.95) ISBN 978-1-55498-168-7 Ages 4-7 Planning your birthday party may become a great…
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Latino Students Surpass Whites In Texas Schools

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Latino children in Texas are now the largest ethnic group in the Lone Star state, The Dallas Morning News is reporting. The newspaper said that Hispanic kids in Texas have passed whites—over half of the students enrolling in the school…
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Kids With Food Allergies? Try These Tasty Substitutes!

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It seems like every other kid out there has food allergies; and with new food products popping up in the grocery store every week, the questions about food allergies continue to grow. Between 1997 and 2007 the food-allergy rate rose 18%! So…

Deaf Girl Hears for the First Time

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After being abandoned at only eight-months old, five-year-old Jayde Scholl spent her first four years in Chinese orphanage. Luckily, she was adopted by a loving Tulsa family and her new mom just happened to be an audiologist who quickly realized…
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Sea Monkeys: Great Starter Pets for Kids!

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Who didn’t have Sea Monkeys as a child? That’s exactly what I knew them as, even as a child in Argentina, where the Spanish translation would have been monos marinos. They are tiny tadpole-like creatures. Slightly hairy with a long thin…
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What Are You Doing?

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What Are You Doing? By Elisa Amado • Illustrated by Manuel Monroy Groundwood Books • 2011 • 32 pages Hardcover ($16.95) ISBN: 978-1-55498-070-3 Ages 3-7 Not very eager to go on his first day of school, Chepito runs out of the house…
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Let’s Celebrate Children’s Book Week! Kids Choose Their Favorites

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Most parents are aware of Nickelodeon’s Kid’s Choice Awards, which this year took place just this past March. The awards’ main appeal—aside from the star-studded show that announces the winners—is the fact that kids themselves get…

Make a Fab Nyan Cat Cake and be the Coolest Mom!

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Your kids and their friends will think you are the coolest mom in the world if you bake this adorable Nyan Cat cake for their next party. Rosanna Pansino makes it look like a breeze with this quick and easy vid. For more fantastic MamiTV videos…
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Spring Salad with Pears, Candied Walnuts & Gorgonzola

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Editor's Note: Congratulations to Mamiverse Food Contributor Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack for receiving the Cosmopolitan for Latinas Blogger Award! One of the issues that concerns me the most is the health of children. As a mother and a cookbook…