Word: toddlers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Target and Kirk, however, are trying to take a reasonably successful franchise to a whole new level. Children's-merchandise aisles are dominated by characters from television and movies. It's rare that a character known through books alone can win the instant toddler recognition that drives many kids' purchases. And while Kirk's books have been big sellers, he has not had the runaway success of Ian Falconer's spunky little pig Olivia or President Bush's personal favorite, Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Still, neither Falconer's nor Carle's works are being spun into anything...
...Separated from his wife, who went to work, and oldest son, who went to school, the first book tells of Rehr's escape from lower Manhattan. In a typically dramatic moment Rehr must wait inside the lobby of his building with his asthmatic toddler while the space fills with dust from the collapsed buildings. Eventually reconnecting with the rest of his family, part two covers their homeless life in the months after the disaster, a 9/11 story rarely heard about. Rehr tells of bouncing from one temporary living arrangement to another while struggling to find out information on the state...
...gotta love Halloween at Harvard. I mean, it’s the only excuse for the otherwise tame female population to get dressed up like hos. Whereas Halloween used to be about kids disguising themselves as Batman and Wonder Boy to excite the toddler that lives across the street, now it’s about chicks disguising themselves as Naughty Nurse and Catholic School Girl to excite the toddler that lives in my pants. It’s the only annual slut-tacular celebration of skank not confined to the Owl Club...
...featured a three-and-a-half-year- old boy running onto the field when he shouldn’t have. Yes, the games were often exciting, but the most indelible image of this year’s playoffs was of Giants’ Manager Dusty Baker’s toddler. Not quite Carlton Fisk or Bill Mazeroski...
...named Dalai and Elvis (which kids chase around), along with cats, tarantulas, fish and birds. Boys play poker in the store's Haunted Shack, which sits atop a Plexiglas surface that exposes a gray rat colony below. Saturday afternoons feature offbeat activities like sheep shearing. Customer Carrie Watson's toddler Isabel loves the Monday story readings and the animals. "I would much rather visit an independent than a large store anyway," says Watson...