Miles & Smiles

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Collaborating with award-winning fantasy illustrator Charles Vess, Gaiman is releasing a gloriously rendered book of his poem, Instructions, later this month. But this animated short promo, narrated by Gaiman, is awesome in and of itself.
Neil Gaiman Delivers His Fairy-tale Instructions - Not scifi but still cool - io9

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Chez Polo

From the Winchester Library, we got a copy of Régis Faller’s Polo: The Runaway Book…and it is so great. Sequential art, graphic novel, or children’s book…it is genius.

And there is a lot more at Faller’s (French-language) blog, Chez Polo.

Including some games…joue avec polo! Ici!

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Learning With The PooYoos

On a whim, I decided to search through WiiWare to find a game that was more Miles’ speed (there’s only so much Mario Kart I can play with Miles watching, admittedly with rapt attention, and feel like even a vaguely good parent)…and I came upon Learning With the PooYoos (Episode 1).

The basics of the game seem to be helping kids (ages 3 - 6) learn to use the wii controller…but Miles was answering the questions and dancing (!) to the weirdly catchy songs within minutes. So, Miles digs it…and there’s finally more he can do on the wii than picking up and deleting miis or walking off ledges in Lego Star Wars.

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After a long morning being afraid of (then brave around) the taxidermied animals at Harvard’s Museum of Natural History, Miles and I trekked (I trekked, Miles was carried) to Harvard Square to get pizza. I had plans to get some standard greasy slice business due to Miles’ very picky habits (depending on mood, we’ve had trouble getting Miles to eat ice cream)…but Cambridge 1 was closer and my arms were tired.
Miles liked the high booths and the two TVs playing the same thing (the Vikings/Cowboys pregame show…Miles pointed to Howie Long, “There’s two of him!”)…and despite some initial trepidation about the tomato and the basil, helped me devour our half #1 (tomato, fontina, romano, garlic, basil)…topped off with a glass of root beer. On the ride home, Miles informed me: “My pizza was really good!”

So, I challenge Yelp’s “kid friendly: no” rating.