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A double celebration for early literacy: yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat and today marks the birthday of the good doctor himself (Dr. Seuss was born on March 2, 1904).

In honor of these milestones, many bloggers have children’s books on their minds and in their posts. The Washington Post commemorates Dr. Seuss and asks parents to name their favorite kid’s books. The comments that ensue are a great resource for parents searching for quality children’s books and perennial favorites;

Two contests: The DeBroff DeBrief talks about the Messmaker Contest sponsored by the new cleaning product Blink. Send Blink a photo of your little ones making a mess in your car and you could win anything from a $5,000 digital photo prize package (first prize winner) to a supply of Blink products (runners up); Kevin Bacon’s Six Degrees organization, in conjunction with Network for Good, will give a matching grant of $10,000 to the six non-profits with the highest number of unique donors before March 31st. The Family Pride Coalition has taken on the challenge and is a contender for first place in the competition. Learn more about the contest at Mombian; and

Parent Hacks has discovered a new website which serves as a database of instruction manuals for children’s toys and games - they’ve collected the manuals so that you don’t have to! Toyinstructions is set up as a collaborative wiki, which means that you can contribute useful content and links and help build the collaborative repository.

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