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[CLOSED] Giveaway: Win a Scholastic MAYA & MIGUEL Bilingual Learning Prize Pack!

"¡Feliz cumpleaños!" In celebration of it's 10th anniversary, Scholastic Media'a award-winning TV series, MAYA & MIGUEL, just made it's way onto iTunes during the just-wrapped...

Preview: MARVEL’s 2015 STAR WARS Comics Relaunch… and more

Like many of the original STAR WARS generation, I grew up on the occasional STAR WARS Comic Book, then-published by MARVEL comics. Fast-forward about...

31 Days of Halloween: SOFIA THE FIRST: THE HALLOWEEN BALL (Book)

We just caught what I believe is the second Halloween episode of Disney Junior's SOFIA THE FIRST this past Friday, and if your little...

31 Days of Halloween: HAPPY HALLOWEEN, DANIEL TIGER! (Book)

Our love of DANIEL TIGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD has been well-documented here on THE ROCK FATHER, pre-dating my work with the PBS KIDS VIP (Very Involved...

31 Days of Halloween – DOC McSTUFFINS Boo to You! (Disney Press)

As a wise man (Ron Swanson/Nick Offerman) once said, "There is only Doc McStuffins." True, that as a parent, I view and cover the...

Pirate Day Preview: Celebrate with PENELOPE THE PURPLE PIRATE! #TalkLikeAPirateDay

This Friday, September 19th, is the Annual TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY, and for 2014 you can actually talk WITH a pirate. At 5:30pm...

Hands-On: Books and Apps Come Together with TOTALLY MONSTER & PRETEND AND PLAY…

Earlier this summer, Silver Dolphin Books and Skyreader Media teamed-up to launch a new series of Apps based on the popular TOTALLY MONSTER and...

Celebrate Summer Reading with PBS KIDS and Pottery Barn Kids (plus a Giveaway!)

Last month, while I was attending the PBS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, I, along with the rest of the PBS KIDS crew, took...

Happy… HELLBOY Day? Yes, #HellboyDay

Twenty years ago today, Dark Horse Comics released Mike Mignola's HELLBOY: SEED OF DESTRUCTION #1. The character, which first appeared in an eight-page story...

Three Months ‘Till Father’s Day: Will The Force Be With Your Special Dad?

It's hard to believe, but THE ROCK FATHER (as a website) will enter it's fourth year of operation on Father's Day 2014, and today...

Join Me for the #PBSKIDSWrite Twitter Party!

Here's a Rock Father fact that most people don't know: In 1987, while in Fifth Grade, I became an award-winning author... a "Young Author,"...

ROLLING STONES Guitarist KEITH RICHARDS to Release Children’s Book, GUS AND ME…

By definition, KEITH RICHARDS is, indeed, a "Rock Father," but the type of excess that THE ROLLING STONES' guitarist is known for doesn't exactly line...

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