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Free kids books at the Baldwin Project
It's like the Gutenberg
project for kids' books. The Baldwin Online Children's
Literature Project is the full title of a project whose mission states, "The Baldwin Project seeks to make
available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Our focus, initially, is
on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States." The site is the brainchild of Lisa
Ripperton, a home schooling mom with a background in the classics and software development. Her husband is also a
software person, and they share a love of books.So the Baldwin project is the digitization of children's books (initially) that are in the public domain. There are hundreds of books available so far, complete with pictures, tables of contents, etc. There are all free, and some aren't even in print anymore. According to Lisa you can print these, provided you aren't going to use them commercially. To next time a kid asks you to read them a story, no excuses, just print out a book.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
