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Singing in the Soup

Alphabet Soup Children's Books is hosting the local band, Harmonica Pocket, this Sunday April 11th at 11:30am as they celebrate Dr. Seuss with their special show, "Get Loose With Seuss!" Dr. Seuss would have turned 106 years old on March 2nd --  and local band Harmonica Pocket has put together a concert of original music set to Dr. Seuss books: Come down to the Soup and sing along to Dr. Seuss's ABCs, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, and other selected books. The band will…

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Cook the Books!

No, we're not suggesting some sort of accounting scheme. The 5th annual Edible Book Festival is coming to Wallingford Saturday, April 10th.  We're writing about it now cuz you still have time to enter your own book-themed work of art.  And if you'd just like to show up and nosh, that's ok too. What? People bring a piece of edible art related to books: a pun on a title, an interpretation of a scene or character, or just something having to do with…

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Alphabet Monkey Soup…Mmm Mmm good

Alphabet Soup Children's Books hosted the rock'n local kid's band, Recess Monkey, last Saturday March 6th. The news about the concert must have spread far and wide because this sweet little children's bookstore was jam packed when we arrived a few minutes prior to set time. I stood outside with about twenty other parents, bopping my head and tapping my feet to the boisterous rhythm as the band started off with Moon Boots, from their most recent album, The Final Funktier. My…

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Wallymom – There’s a Monkey in my Soup!

Some of the basic staples of our family outing calendar are going to local book stores and hitting up live music shows. So guess how excited we were to hear that we can do both at once this Saturday at Alphabet Soup Books! This fabulous local children's bookstore is featuring a free live concert with Recess Monkey at 10am Saturday March 6th. The band will be performing all your favorites from the new Field Trip album plus all-time Monkey classics. The S0up will open early on…

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Poetry refresh needed (free bag of coffee!)

Back in July, you may remember that we blogged about how much we liked the fact that Open Books: A Poetry Emporium (2414 N. 45th St.) always has a poem in their window, tucked into an old manual typewriter as if freshly thought. Well, walking by the other day, we were disappoined to note that here in late September, it's still the same poem. What gives, Open Books? Are you having trouble finding another poem you think Wallingford would enjoy? Well,…

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