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News Round-Up September 6: Cookie Monster’s First Day of School, Carla Bruni’s Baby and Should You Get the Chicken Pox Vaccine Again?

What we’re reading today:

 

1. You will not get to see Carla Bruni’s baby.

2. Should you be getting your kid two doses of chicken pox vaccine? The Canadian Pediatric Society thinks so.

3. Have you seen Abe’s Peanut? It’s a kids’ magazine that keeps readers engaged by sending out postcards and coming up with some pretty creative storytelling.

4. Crazy hard to get in schools in New York are changing their admissions policies.

5. Kermit the Frog reports from the first day of school:

Photo by The Prime Minister’s Office via Flickr

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Chicken Pox Blog

Seven-year-old Tristan had a really nasty case of the chicken pox, so his parents, Gretel and Isaac, set him up with a blog of his own to give him something to think about, other than the itch.

The result is Chicken Pox Blog, Tristan’s elegantly written and photographed account of his 16 day battle with the pox, starting on the day he found out he was afflicted: