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Best of 2019

January 3, 2020 by Travis Jonker

Top 10 Posts of 2019: #1

From December 23rd to January 3rd, I’m counting down the most popular 100 Scope Notes posts of 2019. The countdown ends today with . . . The Most Astonishingly Unconventional Children’s Books of 2019

December 18, 2019 by Travis Jonker

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