Deborah Freedman's Blog
December 22, 2009
It's dark out
By Mary Ann Hoberman
Norman Hoberman
Hello and Good-bye, Little, Brown & Co., 1959
"From trickling trills to tongue twisters, Children's Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman reads from The Llama Who Had No Pajama." Watch and listen here.
Reprinted with permission from the author and illustrator
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December 15, 2009
It sifts from Leaden Sieves —
It powders all the Wood.
It fills with Alabaster Wool
The Wrinkles of the Road —
read the rest here
- Emily Dickinson
Happy Hibernation and Holidays to all!
Today's suggestion: A Seasonal Read-Aloud List, from "Write Up Our Alley".
And more Emily Dickinson.
illustration © Deborah Freedman
Posted in Inspiration Tagged: Dickinson, winter
December 8, 2009
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ONCE UPON A TIME, in a kingdom by the sea, there lived a little Princess named Lenore. She was ten years old, going on eleven. One day Lenore fell ill of a surfeit of raspberry tarts and took to her
…[and the princess said:] "I want the moon. If I can have the moon, I will be well
From Many Moons, written by James Thurber and illustrated by Louis Slobodkin.
Today is the birthday of James Thurber, 1894 – 1961.
Stop me if you've seen this before:
And now, if you too would like to...
December 1, 2009
…from the order
in which they are posted?
This is #2 of 3 posts, "Madam I'm Adam". See all three here.
© Deborah Freedman
Suggested reading:
Mom and Dad are Palindromes by Mark Shulman and Adam McCauley
Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagana Hog!, Palindromania!, Sit on a Potato Pan, Otis!, by James Agee
Posted in This Blog Tagged: Glosp, wordplay
November 24, 2009
WE? Why aren't WE posting? Since when do you do anything around here, Blog?
I have 20 people coming over in two days. I have COOKING to do! I have to make stuffing! and pies! and… well, honestly, Blog, I don't have time for you today. Just this once, couldn't you help out a little bit?
Well, THANK YOU for all of that, Blog.
THE RECIPE: SWEET POTATO PECAN PIE
Pie Dough:
Paul Prudhomme's.
Sweet Potato Filling:
2 to 3 sweet...
November 17, 2009
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the kings horses
and all the kings men
Couldn't put Humpty
together again.
"It's VERY provoking," Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking away from Alice as he spoke, "to be called an egg – VERY!"
Through The Looking Glass, Chapter VI: Humpty Dumpty
Illustration © Deborah Freedman
Posted in Inspiration Tagged: mother goose, reading suggestions
November 10, 2009
a proper haiku
might speak with pith and some wit
of shriveling days
but all I offer -
seasonal melancholy
and these few dead leaves
© Deborah Freedman
Reviews of children's collections of haiku, from Wild Rose Reader. "Haiku Happens", thoughts on writing and teaching haiku to children, at Jill Corcoran Books.
Posted in Random Tagged: poetry
November 3, 2009
Well I was, Blog, but I need a break…
am sort of stuck. But as long
Huh?
Oh. Wow.
BLOG.*
[*Help? Where is Tim Gunn when I need him?]
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