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February 16, 2010
Laissez les bons temps roulez.
Well, Blog, I did put together
a special list books for today…
You? A Hurricane? Well, maybe I
can fix a nonalcoholic Hurricane for you.
21 what? 21 days? 21 weeks? NO, Blog.
I've invited all of our favorite people, made a King Cake… but Blog, who will want to stay around for our Mardi Gras Book Festival if you won't behave? Eat your gumbo and please stop sulking.
Today's Reading Festival is all about JAZZ: The First Book of Jazz, by Langston Hughes; This Jazz Man, by Karen Ehrhardt and...
February 9, 2010
Courtship
The Courtship of Tub and Commode
© Deborah Freedman
Suggested Reading for Valentine's Day: The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It , by Carl Sandburg and Harriet Pincus; Henry in Love, by Peter McCarty; Bloom, by Maria van Lieshout.
Filed under: Random, Reading Suggestions
February 2, 2010
Have a Terrific Day
Well thank you, Blog, for sharing this with us today, on the birthday of Judith Viorst, author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
Read a bit about Judith Viorst, and some of her poems for children, at www.poets.org.
Illustration © Ray Cruz
Filed under: Birthday Soup, Reading Suggestions
January 26, 2010
Zero Gravity
Aristotle said, "Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
Aristotle said, "Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
Today's Suggested Reading: Bubble Trouble, by Margaret Mahy and Polly Dunbar; Princess Hyacinth, by...
January 19, 2010
Turn ON the Tube Week
You know I love books! But the winter is long, and some things are worth watching.
Jumpin' Jive! Listen to Cab Calloway and watch the truly amazing Nicholas Brothers (don't miss them from 1:32 to the end) in Stormy Weather, 1943.
GET UP AND DANCE!
Chattanooga Choo Choo, more Nicholas Brothers, and Dorothy Dandridge with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, in "Orchestra Wives", 1942
The Little Colonel, Bill Bojangles Robinson and Shirley Temple, 1935
Puttin' On The Ritz, Fred Astaire in "Blue Skies"...
January 12, 2010
If the world is round, would a lion fall off?
The World Is Round, by Gertrude Stein, pictures by Clement Hurd, first published in 1939. With "The World Is Not Flat", an...
January 5, 2010
That's my name. Don't wear it out.
Dear Reader,
You may be here because you googled the name 'Deborah Freedman'. I am sorry to say you have not found Deborah Freedman the New York painter, or Deborah Freedman, the interior designer from Palm Beach Gardens. This is not the site of Deborah Freedman, the Maine storyteller. Or the Deborah Freedman who married Eric Belt in 1993. Nor have you reached the financial advisor from New Jersey, the Managing Attorney of Law Center North Central, or the Research Associate of the Population...
December 29, 2009
You may attend a party where strange customs prevail.
Choose your own fortune for 2010.
And have a Happy New Year!
Debbie, and Blog
If you don't like these fortunes, try another.
Posted in Random
December 22, 2009
It's Dark Out
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
Text ©...
December 15, 2009
Time for Bed
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
