Deborah Freedman's Blog, page 22
December 8, 2009
I Want the Moon Too!
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
I'
…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
Giving Thanks
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
How to Fry an Egg
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
November Offering
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
Make It Work?
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?]
Disclosure: I was not paid to endorse this Nutella, or any other Nutella that you may see here in the future. I purchased this jar from my local, independent grocer, and the need for Nutella expressed on this blog is my own.
Posted in This Blog...October 27, 2009
A Resourceful Woman
Peter Peter, pumpkin eater, had a wife but couldn't keep her.
Until she finally used her head, and turned it into PUMPKIN BREAD.
THE RECIPE:Preheat oven to 350º....
October 20, 2009
Imagine if…
"The dummy of Harold and the Purple Crayon came this morning, and I've just read it. I don't know what to say about it. It doesn't seem to be a good children's book to me but I'm often wrong –
From a letter to Crockett Johnson, November 22, 1954, from his editor, Ursula Nordstrom. Read the rest in Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom, collected and edited by Leonard Marcus, Harpercollins, 1998.
Today is Crockett Johnson's birthday. 1906 – 1975.
illustration © Deborah Freedman
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