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May 8, 2015
Two Contests
Your Choice Contest From May 8th to May 31, I will be running a contest on��this blog. Make a comment on any posting from May 8-31 and you will be automatically entered into the prize draw. Every comment earns an entry but you can only post ONCE PER DAY. What do you win? Your choice […]
Durant, Sybrina. Yarashell Abbily and Her Very Messy Room. Illustrated by Sara Wilson. Book Review.
Three year old Yarashell likes to take all her clothes out of the closet and drawers and throw them around the room. Her mother, of course, wants her to clean up but Yarashell likes her room messy. Rather than resorting to threats of punishment, Mom and Dad devise a game to encourage Yarashell to cleanup. […]
May 7, 2015
Be Not Say
No one watches us as closely as our children.
May 6, 2015
May 4, 2015
Jocelyn, Marthe and Nell Jocelyn. Where Do You Look? Book Review.
This picture book examines multiple meanings of common words. It begins, “Where do you look for a cap? On a tube of toothpaste? Or on your head?” The accompanying illustrations are bright and simple. They appear to be cut-and-paste collage. Words examined are cap, button, tongue, glasses, match, wave, trunk, letter, and story. (Story is […]
May 3, 2015
I Love A Positive Message By Sybrina Duranton – May 4, 2015
Five stars for Rumpelstiltskin’s Child This book portrays the part of the fairy tale that many may wish had been written a long time ago. It paints the impish little man in a much more positive light than he was characterized in the short story written by the Brothers Grimm. Thankfully, in this new improved […]
Rest
I love the way a well written book can make the reader forget the stresses and worries of everyday life. It’s as good as a holiday.
May 2, 2015
Caterpillars
and to the world as well.
May 1, 2015
C��t��, Genevi��ve. Mr. King’s Castle. Book Review.
Mr. King, a cat, decides he’s going to make his little house into a big castle. He takes a pair of scissors and cut blocks out of the landscape. By the time has finished building his castle, the environment is completely destroyed. When he learns how negatively this has impacted his friends, he returns everything […]
