Mark’s Fingers by Mary O’Neill I like my fingers, They grip a ball, Turn a page, Break a fall, Help whistle A call. Shake hands And shoot Rubber bands. When candy is offered They take enough. They fill my …
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nonfiction nuggets…a musical genius teaches music appreciation
Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts, by Leonard Bernstein, edited by Jack Gottlieb …there’s no limit to the different kinds of feelings music can make you have. Some of those feelings are so special they can’t even be described in …
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Books as explosive material
In 1963, Madeleine L’Engle received the Newbery Award for her book A Wrinkle in Time. I vividly remember reading that book, in 5th grade…that would have been about 8 years later…and being completely swept into that strange, terrifying, out-of-bounds world …
fiction favorites…D’Aulaires Book of Trolls
D’Aulaire’s Book of Trolls, by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire So the whole night the trolls had the mountains to themselves. They prowled about in the moonlight casting huge dark shadows, and the troll-children howled and screamed and fought over …
a list of…five books of wordless wonder
In today’s set of books, the pictures are the drawing card –no words or very few words are used –and they are very, very clever. Unusually so. Imagination-sparklers. You really have to see them to appreciate them…so check them out! …
poetry friday
My favorite season is here… Autumn by Emily Dickinson The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry’s cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, …
nonfiction nuggets…about the vast animal kingdom
Animal Life, by Richard Walker… one of DKs “one million things” encyclopedias Dorling Kindersley has taken their trademark fabulous photography and put together this eye-popping, fact-asaurus, amazing volume all about animals! It is a hefty book in a number of ways: a …
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And the winner is…
Today marks the end of the Orange Marmalade Book Give Away… …but before we get to the winner… …I want to say thank you to all who entered the drawing by giving me such great suggestions for the Monday List …
fiction favorites…By the Great Horn Spoon
By the Great Horn Spoon, by Sid Fleischman, illustrated by Eric von Schmidt A sailing ship with two great sidewheels went splashing out of Boston harbor on a voyage around the Horn to San Francisco. Below decks, in the creaking …
a list of…five creative spins on the seasons
Here in Minnesota we’ve definitely been moving from summer to fall the past few weeks, with chilly mornings, flocks of migrating birds, and scarlet creeping into the sumac. It seems like a good time of year to check out some …
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