The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori & the Invention of the Piano, written by Elizabeth Rusch, illustrated by Marjorie Priceman published in 2017 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers Fascinating! The evolution of today’s piano from its ancestors the clavichord …
Tag: birthdays
there’s a summer place…five nostalgic pieces of summer
Memorial Day is the gateway to summer. My childhood memories are of the lovely idleness of summertime — of freedom to play unhindered; to wear any old thing and spend the day out of doors, returning home grass-stained, mosquito-bitten, grimy, …
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five candles on the cake!…five to celebrate Orange Marmalade’s fifth birthday
Five years ago I started tentatively blogging about children’s literature, and what a treat this has turned out to be for me! Besides the gluttonous amount of children’s literature I’ve devoured in that time, I’ve also learned a great deal …
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five books…wishing you a happy birthday!
It’s Orange Marmalade’s One-Year Birthday, so I’m celebrating with a list of books about that Very Favorite Subject…birthdays. There are gobs and slews of picture books about birthdays out there, birthdays being so magnificently exciting, but here are five that are …
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