Grab your oatmeal and orange juice. Flip some flapjacks. Spread some peanut butter on that toast. And while you’re munching, go bananas with these silly breakfast stories! Monkey with a Tool Belt and the Maniac Muffins, written and illustrated by …
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cool reads for warm days… ten oustanding new picture books
This summer, again, I’m planning to create lists all-a-jumble with goodies from this year’s crop of picture books. Each one holds powerful seeds of ideas, wonder, imagination, creativity to germinate in our minds and hearts. I’m getting a head start …
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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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poetry friday
Finishing off a delicious week with the classic pancake poem… Mix a Pancake by Christina Rossetti Mix a pancake, Stir a pancake, Pop it in the pan; Fry the pancake, Toss the pancake — Catch it if you can. …
fiction favorites…Pancakes — Paris
Since we’re on a breakfast theme this week, I’ve got this vintage, full-of-pancakes, Newbery-Honor novel for you: Pancakes — Paris, by Claire Huchet Bishop, illustrated by Georges Schrieber He had just rounded the corner when he heard big footsteps behind …
pass the syrup, please!…five yummy books sizzling with breakfast goodies
A hearty breakfast on a cold, wintery morning…what could be better?! Crisp waffles with maple syrup…oatmeal decked out with cranberries and coconut… a cheery poached egg à la Francis! Oh my, I’m making myself hungry! Time to dive into five delicious …
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