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• In the Belly of an Ox

  
  Kids Lit — Authority: 129
  In the Belly of an Ox: the Unexpected Photographic Adventures of Richard and Cherry Kearton by Rebecca Bond Two brothers, Richard and Cherry Kearton, grew up in the hills of Yorkshire and spent much of their time outside exploring.  When they both moved to London, they missed the countryside, so they visited it ...
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• We Troubled the Waters

  
  Kids Lit — Authority: 129
  We Troubled the Waters by Ntozake Shange, illustrated by Rod Brown It takes a very special picture book to leave you with tears standing in your eyes.  This is that book. This book of poems takes readers from slavery through Jim Crow to the KKK and the battles of the Civil Rights Movement.  It is a visual and ...
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• Spotlight on Peter Yarrow

  
  Brimful Curiosities — Authority: 127
  Cold weather makes for stir crazy kids. Weve been listening to lots of music and Peter Yarrow has been on rotation in the CD player (yes, we have an iPod but downloading is a lot of work so for the kids music, we still use CDs). His folk music doesnt get them too riled up, and, better yet, theyre learning some of the ...
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• Poetry Thursday-Slash-Friday:If These Walls Could Speak . . .

  
  Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast — Authority: 521
  {Note: You can click on that spread to enlarge and see it in more detail; you’ll just have to wait a bit for the download.} On this Poetry Friday I highlight a book published by Creative Editions (hubba whoa, they make some beautiful books) in August of ‘09, written by J. Patrick Lewis and illustrated by ...
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• The Duck and the Kangaroo

  
  Kids Lit — Authority: 129
  The Duck and the Kangaroo by Edward Lear , illustrated by Jane Wattenberg Combine Lear’s classic poem with funky, modern collages and you get a winner of a picture book!  Duck is bored living in his pond.  He wishes that he could travel the world the way Kangaroo does so he asks Kangaroo to carry him on his ...
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• Im Number One

  
  Young Readers — Authority: 423
  Im Number One by Michael Rosen. Illustrated by Bob Graham. 2009. (December 2009). Candlewick Press. 32 pages. "Im A-One," said A-One. "Im BIG A-One. Let me tell you: A-One rules. A-One is number one... See the toy soldier? Hes one big (but silly) bully. He loves to boss the other toys around. He loves to make them ...
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• Read Aloud Thursday

  
  Hope Is the Word — Authority: 476
  As much as I love Christmas, I am glad to shelve all the Christmas titles for another year and get back to glorious randomness.    Although we do not live in a large city, we are blessed to have several libraries within a five mile radius of each other, and I am always pleasantly surprised when we deviate from ...
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• Picture Books – Rochelle Rochelle EP

  
  DoucheBagFace.com — Authority: 137
  Have been listening to these tracks now for this band from Chicago and I have to say I am really enjoying it. Picture Books has just released their new EP “Rochelle Rochelle”, which is available for free download via this link . It looks like they just played a post new year’s show with Kid You’ll Move ...
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• Finn Throws A Fit

  
  Young Readers — Authority: 423
  Finn Throws A Fit! By David Elliott. Illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering. 2009. Candlewick Press. Finn likes peaches. Usually . Brilliant from cover to cover. This one is perfect, just perfect. A true been-there-felt-that kind of book just right for parents (and all adults really whove ever been around young ...
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• A Quick Post in Appreciation of Dorothée de Monfreid

  
  Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast — Authority: 521
  “It was a wolf! Felix trembled as he watched the wolf build a great big fire and sit down in front of it. ‘Stay still,’ Felix told himself. And then, suddenly, he heard . . .” So, I certainly haven’t read all of French author/illustrator Dorothée de Monfreid’s titles. Far from it. I’ve only ever seen ...
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• The Katy Boo Encyclopaedic Review of Picture Books Part 3

  
  Katyboo1's Weblog — Authority: 132
  Judith Kerr Judith Kerr is the creator of one of my favourite picture books of all time, ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’.   I’ve loved it since I was a child and have yet to meet a child who doesn’t also love it. It is simple but very amusing and the slightly strange picture of the tiger playing some kind of ...
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• The Katy Boo Encyclopaedic Review of Picture Books Part 1

  
  Katyboo1's Weblog — Authority: 132
  An incredibly long time ago I did some posts on children’s literature recommendations for older children, and I promised that I would do a list for younger children.  I haven’t forgotten, it’s just that there are so many great picture books around I keep changing my mind. Anyway, I’ve decided just to start ...
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• Meet the Howlers Is On Its Way!

  
  April Pulley Sayre Children's Book Author — Authority: 123
  February marks the release of my new book, Meet the Howlers! (illustrated by Woody Miller, published by Charlesbridge).This nonfiction, rhyming read aloud looks at the life of a howler monkey from the perspective of a child who is a bit envious about the things wild howlers can get away with that a human child ...
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• Urban Picture Books: Urban Animals

  
  What Do We Do All Day? — Authority: 116
  Think city animals only exist in the park and zoo? Think again. Isabel Hills wonderful new book, Urban Animals takes you on a fantastical treasure hunt through New York Citys architecture for animals lurking in doorways, on flagpoles and cornices. Seahorses, dogs, bunnies, even donkeys are watching over the citys ...
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• The Everything Machine

  
  Kids Lit — Authority: 129
  The Everything Machine by Matt Novak On planet Quirk, they have an Everything Machine that does all of the work.  The machine cooks, cleans, gardens, paints, and even colors in the children’s coloring books and scratches people’s backs.  But one day, the machine stopped working.  There was no noise from its ...
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• Nonfiction Monday: The Extraordinary Mark Twain

  
  Young Readers — Authority: 423
  The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy). Barbara Kerley. 2010. (January 2010). Scholastic. Picture Book Biography/Picture Book Nonfiction). According to Susy, people were...well, just plain wrong about her papa. They thought they knew Mark Twain--after all, he was a world-famous author, quoted here, there, ...
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• Non-Fiction Monday: How Whales Walked Into the Sea

  
  In Need Of Chocolate — Authority: 502
  I saw How Whales Walked Into the Sea by Faith McNulty on the book at Charlie’s Playhouse , an excellent evolution and prehistory resource.  I knew my girls would love it so we picked it up at the library recently and read it yesterday during a long session of couch-snuggling and picture book reading.  We were ...
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• ‘Beer’, ‘cat’, ‘Hoover’ among the most unusual first words spoken by kids

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  London, Jan 4 (ANI): ‘Beer’, ‘cat’ and ‘Hoover’ are among the most unusual first words uttered by babies when they learn to speak, a new YouGov survey has revealed.The poll of 1,015 parents of tots aged one to seven, published by England’s first Communications Champion Jean Gross, also found that nearly ...
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• National Ambassador for Young Peoples Literature

  
  books4yourkids.com — Authority: 122
  I wrote this post back in early December and had planned to run it this week after my posts on 826 National and Mac Barnett. However, I caught on to a tribute organized by the folks over at A Year in Reading for toady and decided to jump on board. If you are a Scieszka fan, hope youll check out all the other posts ...
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• How to Spell "SCIESZKA"

  
  Book, Booker, Bookest — Authority: 92
  Whew, its taken months of laborious work (enough to keep me away from this blog and my family), but I think I finally figured out how to spell "Scieszka," as in Jon (or is it "John?"). Anyway, I came up with what has proven in early trials to be a promising mnemonic for spelling our outgoing Ambassadors name. ...
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