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Video: OKGo and Sesame Street bring you primary colours
06 Feb 2012 Leave a comment
in Just Fun Stuff Tags: art
The Saturdays
03 Jan 2012 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+ Tags: art, city life, family, music, New York, siblings, single parent
by Elizabeth Enright
(first book in the Melendy Quartet series)
Henry Holt and Company, 1941
177 pp., 8 chapters
Age: 7+
Interests: family, siblings, art, music
Next: the other 3 Melendy books are The Four-Story Mistake, Then There Were Five, Spiderweb for Two: a Melendy Maze
Also by this author: Thimble Summer, Gone-Away Lake
Emily Gravett’s Drawing Lesson
02 Jan 2012 Leave a comment
in Drawing, Introduction to... Tags: art, dragons
A holiday treat from The Guardian: “How to Draw… Dragons” by Emily Gravett, the author/illustrator of Again!, Wolves, and Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears. Part of a terrific “How to Draw” series featuring famous children’s book illustrators.
(Thanks bundleofbooks for this link!)
Once a Mouse…
26 Dec 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+ Tags: animals, art, folktales, India, jungle, mice, philosophy
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1962
subtitle: A Fable Cut in Wood
by Marcia Brown
Simon & Schuster, 1961
30 pp.
Age: 4 +
Interests: mice, animals, folktales, India, magic, art, philosophy
Also by this author: Stone Soup, Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper
Anno’s Journey
11 Aug 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 6+ Tags: art, country life, history, puzzles, travel
by Mitsumasa Anno
originally published in Japan in 1977
New York: William Collins, 1978
42 pp.
Age: 6+
Interests: art, history, country life, travel, puzzles
Drummer Hoff
06 Jun 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 2+ Tags: art, poetry, war
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1968
Barbara Emberley, author
Ed Emberley, illustrator
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967
28 pp.
Age: 2+
Interests: art, poetry, history, war
Also by this illustrator: The Wing on a Flea, One Wide River to Cross, Ed Emberley’s Drawing Books
Yellow Submarine (1968)
02 May 2011 Leave a comment
in Movies, movies 5+ Tags: adventure, art, music, war
Rated: G
Length: 90 min.
Age: 5 and up. Commonsense Media sez: 7 +
Scary Factor: Blue Meanies and Ruler are threatening and freaky; machine guns carried by the baddies, but no one is shot; flying Glove is scary (mostly the sound of its laugh); one brief moment with Frankenstein monster is a little scary but he soon transforms into John
Also: general freakiness of visuals!
Bad Behavior: one exploding cigar smoked by an undersea monster; no booze, no drugs
Interests: rock music, the Beatles, psychedelia, art, fantasy
Next: Beatles music, movies: A Hard Day’s Night, Help!
Black and White
14 Apr 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 5+ Tags: art, cows, mystery, puzzles, trains
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1991
David Macaulay, author and illustrator
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990
30 pp
ages 5 +
Interests: picture puzzles, mysteries, trains, cows
By the same author: Cathedral: The Story of its Construction, City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction, The Way Things Work
Arrow to the Sun
11 Apr 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+ Tags: art, Aztec, folktales, gods, Mexico, myths, single parent
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1975
Gerald McDermott, author and illustrator
New York: Viking Press, 1974
36 pp
ages 4+ (for the story, though artwork will interest even younger children)
Interests: Aztec folklore, art, indigenous art, Mexico/Central America, myths
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