The Tale of Despereaux
released: 2008
rated: G
length: 93 min.
age: 6+
interests: mice, rats, castles, princesses, cooking, updated fairy tales, adventure
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The Tale of Despereaux (2008)
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in Movies, movies 6+ Tags: adventure, castle, cooking, fairy tale updated, knights, mice, Princess, rats
The Tale of Despereaux
20 Nov 2013 3 Comments
in Books, books 7+ Tags: castle, cooking, fairy tale updated, mice, Princess, rats
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
by Kate diCamillo
Age: 7+
Interests: mice, castles, princesses, rats, soup, cooking
The Funny Little Woman
19 Jun 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 3+ Tags: cave, cooking, folktales, Japan, Magic
CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER – 1973
Arlene Mosel, author
Blair Lent, illustrator
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1972
36 pp.
Age: 3+
Interests: folktales, Japan, cooking, magic, caves
Pumpkin Soup
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in Books, books 3+ Tags: animals, cooking
GREENAWAY MEDAL WINNER – 1998
Helen Cooper
New York: Doubleday, 1998
29 pp
Age: 3 +
Interests: animals, cooking
The Little Bear Movie (2001)
19 Mar 2011 Leave a comment
in Movies, movies 2+ Tags: animals, bears, camping, cooking, nature
Rated: G
Length: 75 min.
Age: 2 and up.
Scary Factor: a mountain lion slinks around but is quickly chased off; flashback to Cub getting separated from his parents during a storm, which isn’t altogether scary simply because it is a flashback; mountain lion returns at end, menaces Goose and Little Bear, then is scared off
Interests: animals, nature
Next: Little Bear TV series
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Never Take a Pig to Lunch: And Other Poems About the Fun of Eating
18 Mar 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 4+ Tags: cooking, food, mealtime, poetry
Nadine Bernard Westcott, ed. and illustrator
New York: Orchard Books, 1994
63 pp., 56 poems
age 4 and up
Interests: food, poetry, eating, gross stuff
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