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	<title>Great Books for Children &#187; Classics</title>
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		<title>A Modern Little Women:  The Penderwicks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you were young, did you love reading Little Women?  Ever long to be on Prince Edward Island with Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables?  Then you will love the Penderwick family. There are two Penderwick books  (and my daughter adores them both):  The Penderwicks:  A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (Knopf, 2005) and The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classics: The Owl and the Pussy-cat (In Honor of Marian)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 04:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post is in honor of my mother Marian, one of the wisest&#8211;and kindest&#8211;women I have ever known.) The Owl and the Pussy-cat is a famous nonsense poem written by the English poet, author, and illustrator Edward Lear.  A contemporary of Lewis Carroll, Lear first published the poem in 1871, and it has been illustrated and re-illustrated ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classics:  For Easter try The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes by DuBose Heyward and illustrated by Marjorie Flack tells the story of the five Easter bunnies.  Yes, five.  If you haven&#8217;t read the story, you probably didn&#8217;t know there were five. At any rate, a little country girl bunny decided that she wanted to grow up to be an Easter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classics:  Mother Goose</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, what can you say about Mother Goose?  My mother adored Mother Goose and read it to us often.  But frankly, as a parent I never really got into it.  I know the historic and literary relevance of nursery rhymes, but they just didn&#8217;t do much for me.  My kids never seemed much interested in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classics:  Ferdinand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some children&#8217;s books are classics.  Take Munro Leaf&#8217;s The Story of Ferdinand (Robert Lawson, illustrator).  Originally published in 1936 by Viking, Ferdinand tells the story of a gentle, little bull who doesn&#8217;t want to butt and stick his horns around.  Ferdinand wants to &#8220;sit just quietly under the cork tree and smell the flowers.&#8221;  But when Ferdinand sits [...]]]></description>
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