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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 Penderwicks On Gardam Street (Random House, 2008). Author Jeanne Birdsall has created a charming family of four sisters:  responsible oldest sister Rosalind; feisty tomboy Skye; creative and romantic Jane (the writer of the family); and shy animal-loving Batty.  Together with their kindly, albeit sometimes absent-minded father, these four sisters have all kinds of misadventures.  In the first Penderwick book, the family has gone on vacation to a summer cottage called Arundel.  There they make a charming new friend&#8211;Jeffrey.  But Jeffrey has a stuffy, bossy mother, &#8220;snooty Mrs. Tipton,&#8221; and she&#8217;s dating an even more horrid, snooty man who just might become Jeffrey&#8217;s step-father.  To make matters worse, Mrs. Tipton has her heart set on Jeffrey attending a military academy and becoming a general just like her dear papa, even though Jeffrey has tried to tell her how much he hates the idea.  How will the Penderwick sisters save [...]]]></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>
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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 since.  The edition to the left was illustrated by Paul Galdone (Clarion, 1987).   Jan Brett also illustrated a Caribbean-style version in 1989 (Philomel). The Owl and the Pussy-cat  is charming and silly, lilting and eminently memorizable.  When I was a girl, my mother recited this poem and had us children memorize it (the other great nonsense poem we learned being &#8220;The Purple Cow&#8221; by Gelett Burgess).  I believe all of my six siblings can still recite &#8221;The Owl and the Pussycat&#8221; to this day (and shame on them if they can&#8217;t).  After the owl and the pussy-cat sailed away in &#8220;a beautiful pea-green boat,&#8221; Owl serenaded his lovely Puss by the light of the stars.  Being a liberated female, Pussy said to the Owl &#8220;You elegant fowl! How charmingly sweet you sing! O let us be married! too long we have tarried: But what shall we do for a ring?&#8221; Not to worry.   After [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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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 bunny.  But all the fancy white bunnies and big Jack-rabbits with their long legs laughed at her.   &#8221;The little girl Cottontail grew up to be a young lady Cottontail.  And by and by she had a husband and then one day, much to her surprise there were twenty-one Cottontail babies to take care of.&#8221;  And all the fancy white rabbits and big Jack-rabbits laugh at her again and say, &#8220;Only a country rabbit would go and have all those babies.  Now take care of them and leave Easter eggs to great big men bunnies like us.&#8221;  I kid you not.  That is a direct quote from the book. Well, those baby bunnies grew and their Cottontail mama taught two of them to sweep, two to make beds, two to cook, two to wash dishes, two to wash linens, two to sew and mend, two to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classics:  Mother Goose</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Smoore</dc:creator>
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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 them either. Then I got the Mother Goose edition selected and illustrated by Mary Engelbreit (HarperCollins, 2005 with an introduction by the esteemed children&#8217;s literature historian Leonard S. Marcus).  And my attitude changed.  It&#8217;s just about impossible to resist the charms of Mary Engelbreit&#8217;s illustrations. Mother Goose became my daughter&#8217;s favorite book.  And page fifty contains her favorite rhyme: Ickle ockle, blue bockle, Fishes in the sea, If you want a pretty maid, Please choose me.  And why was this her favorite rhyme?  Because of its illustration:  a charming, little mermaid awash in a cascade of sunken treasure jewelry.  &#8220;Oh, to be a mermaid!&#8221;  My favorite illustration was Jack Spratt and his wife, but every night my daughter turned to page fifty before any other.  So if you have a nursery rhyme resistant child, try Mary Engelbreit&#8217;s Mother Goose.   It just might convert them.]]></description>
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		<title>Classics:  Ferdinand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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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 on a bee and gets stung, Ferdinand gets picked to fight in the bullfight in Madrid.  Will Ferdinand fight? Ferdinand is a charmer&#8211;from his hulking adult body rippling with muscles to his scared little face peeking around the doorway of the bull ring to his beatific bovine body plopped down in the center of the bullring completely content to just sit and smell the flowers from all the lovely ladies.  (The picture of the lovely ladies with flowers in their hair was always my favorite when I was a girl.)  It&#8217;s interesting to consider that this book was written when Hitler was butting and sticking his horns around plenty.  At the time of its publication, The Story of Ferdinand was banned in Spain and burned as propoganda by Nazi Germany.   But the world would be a better place if people were more like Ferdinand and his mother.  Ferdinand doesn&#8217;t fall for the [...]]]></description>
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