Holiday (non-Christmas)

A Monsterly Halloween

October 11, 2010
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A Monsterly Halloween

In honor of Halloween, check out  Mostly Monsterly by Tammi Sauer and illustratecd by Scott Magoon (Simon & Schuster, 2010).  Monster Bernadette is “mostly monsterly. She lurche, she growl, she cause mayhem of all kinds.”  Bernadette also has a soft side which gets her into big trouble when she goes to monster school. I met Tammy Sauer at the September 2010 Kansas SCBWI conference.  She gave a hilarious speech on about the life (and...

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Classics: For Easter try The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes

April 2, 2009
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Classics:  For Easter try The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes

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’t read the story, you probably didn’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.   ”The little...

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