📚+🥔 JAMIE O’ROURKE AND THE BIG POTATO -AN IRISH FOLKTALE -Tomie dePaola
☕️☕️☕️☕️4.0 #KristiCocoas 📚This is one from my youth that I still remember thinking “but he never learned his lesson!” and I still think that but almost love the story more for that! Lots of good character analysis even for your shorties to do in this one! 🥔Activity Ideas: •Online Read-aloud version to listen to during your St. Patrick’s party or while doing one of the activities below! https://youtu.be/g4eJxJ5v3rk •How long could you survive on potato? Look up how many different dishes can be made with potato and try making a new one! •If you caught a leprechaun, what would you want with your pot of gold? Make a large batch of some mashed potatoes (bonus: dye them green for fun!) and sculpt what you’d spend your gold on! •Leprechaun traps! Look online for ideas! *Yours truly was able to visit Dublin and, as a self proclaimed author, I have to brag that I saw the Book of Kells at Trinity College! #kidlit #recommendedreading #PB
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📚CARNIVORES -Aaron Reynolds, illus Dan Santat
☕️☕️☕️☕️4.5 #KristiCocoas With the cover alone, how could you not pick this up? Laugh out loud moments with some good teaching that gets right to the meat of it as well. One of my fav favs! #kidlit #recommendedreading #PB Here is the batch of books I've posted about during that last month for quick and easy access!
SHY -Deborah Freedman
☕️☕️☕️ 3.5 #KristiCocoas Beautiful illustrations with a clever use of the gutter (page set-up) and a fun idea if not a bit wordy. #kidlit #picturebooks #recommendations 📚THIS IS A MOOSE -Richard T. Morris, illust Tom Lichtenheld
☕️☕️☕️☕️4.5 #KristiCocoas Must be read in a movie trailer voice. So funny with really well done illustrations and a fabulous cast. Worth the read! #kidlit #PB #humor DANCING DOTTIE By Kristi Newsome (50 words) Little miss Dottie would always dance. Ask her to stop? Not even a chance. One day Mom cried “I’m taking a stance!” And accompanied her out to France. The ballet teacher, after a glance, Said that the problem wasn’t her prance. But, in fact, she had ants in her pants. Vivian Kirkfield (author of FROM HERE TO THERE: INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WAY THE WORLD MOVES; her site here) is hosting the #50PreciousWords competition and I loved the idea of the challenge to synthesize a beginning, middle, and end into a short 50 words -so this is my submission! It was so much fun writing this out! |
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