This is just to say we have selected the winners in our Melissa Sweet Book Giveaway!
After riding around in a red wheelbarrow and consuming an inordinate number of juicy plums, Cornelius got right down to work.
may days
happy children’s book week!
Check out the official Children’s Book Week website for ideas about how to celebrate. There are suggestions for kids, parents, teachers, librarians, and publishers. The winners of the Children’s Choice Book Awards will be announced on Wednesday, May 13th. It’ll be interesting to see how children and teens across the country voted.
The above poster is available free (plus postage), and you can also download free bookmarks, like the one below. The entire downloadable toolkit is here.
Elaine Magliaro at Wild Rose Reader has compiled yet another fabulous resource list that’s perfect for this week. Love how she’s included all the major award winners from 2008. It’s great having all this information in one place — so if you’re looking not only for activity suggestions, but for ideas about which titles to select, check in with Elaine!
Have fun and happy reading!
"A great nation is a reading nation." ~ Frederic Melcher
happy mother’s day!
"If I had a flower for each time I thought of My Mother, I could walk in my garden forever." ~ Anonymous
photo by 3littlemiracles
HOPE YOUR DAY IS DELICIOUS AND DELIGHTFUL!!
friday feast: knock your socks off
No socks greeting by Carrie Peters.
Okay, let me see your feet. Are you wearing socks?
If so, take them off immediately! Today is No Socks Day!
That’s right — a special day set aside to help the environment by doing a little less sock laundry. Happy toes, here I come!
Nope nope nope. You won’t find any socks here today. Not a one.
petals of wisdom
Art by my niece, Julia, who is now 9.
"Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the flowers, and the mystery of life." ~ R. Search
"It is at the edge of a petal that love waits." ~ William Carlos Williams
"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." ~ Claude Monet
"In the hope of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet." ~ Albert Schweitzer
by my nephew, Jared, when he was 8
Have a lovely, fragrant day!!
Jama's Alphabet Soup 