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Review Date: 3/4/2006
A Quiz to test your wits on every day of the year!
Review Date: 6/8/2006
Great illustrations!
Review Date: 5/29/2006
Great book!
Review Date: 6/8/2006
No words.. pictures say it all! Great book!
Review Date: 6/8/2006
Mother Tilda realizes her young rooster, Cackle, needs a wife. Since this "oh-so-very poor" woman can't afford to buy him one, she sends Cackle a-courting. Not knowing what a wife should look like, he brings home a string of unsuitable mates, including a red-haired girl with a Mohawk haircut, a pig, a goose, a crow and a parrot. Finally, Cackle meets up with a fox, who--hopeful that the rooster and his future wife will thrive together and become pleasingly plump--leads him to a barn filled with cooped-up hens who happily follow Cackle home. Now Mother Tilda has a yard full of fresh eggs to sell, making her "not oh-so-very poor anymore." Translated from the Swedish, Lind's rambling tale has a rhythmic, ear-pleasing repetitiveness. This, as well as the text's considerable length and small type size, make the book most suitable for reading aloud. But young listeners will need no help spotting the many rib-tickling happenings in Rudebjer's busy pictures, including the exploits of a family of diminutive hedgehogs. Ages 4-8.
Review Date: 6/8/2006
This is a board book
Review Date: 4/25/2006
Listen as Stuart and Jill Briscoe read from The Book Of Family Values. You'll hear selections that illustrate personal, spiritual and relational values from old time favorites and from great heros of faith.
Review Date: 5/17/2006
Cute board book!
Review Date: 6/8/2006
Helpful Score: 1
Newbery Honor author Farmer (The Ear, the Eye and the Arm) here spins a medieval setting and a folktale-like aura into a winsome yarn. For years, the Runnerys' business has run like clockwork: Mrs. Runnery stores the farmers' grain in her stone granary, and Mr. Runnery's mill grinds it into flour. The family is puzzled when grain begins disappearing from the granary, and grows utterly perplexed when neither spiders nor cats can chase the mysterious intruders away. Toasting her toes by the fire, all-knowing Granny pinpoints the troublemakers as gnomes and offers a solution in frolicsome rhyme: "Get hiccups and honey and hair./ Get money and marbles and meat./ Go out to the woods in the moonlight./ And glue the whole mess to a sheet." Echoing the story's loose period setting and timeless good humor, Smith's (Matthew's Dragon) illustrations dovetail neatly with Farmer's text as both demonstrate how Granny's "gnome paper" captures the culprits. Rendered in watercolors and pencils, the full-page art portrays the Runnerys as a most ingratiating clan. And Smith's depiction of the greedy gnomes is just right: they're a wee bit scary, but not too much. Ages 5-up.
Review Date: 6/10/2006
A beautiful children's picture book.. Full of nursery rhymes!
Review Date: 5/17/2006
A really cute board book! Brightly colored illustrations!
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