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Swoop for Today

Onward and upward in Me, All Alone, at the End of the World by M.T. Anderson and Kevin Hawkes.

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May 12 2012

Filed Under:  Adventure    Executive Decisions of Our Time    Quiet Please    School  

Fish Flying Up

Gravity is nothing in Hey Willy, See the Pyramids by Maira Kalman.

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May 05 2012

Filed Under:  Art    Language    Sleep  

What Roots That Clutch, What Branches Grow

Boiling over in Mean Soup by Betsy Everitt.

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Apr 30 2012

Filed Under:  Food    Parents    School  

Big Top Dreaming

Rash acts and final chances in Cannonball Simp by John Burningham.

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Apr 22 2012

Filed Under:  Adventure    Animals    Jobs    Misfits & Renegades    Town & Country  

The Horror

Some Things Are Scary (No Matter How Old You Are) by Florence Parry Heide and Jules Feiffer.

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Apr 12 2012

Filed Under:  Growing    Scary  

Filthy With Things

William Steig and the magic of junk.

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Apr 06 2012

Filed Under:  Growing    School    Treasures  

The New New

Paris is sunshine, Paris is raindrops, Paris is wonderful.

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Mar 27 2012

Filed Under:  Executive Decisions of Our Time    Libraries    Town & Country    Travel  

Slow Jam

The joy of practice in Mole Music by David McPhail.

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Mar 18 2012

Filed Under:  Animals    Hobbies    Music  

Mud Luscious

And Then It’s Spring by Julie Fogliano and Erin Stead.

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The Unredeemed

Hucksters and flotsam in Three by the Sea by Mini Grey.

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Mar 05 2012

Filed Under:  Animals    Friends & Neighbors    Misfits & Renegades  

Welcome to the Dollhouse

Excellent elementary exercises in Everything I Need to Know Before I’m Five by Valorie Fisher.

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Feb 25 2012

Filed Under:  Growing    Language    Toys  

Built to Spill

Bad eggs and tall orders in McFig and McFly, A Tale of Jealousy, Revenge and Death (with a Happy Ending).

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Feb 17 2012

Filed Under:  Death    Folklore    Friends & Neighbors    Role Models  

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