Mal: We're still flying. Simon: That's not much. Mal: It's enough.

'Serenity'


Natter 31 But Looks 29  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Jan 04, 2005 11:14:45 am PST #2898 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Mickey in the Night Kitchen!

Milk in the batter! Milk in the batter! We bake cakes and nothing's the matter!


sarameg - Jan 04, 2005 11:15:28 am PST #2899 of 10002

Ah hah: The Funny Little Woman.


Ginger - Jan 04, 2005 11:16:34 am PST #2900 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Do children still read Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Ferdinand the Bull and The Little Engine That Could?


juliana - Jan 04, 2005 11:18:17 am PST #2901 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Poor Ferdinand. I always felt sorry for him.


Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2005 11:25:31 am PST #2902 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Ferdinand the Bull and The Little Engine That Could?

My kids did.


DavidS - Jan 04, 2005 11:27:28 am PST #2903 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Emmett loved Ferdinand and In The Night Kitchen.

In San Francisco, you can go to the Metreon and the Where the Wild Things Are attraction and eat at the Night Kitchen. They even have a little bread train, but it doesn't go anymore.


Allyson - Jan 04, 2005 11:29:09 am PST #2904 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

In the Night Kitchen gave me the creeps.

Tiki Tiki Tembo! Yay!


JZ - Jan 04, 2005 11:36:40 am PST #2905 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Allyson, this book, or really anything by Kevin Henkes.

Good Night, Mister Night.

Anything by Nancy Willard. When I was a kid I loved Simple Pictures Are Best more than anything, but now I'm more of a Visit To William Blake's Inn gal. (The inn is real. It is five feet tall and sits in a corner of her dining room.)

And I know Kat will join me in the Peter Sis love, though his books are so large and beautiful and shiny (and sometimes delicate, with cutouts and sliding panels and such) that they're strictly early reader rather than toddler. But so beautiful.

Rats. Stoopid work. Gone now.


Lee - Jan 04, 2005 11:43:48 am PST #2906 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Allyson, I know a lot of kids who like Rosemary Wells stuff: [link]

Sekret message to Sparky1: hey, I didn't say how old the "kids" were.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 04, 2005 11:46:27 am PST #2907 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Okay. My sister-in-law broke my heart and told me the only books my nephew has are the ones I buy him... Any good suggestions?

Yes: steal him and see to it that he's raised among people who regard reading as a good thing.