Do children still read Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Ferdinand the Bull and The Little Engine That Could?
So, how was your summer? Mine was fun. Saw some fish. Went mad with hunger. Hallucinated a whole bunch.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
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.
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
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.
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.
Scrappy - Jan 04, 2005 11:51:17 am PST #2908 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Skipped literally thousands of messages to say Happy New Year to all!!! Back from a visit to mom. Best accomplishments of the visit? Got mom to get rid of horrible white melamine cofee tables by sneakily pointing out lovely wood ones on sale while at Ikea for her to get a new couch. Got taken out to fab NYE dinner by little brother to a lovely restaurant in an old restored mill. read and loved "Middlesex," by Jeffrey Eugenides (thanks, Kat!). Last and best, talked my mom into going without her wig at the reception she threw for my brother--so she revealed her fuzzy post-chemo head to 50 people at once, all of whom thought she looked terrific.
Now, how the hell are all of you?
Ginger - Jan 04, 2005 11:52:39 am PST #2909 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Tell her it will start looking like real hair in a month or so, although the weird fuzzy stuff stays on the ends. How's she doing otherwise, Robin?