We’ve flown over to Canadian Bookshelf today, to join in their celebration of kids’ books. Visit us there! We look forward to meeting you back here very soon…..
Gone owling …
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A mother-daughter reading journal by Kristen den Hartog and “N”
- “Blog of Green Gables [is] a lovely, moving journal, accompanied by the child's illustrations, and each time I read it, it has me wishing I could magically produce a ten-year-old daughter to add to my family.” Niranjana Iyer
Twitter Updates
- Thanks for the RT @sharilapena , I just love Phil's story.... 4 days ago
- Happy to welcome fellow trillium nominee Phil Hall to my blog. Did YOUR teacher ever cry in class? blogofgreengables.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/gue… 4 days ago
- Dahl interrupted: it was a strange experience, and I'm still not sure we handled it right. blogofgreengables.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/dah… 1 week ago
Books so far ...
- A Bargain for Frances
- A Christmas Carol
- A is for Alice
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Amphigorey
- Babar
- Bambi, A Life in the Woods
- Batty Bat
- Brave Irene
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
- Charlotte's Web
- Clarice Bean
- Clarice Bean (revisited)
- Coraline
- Danny, the Champion of the World
- Esio Trot
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Frog and Toad
- Gnomes
- Goodnight Moon
- Harry Potter 1
- Harry Potter 2
- Harry Potter 3
- Harry Potter 4
- Harry Potter 5
- Harry Potter 6
- Harry Potter 7
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- I Believe in Unicorns
- Ivy and Bean
- Ivy and Bean, What's the Big Idea?
- Library Mouse
- Little House
- Manners
- Mary Poppins
- Matilda
- Mouse Soup
- Mrs. Armitage on Wheels
- Owl Moon
- Peter Pan
- Rainbow Magic, Pippi and The Wizard of Oz
- Read to Your Bunny
- Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
- The Amazing Bone
- The BFG
- The Borrowers
- The Boy Who Grew Flowers
- The House at Pooh Corner
- The Magic Finger
- The Secret Garden
- The Twits
- Through the Looking Glass
- Twelve Dancing Princesses (Barbie at the Symphony)
- Welterusten, kleintje
- What the Witch Left
- Where the Sidewalk Ends
Places to find me
When writers read kids' books
- Allyson Latta: Dutch Boys and Fast Boats
- Carrie Snyder: the many stages of reading
- Iain Reid: Fantastic Mr Reid on Fantastic Mr Fox
- Kerry Clare: "Once there was a baby …"
- Michelle Berry: "Reading (and writing) is a noisy thing for me"
- Shannon Anderson: building a library
- Shannon Bramer: "My Babe, My Boobs, Our Books"
- Shari Lapena: raising an excellent (dyslexic) reader
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Pearls
"So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone." From Matilda, by Roald Dahl- "And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me." Astrid Lindgren
- “I wish she would just write the story the way I have it in my head! This can’t be happening!” N regarding JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- “I never know why Mary Poppins is thought of as a children’s book. Indeed I don’t think there are such things. There are simply books and some of them children read.” P.L. Travers
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Blog of Green Gables · a mother-daughter reading journal by Kristen den Hartog
Your owling blog was wonderful. How lucky N is to have storytelling parents and an Uncle Gene with exciting tales of the woodland life.
Thank you!
Your post captures well the deep connection we have with nature and the awe, respect and trepidation it inspires. Perfectly timed too with October winds rattling and winter a figure in the shadows – time for woolly sweaters right?
And Halloween too!