Book birthdays are always special…even more so when they are for author friends. And guess what? This author has more than one book launching today!!!
So please clear your throats and get ready to sing out for these beautiful books!
Forgive me…I couldn’t wait! I had to just Continue reading
Happy Sunday, everyone. We are continuing our countdown with Day Nine of Christie Wright Wild’s PB 14:14.
Having loved picture books for most of my life, I’ve read quite a few. Many of my favorites contain rhyme…which isn’t surprising since rhyme is one of the Top Ten Elements found in picture books.
So today my choice is a book that includes lots of rhyme.
Title: A Troop is a Group of Monkeys
Author: Julie Hedlund
Illustrator: Pamela Baron
Publisher: Little Bahalia Publishing
Date: 2013
Word Count: 250 estimated
Top Ten Element: Rhyme
Opening Lines:
“A parliament of owls hoots in the night.
A pandemonium of parrots begins to take flight.
A troop of monkeys travels by swinging.
A colony of bats spends the day clinging.
What makes this book really special is that each page delivers a word for the group of that particular animal. Did you know that a group of peacocks is called an ostentation? Or that a group of giraffes is called a tower? Or that a group of skunks is called a surfeit? Continue reading
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It’s time to have lots of fun with Susanna Leonard Hill’s Halloweensie Contest!
There is still plenty of time to enter – here are the rules from her website:
“The 3rd Annual HALLOWEENSIE CONTEST!!!!!
The Contest: write a 100 word Halloween story appropriate for children (title not included in the 100 words), using the words spooky, black cat, and cackle. Your story can be scary, funny or anything in between, poetry or prose, but it will only count for the contest if it includes those 3 words (you can count black cat as one word) and is 100 words (you can go under, but not over!) Get it? Halloweensie – because it’s not very long and it’s for little people 🙂
Post your story on your blog between now and Thursday October 31st by 11:59 PM EDT and add your post-specific link to the list below. There will be no Would You Read It or Perfect Picture Books this week, so the post and the list of links will stay up all week for everyone to enjoy. I hope everyone will visit everyone and you’ll all get your friends and relations to visit, read and enjoy too! If you don’t have a blog and would like to enter, you can simply copy and paste your entry in the comments section below. (If you have trouble, and alas, people sometimes do, just email your entry to susanna[at]susannahill[dot]com and I’ll post it in the comments for you!)”
It’s so much fun to read all of the creative entries – and the prizes are SPECTACULAR!!! Click here to enter and/or read the other entries.
Happy Halloween, everyone!
VIVIAN KIRKFIELD - Writer for Children 