Just One More Book!!

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Author: Marianne Berkes
Illustrator: Jeanette Canyon
Published: 2004 Dawn Publications (on JOMB)
ISBN: 1584690623

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Brilliantly peppy polymer clay sculpture and enticing, educational details transform the traditional “Over in the Meadow” toddlers’ tune into a celebration of sea life that has captivated our whole family.

Other books mentioned:

• Going Around The Sun: Some Planetary Fun
• books by Barbara Reid

You can learn more about 2008 International Year of the Reef here.

More singable books on JOMB:

• Sing, Sophie
• Sitting On the Farm
• The Eensy-Weensy Spider
• Wenceslas
• Monster Goose
• Science Verse

Be sure to pop over to Two Writing Teachers for today’s full menu of poetry offerings.

Poetry Fridays are brought to us by Kelly Herold of Big A, Little A.

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You’d think it would be easy to pick favourite children’s books. Indeed, that’s what Mark thought.

As it turns out, there are far too many amazing children’s books, authors and illustrators to limit ourselves to just ten choices. Even so, Mark suggested we try compiling our Desert Island 10 — books we’d need to have with us if we were stranded on a desert island.

The list that follows captures the names of books, book series and authors mentioned.

• The Sound of Colors
• The Little Wolf Series
• Alligator Pie
• Jack Prelutsky books (Dragons are Singing Tonight, Monday’s Troll, Something Big Has Been Here, A Pizza the Size of the Sun)
• Dr. Xargle series
• Kendra Kandlestar and the Box of Whispers
• Sheree Fitch books
• Barbara Reid books
• Loris Lesynski books
• The Hound From the Pound
• Iggy Peck, Architect *
• Dr. Ted (coming April 2008)
• Jon Scieszka books
• Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book
• The Three Little Bears
• The Princess and the Pea
• The Frog Prince
• Fairy tales generically
• Two Frogs
• Eva Ibbotson’s books
• The Meanest Doll in the World
• I Want a Dog

Are you brave or crazy enough to create your own Desert Island 10? Share your list as a comment on this post, send your MP3 recorded or type-written list via email to justonemorebook@gmail.com, or phone it in to our listener feedback line (206-350-6487).

* Congratulations to Andrea Beaty. Her book, Iggy Peck, Architect, is one of Time Magazine’s top ten children’s books of 2007!

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Mark speaks with author and illustrator Barbara Reid about her use of plasticine in children’s book illustrations, how certain works were photographed for The Party, and how she read books by picking sections of the Dewey Decimal System in her school library.

Books mentioned:

• Fox Walked Alone
  
• The Party
• The Subway Mouse

You can learn more about the way Barbara Reid works with plasticine by reading her book Fun With Modeling Clay.

Participate in the conversation by leaving a comment on this interview, or send an email to justonemorebook@gmail.com.

Photo: http://www.barbarareid.ca/biography.htm

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Author: Barbara Reid
Illustrator: Barbara Reid
Published: 1999 Scholastic Canada, Ltd
ISBN: 0590124285

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Plasticine illustrations magically bring to life this rollicking rhyming narration of a happy childhood memory. Anyone who has experienced (or imagined!) the rollercoaster of emotions that is a large family gathering will love this beautiful book.

Thank you Guido Stein (It’s A Purl Man), Karen, Vivian (Clip Podcast), Bob Goyetche, Mitch Joel (Six Pixels of Separation), C.C. Chapman (Accident Hash), Charles Cadenhead (Mostly News), Christopher Penn (Financial Aid Podcast), Bryan Person (New Comm Road), Chris Brogan (Grasshopper New Media), Jason Van Orden (Promoting Your Podcast), Dave LaMorte (Teaching for the Future), Jeff (A Life of Play), and Whitney Hoffman (LD Podcast)