Kid's and YA Literature Vox 2008-07-04T01:58:56Z tag:vox.com,2006:6p00e398b6d0f20001/ Blogging about all things Kid's Lit Writing for Children tag:vox.com,2008-06-23:asset-6a00fa96799730000300fad693f4c10004 2008-06-23T04:57:49Z 2008-07-04T01:58:56Z Virna http://iamvirna.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Tales of Peter Rabbit and His Friends The Giving Tree Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (Classic Seuss) The Missing Piece (An Ursula Nordstrom Book) Where the Wild Things Are The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales The Odyssey Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (Barnes & Noble Classics)

I enrolled for a Creative Writing class this semester as a Creative Production Elective. It's CW 150 - Writing for Children. I thought it was easy at first, but I was dead wrong, and now I'm dead scared. I'm really dead. Haha. Apparently, writ...

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]]> Blah. tag:vox.com,2008-06-24:asset-6a00fa96799730000300fa968157e30002 2008-06-24T16:12:39Z 2008-06-25T09:19:45Z Virna http://iamvirna.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I already had the money, so I decided to go book shopping today, yay! I was already having a lot of fun, until I went to the photocopying center to get my copy of the required reading materials for my Creative Writing class this sem. Tenene...

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]]> Sudoku fever tag:vox.com,2008-06-26:asset-6a00e3989f7c4d000500fad694092f0005 2008-06-26T06:50:16Z 2008-06-27T07:04:23Z Emu with a Clue http://catandv.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Easy Sudoku Puzzles #1 (Dora the Explorer)

I got one of these Dora sudoku sticker books for $1 the other day and my 5yo son is obsessed with it. I went through a brief period of being obsessed with sudoku but lost interest after I worked out how to solve them. They also caused me to get ...

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Twilight Filming - Greenhouse Field Trip Scene Edward Cullen Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and Isabella Swan (Kristen Stewart) Edward and Bella Edward and Bella

Props to anyone who gets the reference of the title the first time they read it! =] To those who didn't. You guys have to watch this, specially if you're a Twilighter. Hah! Note: Twilight Movie Spoilers. So yesssss, a post dedicated to the one o...

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]]> O.R Melling, fantasy magician tag:vox.com,2008-06-19:asset-6a00fa9679dff5000200fa967fac7b0002 2008-06-19T04:44:09Z 2008-06-20T03:13:57Z awain69 http://awain69.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Fairy

While I was living in Canada, during my first year of graduate school, I discovered, in a Chapters bookstore, the magic of O.R. Melling, young adult fantasy author. I picked up her book "The Chronicles of Faerie," and was utterly captivated. "Th...

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Danny Kaye : I'm Hans Christian Andersen Film Scoring Project - "Battle in the Trees"

It was a very wet and cold weekend in Sydney so we spent quite a bit more time than usual indoors. On Saturday afternoon, the kids and I watched Danny Kaye in Hans Christian Anderson. My mum had found the dvd cheap somewhere and sent it up. We...

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]]> Saturday morning comprehension fun! tag:vox.com,2008-06-14:asset-6a00e3989f7c4d000500fad69133c10004 2008-06-14T03:26:02Z 2008-06-16T00:31:42Z Emu with a Clue http://catandv.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Gold Apple - huge resolution! The Shape Game V+m.jpg The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)

Wouldn't you just hate to have a frustrated English teacher for a parent at age 9? My daughter has been having a bit of trouble with comprehension tests at school lately (probably because she is not terribly keen on reading) so this morning I got...

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]]> Some poems from my daughter tag:vox.com,2008-06-09:asset-6a00e3989f7c4d000500fa967ca4390002 2008-06-09T04:01:17Z 2008-06-11T02:39:53Z Emu with a Clue http://catandv.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Back in time 100_1717 100_1679

Homework poem Homework sits on top of Sunday squashing Sunday flat Homework has the smell of Monday Homeworks very fat Elephant on the telephone There once was a elephant who tried to use a telephant No! No! I mean an elephone Yes he t...

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]]> Friday 13 on Friday 13th: 13 books I loved as a child tag:vox.com,2008-06-13:asset-6a00e3989f7c4d000500fa967ddf1d0002 2008-06-13T06:46:19Z 2008-06-19T05:24:37Z Emu with a Clue http://catandv.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories (Young Puffin Books) The Magic Faraway Tree Mr. Galliano's Circus (Rewards) Snugglepot and Cuddlepie The Ramona Collection, Vol. 1: Ramona the Brave / Ramona and Her Father/Ramona the Pest/Beezus and Ramona Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking The Lorax (Classic Seuss) The Early Bird -- Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? -- Are You My Mother?, 3 Vols. Set (I Can Read It All By Myself Beginner Books, Assorted Volumes) Anne of Green Gables Seven Little Australians A Little Bush Maid & Mates at Billabong : Omnibus Edition Little Town on the Prairie (Little House)

It is interesting to see how many of these books were old fashioned even then. A lot of the books that I had were actually my parents' books when they were children. I still have a lot of them now and Mum still has ...

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]]> Vox Hunt: Crooked tag:vox.com,2008-06-10:asset-6a00e3989f7c4d000500fa967cfaee0002 2008-06-10T06:02:21Z 2008-06-10T06:02:21Z Emu with a Clue http://catandv.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Little Crooked House

Show us something crooked.

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