Not yet Advent and I'm already giving myself over to the Christmasization of late autumn.
I got out an old favorite book to read to the girls at bedtime. How old? It was read to me as a child in the late 1960s. Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree , by Robert Barry, tells the story of a too-tall tree that is cut to size and enjoyed by myriad woodland creatures. It is written entirely in rhymed couplets, and delightfully clever. The drawings are simple and full o' whimsy. For the one who reads it aloud, there are many opportunities to create interesting voices.
I highly recommend this book to folks with little ones who are about 4 or older and who don't mind the secular side of the season.
16 years ago
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I remember that book. :=)
Kinda reminds me of the book about the steam shovel that ended up living in the library or whatever that he helped dig out....and then they couldn't get him out.
Whimsy is good. Reading is...fundamental.
Peggy :)
Peggy: You are thinking of: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton. His shovel, Mary Anne, was retooled to become the steam furnace of the new town hall.
Yes, Kathie!! That's it!!
I remember belonging to the Weekly Reader Club, and Mom and Dad buying me books weekly or monthly as a youngster. That was always fun to get a new book.
I know Ruth loved to read, too. Her favorite was the Dr. Seuss book, Big A, little A, what begins with A? *lol*
Peggy :)
peggy.....aunt annie's alligator...a...a...a....
love ya lots,
mary
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