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summer journal comics: every boy’s idol
Spinner shirts (and our weird struggles about them) have been featured here and here this past summer. Strega Nona is, if you are childless or never read it as a kid, a picture book by Tomie dePaola. … more →
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Delightful Thai Monkey Draws Oo Oos and Ah Ahs
wrote 1 month ago: The Thai Monkey garnered lots of love and praise from the Cock & Tails Club, but one ingredient … more →
Read-aloud favorites
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wrote 2 months ago: I love reading. That’s my thing. It’s what I love to do the most when I’m inside the four (windowles … more →
In My Mailbox (38): Launch of Girl Power and Women's Wiles Bimonthly Theme for March-April
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wrote 2 months ago: We are happy to launch our Bimonthly theme this March and April: Girl Power and Women’s Wiles. … more →
Perfect Picture Book Friday/ Strega Nona’s Magic Lessons
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wrote 3 months ago: Here is my PPBF selection for today. Last week and last Tuesday I blogged on my new writer’s platfor … more →
Tomie dePaola Interview, WCAX October 26, 2011
wrote 3 months ago: By Cat Viglienzoni — February 11, 2012 I love books. Love them. So when I got the chance back … more →
Big Anthony and When He Was Born
wrote 4 months ago: By Evelyn Halbach Chapter 1: Born When Anthony’s mother was born, I don’t know why, but … more →
Life on the Margins: Witchy Women
wrote 7 months ago: Halloween is coming! And I wrote a Canonball post that at the portrayal of women as witches in child … more →
Big Anthony Speaks The Magic Words, And The SOTY Pot Begins To Bubble
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wrote 7 months ago: More or less on schedule with the arrival of shittier weather and the autumn crop of video premieres … more →
Pasta, Pasta, Everywhere
wrote 7 months ago: The Strega Nona Spaghetti Experiment There is something very pleasurable about pasta. Golden ridged … more →
Life Lesson #1 - Superman Can't Really Fly
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wrote 9 months ago: This week continued to be as wretched as expected. In preparing for the hurricane we came home and … more →
summer journal comics: every boy's idol
wrote 9 months ago: Spinner shirts (and our weird struggles about them) have been featured here and here this past summe … more →
About Me
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wrote 9 months ago: Hello. My name is Jules and I live in the frozen north (Scotland). I grew up eating a mixture of tra … more →
Gentle Reader Poll: Where Do We Go from Here?
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wrote 10 months ago: Oh Gentle Readers, special thanks to those of you who’ve been reading since the very beginning … more →
Stories From Around the World: Europe
wrote 10 months ago: The Pied Piper of Hamlin (Germany) Strega Nona (Italy) The Fox and the Hunter (Ireland) Odysseus and … more →
Big Anthony Invites You to the Extravaganza and Our Last Puppet Shows
wrote 11 months ago: Buon Giorno. I am Big Anthony. You may have heard how almost the whole town of Calabria got buried i … more →
Tortellini Twist
wrote 1 year ago: As I’ve mentioned before, my fiancé and I have tortellini once a week, almost every week. We o … more →
A Gift Given
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wrote 1 year ago: I think ‘give’ is one of the most powerful words in the English language. All the self- … more →
I Won an iPad!
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wrote 1 year ago: Back in January, I stumbled upon a post on the Teach Mama blog about the Target Read With Me program … more →
Online Storytime!
wrote 1 year ago: Watch some of your favorite children’s picture book authors and illustrators reading their boo … more →
