You are here: Home / children I was stuck on the Phoenicians. Have you bought Miss Missy’s School yet? Available to preview and order here.
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Okay. I fixed the spelling. But still. Very nice, isn’t it? In the unlikely event that you don’t know what book this review is discussing– what rock have you been under for two years? Just kidding. It is possible that one or two of my hundreds of thousands of followers (again, j/k) has not yet
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If you read Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of Farm Dogs Starts a School, please leave a review at the site of purchase or at Goodreads! The Epilogue to which the reviewer refers is the final chapter in the book, “Epilogue: Old Things & Ways Explained.” These entries, organized by chapter, explain in
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I’m doing some research and stumbled across this in The Junior Book of Authors Second Edition Revised (Kunitz and Haycraft, eds., 1951, 1st 1934). FYI Kunitz was incredible prolific: https://gab.com/Marica/posts/107673594698487121. For some odd reason, I don’t have the original first edition of this crappy old book (need to fix that order placed but it’s coming from the UK)
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The stacked books at the far left are the Book House for Children series. Miss Missy’s School is in good company! The “Epilogue: Old Things & Ways Explained” has a short entry on Kenneth Grahame and The Wind in the Willows. Do you know on what occasion Grahame told the very first Toad story? Miss
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Glossophobia is a Missy-ism “word she meant to say!” What is a “Missy-ism?” Missy is a very smart dog with a large vocabulary but sometimes she doesn’t choose the word she means to say. On the Farm we call these silly mix-ups Missy-isms. We don’t want readers to make the same silly mistakes Missy makes,
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Miss Missy’s School Book I: A Pack of Farm Dogs Starts a School An endearing story for the whole family, including many learning opportunities for all! Preview the first three chapters of Miss Missy’s School! The Preview includes a sampling of some of the educational material in the book: the “Guide to Roman Numerals,” some “Epilogue”
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Cute as a button, aren’t they? Robin Ball Designs You know what would be a fun thing to do? By a card, or get the 6-card boxed set (there are several different themes). Order Miss Missy’s School. And then give a young friend the book with a card written to him or her. What a
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Today we will be looking at Christmasy things. Hope you enjoy!
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O the days gone by! Originally published on October 22, 2020 by Marica | Edit O the days gone by! O the days gone by!The apples in the orchard, and the pathway through the rye;The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle of the quailAs he piped across the meadows sweet as any nightingale;When the bloom was on the clover,
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Evensong Originally published on October 27, 2020 by Marica “Lay away the story,—Though the theme is sweet,There’s a lack of something yet,Leaves it incomplete:—There’s a nameless yearning—Strangely undefined—For a story sweeter stillThan the written kind. Therefore read no longer—I’ve no heart to hearBut just something you make up,O my mother dear.—With your arms around me,Hold me, folded-eyed,—Only let
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very English in appearance…” There is a fellow on Gab who posts a daily Project Gutenberg Release notes to the Old Books group. This one naturally caught my eye (orig. published 1899). It is a bibliography, with many annotated entries. Church, by the way, also wrote The Iliad for Boys and Girls (1907) that we
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The Bat Poet Randall Jarrell. Maurice Sendak, illus. Harper Collins, New York. 1964. (reprinted, 1992) They just don’t write ’em like this anymore. Or if they do, I haven’t found them and that’s too bad. As you know, I’ve been spending a lot of my life in the last year or so looking at children’s
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Good morning, afternoon, or evening as the case may be! Today I was sidetracked. I need to do a little write up on the Phoenicians and it occurred to me that there might be something in my Horizon Magazine (scroll down a bit) collection that would be more than what I’m finding in encyclopedia and online.
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From one of the worst children’s books I’ve ever read, The Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide (2003). Does that look like a low ceiling to you? I have first hand knowledge of what “walls covered in bookshelves” look like, and this ain’t it. I feel sorry for kids today. I did something I think I’ve
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hobbitwardrobe.com if the embed doesn’t work. Well worth five minutes of your time.
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From The Iliad for Boys and Girls (A.J. Church, 1941)
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Jo Beth had some difficulties finding seeds for her garden recently. I noticed that there are a few varieties that are out of stock at Botanical Interests, especially in the larger packages. So just a heads up. The photo above is from… let’s just say years ago. It’s of my front yard garden in Cincinnati.
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Available in sizes 2T, 3T, 4T, Youth XS (4-5), Youth S (6-7), and Youth M (8) Little Sweetheart Check out their web site or visit them on Instagram!
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Came across this while surveying the Children’s Library. Cute. Love how it’s assumed kids know beavers use mud as a building material. Down Our Street (1939)
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