400 Recipes 3 & 4 Ingredients Turkey Burgers prepared by Suzanne My excitement of only needing 3 or 4 ingredients ( my kind of cooking ) was quickly dashed when I opened to the first recipe and saw “g” you know for grams , in the ingredient list… dang. Ah but like a good pilot [...]
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Steve Martin. For those of you slow on the uptake he’s not just an awesome comedian… hilarious actor… art collector, and author of some knock out works… Shopgirl An Object of Beauty Born Standing Up Pleasure of My Company Late for School The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z! Picasso at the Lapin Agile and [...]
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To My Mother by Robert Louis Stevenson You too, my mother, read my rhymes For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once more The little feet along the floor. A Chair for Mother by Vera B. Williams Softies Only A Mother Could Love by Jess Redman and Meg Leder Color of [...]
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Check out this absolutely fabulous new accessory for your coffee table or bookshelf…StylelikeU… How to describe such a phenomenon?? Yes, it’s a book, but before it arrived at our quaint little store it was already budding and blooming on that fantastic doodad we commonly refer to as the internet. Click here to check out [...]
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I recently snagged a book from our selection of advanced readers to take with me on my long journey to Iowa and back. Melanie was the first to spot it, in all honesty, but graciously allowed me to read it first. The cover has a fantastic Art Nouveau flare to it … The Truth About [...]
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April is National Poetry Month. I know that last year I posted a poem a day which I would attempt again this year but without Dick or Erin it would I think I’d end up struggling with it. However, if you sign up here you can get a poem-a-day emailed to you. Let’s be honest, [...]
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So, last March I ran into Lauren Oliver at the Book Expo. Love her love her love her, and I told her so… a lot if I recall. And she graciously guided me to the Harper Collins booth so I could get the advanced reader for her, at that time, to-be-released novel Delirium. I had [...]
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April is National Poetry Month. I know that last year I posted a poem a day, which I would attempt again this year but without Dick or Erin it would be a bit of a struggle. However, if you sign up here you can get a poem-a-day emailed to you. Let’s be honest, poets.org will [...]
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I don’t care that I’m almost thirty, I love picture books. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. If you’re like me, you’d be more than stoked to fill your shelves with row after row of books allegedly intended for tiny readers. Why should all those amazing illustrations be wasted on the young? Well, they shouldn’t [...]
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It’s never too early to be hip and tech savy. Check out this NPR article about children’s book apps for iPods, iPhones and iPads. Ruckus Media founder, Rick Richter commented on his companies goals in designing digital media for tiny tots, focusing especially on their award winning adaptation of A Present For Milo. “What a 2- to [...]
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