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ice play family a frame house fisher price 1974 a few weeks ago i had the opportunity to visit some friends and spend time with their family their youngest asked me if i wanted to play little people and i seized the opportunity soon he was lugging a plastic tub of people and vehicles and next the castle appeared and what looked like a main street set complete with stop signs and a blue postal box we started setting everything up and then i said wait i m going to go out to my car and get my little people house the look on griffin s face was priceless his little kid brain was whirring she carries little people stuff around with her in her car in truth i d just picked up the a frame house at a garage sale and it came without it s door and any furniture or people though i just found a site where i can order those things piece by piece i love its sliding glass doors such a nice touch we created a park next door to the house they have the castle and so do i but they seemed to have more of the pieces that went with it even in the fisher price playsets i had as a child i have managed to lose most of the beds people thrones etc i m not even sure which set this one is but i love it posted by carm at 9 51 am no comments labels fisher price toys saturday june 4 2011 it s my birthday yippee my 7th birthday mom made our hats posted by carm at 8 50 am no comments labels photos of me thursday april 28 2011 old witch and the polka dot ribbon wende harry devlin parents magazine press 1970 i loved the cranberryport books by the devlins when i was young and i just discovered old witch and the polka dot ribbon by wende and harry devlin and i m sort of surprised i didn t read this one when i was young since my parents seemed to have collected all of the parents magazine press books their illustrations are very distinct and while they aren t my typical aesthetic there s a kind of nostalgia there that i can t ignore old witch lives in the attic of the jug and muffin tearoom in oldwick one day she wakes up to discover nicky and his mother baking a cake for contest the contest is part of a fundraising carnival aimed at raising funds for a new bandstand old witch raises some havoc in the kitchen until she s banished and she sulks outside muttering little rhymes like the one in the next illustration finally old witch gets an idea to enter the contest herself and she unwittingly discovers some contest fraud and solves the problem in her own unique way the story is full of clever wry language that makes me chuckle and like all devlin books it comes complete with a recipe for old witch s magic nut cake posted by carm at 6 13 pm no comments labels wende and harry devlin monday april 25 2011 modern monday just being audrey margaret cardillo author julia denos illustrator balzer bray an imprint of harper collins 2011 i discovered this picture book on the newly arrived shelf at our local library and i snatched it up read it once and now it s on my must have list i love denos illustrations and the simple story really captures the greatness of audrey hepburn i ve long loved this classic actress for her style her quirky mannerisms and her fantastic movies one of my favorites is charade with cary grant i recently purchased a book for grown ups called fifth avenue 5 a m audrey hepburn breakfast at tiffany s and the dawn of the modern woman by sam wasson the story begins with a ten year old audrey who dreams of becoming a ballerina it describes how she and her family survived ww ii in europe and how following the war she and her mother moved to london where audrey traded her dreams of dancing for the reality of being an actress the illustrations capture miss hepburn s classic look her hair her expressions and some of her most notable acting roles funny face sabrina my fair lady breakfast at tiffany s and more and the costumes that defined them here s a short trailer for the book with even more illustrations and because it s just not right to pay tribute to audrey hepburn through a children s book without a glimpse into the real life wonder here s the original trailer for breakfast at tiffany s posted by carm at 10 25 pm no comments labels biography films modern monday must have monday thursday april 7 2011 stay gold ponyboy the outsiders francis ford coppola 1983 coppola s film is based on s e hinton s classic book first published in 1967 i read the book before i saw the movie as it should be i was in 5th grade i still remember where i was when i finished the final pages sitting in the van outside my aunt and uncle s house we were gathered for some event a holiday meal perhaps i had to compose myself before i could go inside because i was crying so hard the kind of cry where tears splash down on the neck and there aren t enough tissues to really mop up the sorrow i watched this film again on new year s this year and i was reminded of the power behind both the film and the book the all star nature of the cast is almost unbelievable emilio estevez rob lowe c thomas howell matt dillon ralph macchio patrick swayze and tom cruise and i d nearly forgotten diane lane as cherry valance as an english teacher i usually touch on some robert frost poetry in my american literature class and i m always impressed when students recognize nothing gold can stay and make the connection between the outsiders whether film or book and the poem nothing gold can stay by robert frost nature s first green is gold her hardest hue to hold her early leaf s a flower but only so an hour then leaf subsides to leaf so eden sank to grief so dawn goes down to day nothing gold can stay i believe it was s e hinton who really kicked off the era of young adult literature if you ve not read the book or seen the movie though i find that hard to believe it s about a group of kids greasers who are from the wrong side of the tracks in tulsa oklahoma they constantly clash with the socs the preppy kids in town it has all the 60s good stuff like drive in movies and rumbles great nicknames like ponyboy two bit and sodapop and then there s johnny everyone loves johnny without saying too much more i ll just add that it s a tragic yet feel good drama that reminds us all of the power of friendship resilience and the challenges life throws at us posted by carm at 8 02 am no comments labels films wednesday april 6 2011 love those little golden books ryan novelline designer 2011 apparently i m not the only one i just ran across this gem in the school library journal artist ryan novelline used approximately 1500 pages from 300 little golden books which he found at thrift stores and sewed together with golden thread there are amazing pictures of this wild dress here on his site do check them out posted by carm at 6 40 am no comments labels art little golden books tuesday april 5 2011 messy by barbara bottner barbara bottner delacourte press 1979 messy by barbara bottner is the story of harriet the messiest six year old girl around mostly she s okay with her mess but she s aware of the stark contrast between her messy ways and those of her friends and ballet classmates however harry s esteem soars pretty high much like her quality dance moves when she s praised by her dance teacher mrs markova and when she is offered the role of princess in their recital she vows to become a changed woman or six year old it mostly works it s a simple book nothing profound but i ve been looking for this one for years i ve found little evidence of its existence online one reference with no images on amazon and then one day i managed to find a copy through inter library loan there is satisfaction in simply knowing i didn t make this book up in my brain posted by carm at 10 30 pm 3 comments labels barbara bottner monday april 4 2011 the trampoline 1970s farmgirl style jason and me 1977 posted by carm at 9 19 pm no comments labels photos of me sunday august 15 2010 tupperware toys busy blocks tupperware 1971 all of i have of this toy from my childhood is a single green figurine we were hard on toys and then when my mom had a house fire little was left of the things she still had at her place sadly these blocks were a casualty i remember bringing them with me in a little suitcase when i went over to carlson s to babysit we d link them together and play with the figures i didn t remember that they were alphabet blocks but now that makes the choices of the little green figures make sense airport boat camel dog elephant fox giraffe horse indian jeep kangaroo lion monkey nurse owl pig queen rabbit seal train unicorn violin whale xylophone yacht and zebra i love that there was a unicorn yay tupperware posted by carm at 12 02 pm no comments labels toys friday april 10 2009 the bunny book by richard scarry richard scarry western publishing company 1965 this book is more informative than anything simple descriptions and explanations introduce young readers to the variety of characteristics that make up the bunny this book appears to have many different cover options but it s the content i care about i simply adore this rabbits have large families image young readers will learn that some rabbits have giant ears and some have tiny ones and rabbits can run very fast the book also focuses in on a few rabbit examples the snowshoe rabbit turns white in winter and brown in summer angora rabbits have soft cuddly fur lop eared rabbits have long floppy ears then on one page five different breeds are illustrated dutch chinchilla flemish giant vienna blue and cottontail ah yes this is more than just your easter bunny book though there is a page dedicated to that too there is only one true to form busytown looking page with two little bunnies dressed to the nines rabbits like to get all dressed up if they are going to be in a story book yeah you can t beat that posted by carm at 5 18 am 1 comment labels 8 x 8s holidays richard scarry wednesday april 8 2009 the golden egg book the golden egg book by margaret wise brown illustrated by lilian obligado western publishing company 1947 i ve managed to pull together a handful of bunny books in time for easter and trust me there are more it turns out that bunnies and rabbits are a great subject for the children s book this little golden book is a lovely story about a duck and a bunny it begins with bunny finding a mysterious egg and wondering what is inside in his impatience he pushes it with his foot rolls the egg down the hill throws rocks at it and finally gets so worn out from wondering and waiting that he falls asleep of course a watched egg never hatches but when bunny sleeps duck emerges duck is mystified by this furry thing beside his egg and he tries to rouse it by doing all the same things bunny did to the egg nudges him with his foot throws a rock rolls him down the hill until finally the bunny wakes and the two embrace and no one was ever alone again posted by carm at 6 22 am no comments labels holidays little golden books margaret wise brown tuesday april 7 2009 pat the bunny by dorothy kunhardt dorothy kunhardt golden books publishing 1940 i distinctly recall this 18 page golden touch and feel book from my younger days anything scratch and sniff was hugely exciting for me and this book had all sorts of sensory treats i love this sandpaper jaw image how judy can feel daddy s scratchy face readers can play peek a boo with paul or look in the mirror and my flowers still smell fragrant for years this was a standby for a baby gift since i d found the softest sweetest bunny to go with the book it s been awhile since i ve seen pat the bunny dolls but if i find some i may need to stock up those friends of mine keep on having the babies and babies must be given books my mother wrote pat the bunny in 1940 when i was 12 wrote is not quite the right word even though the book is 135 words long made would be more accurate before pat books for very little children were for reading aloud and looking at this one was for playing with as well right on the pages themselves were a variety of real things all babies love to go after there was a fluffy little cottontail to pat a peekaboo cloth to pick up and peep behind a red ball that squeaked a shiny mirror to look into a daddy s scratchy beard to feel a miniature book about a bunny with pages to turn and a mother s wedding ring to stick a finger through it was the original touch and feel book as they call the genre in the trade today and even though it has inspired a hutch of imitations golden press still goes on cutting and gluing and stamping out and hand finishing a quarter of a million new copies of pat each year annually using up acres of sandpaper beard six football fields of peekaboo cloth and enough metalized polyester to mirror over a small lake check out the rest of this article by philip b kundhardt jr about pat the bunny s 50th anniversary back in 1990 good stuff posted by carm at 7 04 am 3 comments monday april 6 2009 modern monday la cucaracha martina a carribean folktale la cucaracha martina a carribean folktale retold and illustrated by daniel moreton turtle books 1997 simply put while searching for the source of one beautiful sound martina a ravishing cockroach who is tired of the city life rejects marriage proposals from a menagerie of city animals which woo her with their noises all ends well when she finally meets the cricket of her dreams and after the wedding they move to the country the illustrations are sharp and colorful and were created on a mac with adobe illustrator the book has a ton of delicious details and a spattering of spanish aeropuerto telefono autobus by way of example the signage in particular is all in spanish and the porcine waiter wears a name tag which reads me llamo puerco the sounds the various animals make are all written in large funky fonts and the illustrations feature text all over the place not exactly in the hyper text sense but in something fresh and unusual from the picture books of the past while i m not a fan of the common cockroach in regular life i have a soft spot for miss martina and i m glad she found her wonderful noise and the creature that belonged to it posted by carm at 6 48 am no comments labels art fairy tales modern monday sunday april 5 2009 the king of the elephants laurent de brunhoff random house 1973 as they move through the four seasons in and around celesteville the city of elephants we see the lives of babar and celeste and their children alexander pom and flora we meet old lady also their teacher and cousin arthur and his friend zephir the monkey this is a family on the go and we follow babar and celeste from the domestic fun of gardening to tennis warm days of swimming in the lake to throwing parties at celesteville gardens sometimes they go sailing or for drives in the country the children enjoy soccer and like their teacher who is not strict in the winter they go ice skating and downhill skiing and one of the children suffers a small mishap which requires a doctor visit this is not too s...