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A Message to Parents
From Fred Rogers
About five months before he died, Fred Rogers recorded this message to parents and caregivers who grew up watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
In addition, another page is full of many many videos from Mr. Rogers. Find the ones that work for you, a parent meeting, a sweet time to share with a child or a new mother. These priceless words from a true childhood expert will hold their truth and value for all time.
I wonder,
"Where are the Mr. Rogers, the Captain Kangaroos,
the original Mouseketeers, the Roy Rogers,
for today's children?"
Children need role models and heroes.
The time is ripe for someone
to lead children with honor and care.
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Chicago Children's Theatre:
The Houdini Box
Book and Lyrics by Hannah Kohl, YES, MY DAUGHTER!
Music by Mark Messing
Directed by Blair Thomas
Based on the book THE HOUDINI BOX written and illustrated by Brian Selznick, and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers (Selznick wrote Hugo Cabret, a Caldecott winner, and is now seen as the movie, Hugo)
Chicago Children's Theatre,
Show will be at the Mercury Theatre: 773.325.17003745 N. Southport Avenue, Chicago
January 24-March 3, 2012
Recommended for ages 5 and up
Brought to life right before your eyes by actors, musicians, and puppets, sure to thrill and surprise. As famed escape artist Harry Houdini circles the globe performing one incredible stunt after another, Victor, a young devotee goes through his own rigorous magician’s training – locking himself in closets, holding his breath under water and walking into walls. After a chance encounter with his hero, Victor receives a special box that just might contain the secrets of Houdini’s great success.
-Chris Jones
“The Houdini Box,” Chicago Children’s Theatre. Brian Selznick wrote the children’s book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” the source for “Hugo,” one of the more prominent holiday movies this year. That has propelled Selznick and his work to a new level of awareness. “The Houdini Box,” which will be directed at Chicago Children’s Theatre by the formidable visual storyteller Blair Thomas, is a brand-new musical based on Selznick’s first book, the story of a boy who receives a mysterious box that may unlock the secrets of Harry Houdini.
I love children's books and how strongly those books can affect the lives of children, increasing their creativity, their learning in general, and their connection to the larger landscape of life. Books breathe life into a child's imagination and offer a stepping stone to a lifelong zest for reading and learning.
Thanks to The PragmaticMom blog, I am sharing the following list of award winning books that will remind you of books that are worth bringing home from the library or offering as gifts.
Reposted from The PragmaticMom blog
http://www.pragmaticmom.com/?p=16387
T h a n k y o u, PM !
Administered by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award was first given to its namesake in 1954. The award, a bronze medal, honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.
Between 1960 and 1980, the Wilder Award was given every five years. From 1980 to 2001, it was awarded every three years. Beginning in 2001, it has been awarded every two years.
Between 1960 and 1980, the Wilder Award was given every five years. From 1980 to 2001, it was awarded every three years. Beginning in 2001, it has been awarded every two years.
Winners!!
2009: Ashley Bryan
2007: James Marshall
2005: Laurence Yep
2003: Eric Carle
2001: Milton Meltzer
1998: Russell Freedman
1995: Virginia Hamilton
1992: Marcia Brown
1989: Elizabeth George Speare
1986: Jean Fritz
1983: Maurice Sendak
1980: Theodor S. Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
1975: Beverly Cleary
1970: E. B. White
1965: Ruth Sawyer
1960: Clara Ingram Judson
1954: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in Wisconsin. She became an elementary school teacher, married, and moved to Mansfield, MO, in 1894, where she lived until her death at age 90.
Wilder’s first book, The Little House in the Big Woods (1932), was published when she was 65. It began the story of five-year-old Laura and her family in the Wisconsin woods. Her other publications include Farmer Boy (1933), Little House on the Prairie (1935), On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), and By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939).
Wilder wrote about home and the family primarily to entertain. She was interested in providing her young readers with information on how life was lived by their ancestors. Wilder’s books were not about the country’s leaders; they were about the country’s people.
To view any book more closely at Amazon, please click on image of book.
Related posts:
- Award Winning Children’s Books 2011: Caldecott, Newbery and more
- Predicting the Caldecott and Newbery 2012 Winners. Picks by Fuse #8 Productions, Heavy Medal Mock Newbery and 100 Scope Notes
- Best KidLit You’ve Never Heard Of: Marsh Award 2011 Winners for Children’s Literature in Translation
- Latest Children’s Lit Award Winners: O’Dell, Costa, Sheffield & more…
- Best KidLit That Teaches Tolerance, Diversity, Social Justice: Once Upon a World Award
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While trying to outsmart a cat, three white mice come upon jars of red, blue and yellow paint. They dance, jump, and amaze themselves as they mix colors, discovering how to make purple and orange and green! |
Toddlers "mouse paint" with their bare feet on butcher paper.
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While trying to outsmart a cat, three white mice come upon jars of red, blue and yellow paint. They dance, jump, and amaze themselves as they mix colors, discovering how to make purple and orange and green! |
Explore Stoll's color mixing idea as acted out by three white (briefly) mice. Print colorful mouse tracks with a plastic toy mouse dipped in paint. Imaginative mixing of colors is encouraged, like any good mouse would do!
Materials:
1. Spread a thin layer of paint in a Styrofoam grocery tray, one color for each tray. Red, blue, and yellow primary colors are good choices and correlate with the story illustrations.
2. Press the fee of a plastic mouse into one color of paint, and then onto paper to make mouse tracks. Make many, many tracks here, there, and everywhere!
3. Dip the toy mouse in a variety of paint colors so colored tracks can mix and combine, just like in the book. Try to make purple, green and orange.
Variations:
• On a warm, sunny day, go outside with bare feet. Walk in a tray of cool squishy paint, and then on paper, recreating the idea of mouse tracks. Repeat one color or walk through previously made footprints so colors will mix and create new colors.
• On the end of a wooden dowel, glue a mouse shaped track cut from the insole of a shoe or a stick-on toe pad. Let the glue dry. Make mouse track prints by pressing the track in paint and then on paper.
• Create painted footprints directly on a blacktop or concrete playground, sidewalk, or driveway. Prints will eventually rinse away after many rainy days.
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Played by the US Air Force Band.
Listen to the United States Air Force Band play Bach's "Air".
I'm writing a book called "Great Composers for Kids" with Hannah Kohl, and am just learning about the most beautiful music in the world. This piece is glorious!
Wikipedia tells us:
The "Air on the G String" is an adaptation by August Wilhelmj of the Air, the second movement from Johann Sebastian Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major. The original orchestral suite was written by Bach for his patron Prince Leopold of Anhalt sometime between the years 1717 and 1723.
The book Hannah and MaryAnn are writing
will have a correlating activity
for kids to help them connect with Bach's music.
TBA.
Meanwhile, enjoy the music!
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Only 4 Yearsold - Hank Williams Jr.Jambalaya
We often talk about creativity and that it is different than talent. Well, this little guy has both creative energy and talent -- a prodigy possibly.
Hollywood at Four
~ a memory of Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys ~
I
was four years old and visiting Hollywood for the first time, reality and
dreams blending in my young imagination until I could no longer distinguish one
from the other. To this day I am sure I saw an angel sing while playing an
electric organ in a restaurant. She wore a white organdy gown that billowed
about her like a fluffy cloud, and she sat on a revolving pedestal high above
the mortals below. She sang with a voice high and clear, playing melodies from
an electric organ of glistening white, perhaps bedecked with jewels. Her hair
was white too, as white as her gown, with light shining through it so that it
looked like starlight in cotton candy. I remember this in great detail as if it
happened yesterday.
When
we first arrived at the restaurant, my mother led me past the musical angel to
a plush velvet booth set with sparkling crystal and large quantities of
silverware. The white linen napkins were folded in a way that made me wonder if
they were party hats.
Our
family group of seven wound its way into the wrap-around booth, wearing our
best dress-up clothes to celebrate a special family occasion --- the operatic
debut of my 23-year-old aunt Czerna Faubion at the famous Hollywood Bowl.
Shortly before arriving at the restaurant of angels, I had seen my Aunt Czerna
standing inside a giant seashell singing to thousands of people. But for now, I
remained mesmerized by the singing white angel, my eyes wide and mouth wider
still. I was wondering: could I climb up on her pedestal and sit with her as
she played and sang her music to the people eating their dinners and drinking
their cocktails with clinking ice cubes? Would she like to see me wear the
napkin party hat?
My
thoughts were interrupted by something happening near the restaurant entrance,
a buzz of excitement spreading through the air. I stood on my feet to see what
the commotion was about, and to my great surprise, I could see Roy and Dale.
And I mean, "THE" Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, my heroes! It seemed
right that they would be here before me in this magical Hollywood restaurant,
except that one thing was totally out of place. I had never seen Dale and Roy
without Trigger before. Where was Trigger, Roy's horse and constant companion?
Because this was Hollywood and magic was all around me, nothing could surprise
my four-year-old self for long. And now Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were here to
make my dreams come true, with or without Trigger.
Roy and Dale slid into the booth next to ours, laughing and talking with
their friends. And, as children will, I popped right up on my feet and stared
over the back of the bench, eyes and nose just peeking over the edge where I
could get a good look at Roy and Dale. I had something on my mind I wanted to
ask Roy.
When
I spoke up, I felt brave and yet comfortable with my familiar heroes inches
away.
"Hi,
Roy. Where's Trigger?"
Roy
turned and looked over his shoulder towards me, and answered kindly, eyes
twinkling, "Oh, Trigger's outside, Honey. They don't let horses inside
restaurants, though he's a bit better behaved than most people I know."
I
agreed. Trigger was a very well behaved horse.
"Hey,
Roy," I said. "Here's some sugar for Trigger. Can you give it to him
later?"
I
handed Roy six sugar cubes from a little glass dish on the table, their white
crystals glowing against his brown gentle hands. He accepted them with a grin,
saying, "Thanks, Honey, I'll give them to him after his supper." Then
we smiled at each other. And I smiled some more as Dale flashed a big smile
directly at me, and then Roy smiled at her and she smiled at him. We were a
very happy bunch by now. Then he added, "Bye now, Honey. Thanks for the
treat!"
With a
little tug from my mom, I turned back to our table, plopped down on the bench,
and contentedly pictured Trigger nibbling on his special treat from me.
I felt good. My aunt had sung inside a seashell, there was an angel singing above me in plain sight, and Roy Rogers was going to give Trigger six sugar cubes as a gift from me. I liked Hollywood just fine.
And later, when I asked the angel to sing my favorite song, she did.
The generous creative contributors are:
Barbara Zaborowski, Beth Engelhardt, Courtney Price, Donna Hooper Moyer, Jane Phelan, Karen Heller, Katie Dupree, Lisa Skeen, Margaret Mahawold, Melva Herman, Pat Stull, Rana Show, Sara Kreutz, Suzette Milam - Morrow, Trey Neumarke, Valerie Kowaluk, Zannifer Van Antwerp.
Enjoy hearing Fred Rogers talk about his life. A treasure! This is one of 9 segments. The other segments are listed below. Each interview is about 30 minutes. Each is a treasure. Did I say T~R~E~A~S~U~R~E ? Good, because each interview is a jewel on his crown.
Clicking on any of the photos will take you to the interview website in a new window, to interview 4. You can choose andy of his nine interviews from that jumping off place.
MaryAnn writes books about art for children of all ages.
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