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Friday, June 17, 2011

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day planning to you, that is! How about a cute card? Martha has a folded-shirt & a shirt cuff version we're trying out this year (and I found some super simple instructions). I guess it's all about the clothes this year. Or not!

Books by Authors We Love... (read any of their stuff that you can get your hands on!)

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by Mealer & Kamkwamba
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Theatre Shoes by Noel Streatfield
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
Dumpling Days by Grace Lin
O the Red Rose Tree by Patricia Beatty
The Fledgling by Jane Langton
The Search for Delicious by Natalie Babbitt
The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield
The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker
The Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit
Swallows & Amazons by Arthur Ransome
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry
Baby Island by Carol Ryrie Brink
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by EL Konigsberg
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Honus and Me by Dan Gutman
Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson
Babe the Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith
Return to Gone Away by Elizabeth Enright
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Town Cats and Other Tales by Lloyd Alexander
Herman the Great by Zora Louise Olsen
The Doll People by Ann Martin
Merry, Rose, and Christmas-Tree June by Doris Orgel
B is for Betsy by Carolyn Haywood
The Great Cheese Conspiracy by Jean Van Leeuwen
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Magic School Bus chapter books
My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Bobbsey Twins by Laura Lee Hope
The Happy Hollisters by Jerry West
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright
The Cricket in Times Square by George Seldon
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
Four Dolls by Rumer Godden
Half Magic by Edward Eager
James Herriot's Children's Treasury
Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne
The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
The Happy Orpheline by Natalie Savage Carlson
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series by Betty MacDonald
Little House Chapter Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House Christmas Stories by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Five Dolls in a House by Helen Clare
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Hairy Hezekiah by Dick King-Smith
Miss Pickerell series by Ellen Macgregor
Trolley Car Family by Eleanor Clymer
Happy Little Family by Rebecca Caudill
The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor
Olga da Polga by Michael Bond
The Children of Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren
The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
Big Susan by Elizabeth Orton Jones
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard & Florence Atwater
My Father's Dragon series by Ruth Stiles Gannett
B is for Betsy by Carolyn Haywood
Best Loved Doll by Rebecca Caudill
Betsy-Tacy by Maude Hart Lovelace
Paddington Bear series by Michael Bond
Old Mother West Wind by Thornton Burgess
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Raggedy Ann Stories by Johnny Gruelle
Milly Molly Mandy by Joyce Lankester Brisley
Teddy Robinson by Joan Robinson

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Friday, June 17, 2011

Happy Father's Day!

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