Author #142: A lovely alphabet soup with Scott Gustafson

Join Scott Gustafson in Alphabet Soup: A Feast of Letters for a lovely little romp when otter invites all his friends for a house-warming, soup-making party.  This particular book was published in 1994 and is just one of many examples of Scott's fantastic art.   He just won the Spectrum Grand Master Fantastic Art award for 2015!   See more of his work  http://www.scottgustafson.com/

Sunday Randomness #201: Summertime, Summertime, Sum, Sum, Summertime!

One of our favorite drinks in the summer is lemonade and we have a new favorite recipe for lovely summertime lemonade thanks to a little book found in the JE section of the library.  Lulu's Lemonade  by Barbara deRubertis is a fantastic book to explain fractions in an easy to understand manner.  The lemonade recipe at the end of the book is marvelous!  I'm only showing a quart of the lemonade from a 2 gallon batch.  We've also made 3 gallon batches in the past-it's that good.

Recipe is 1/2 gallon lemonade, 1 qt orange juice, 1 pint lemon-lime soda, 1 cup lime juice, 1 TBSP vanilla and 1 tsp fresh mint leaves.  Mix and chill, then serve.

Author #141: Australian author Nick Bland tells us about The Very Cranky Bear

Once there was a very cranky bear.  The other animals tried to cheer him up by changing his looks to look more like them.  Does it work?  And does the plain sheep have anything to share?  Nick Bland shares a story of simplicity in this simple tale.

Author #140: Sangeeta Bhadra tames temper in this tetchy treatise

With text by Sangeeta Bhadra and illustrations by Marion Arbona, kids and adults alike can laugh and learn about how to control a pet temper in Sam's Pet Temper.  He finds the temper at the playground and together they learn how to appropriately handle temper.  Sam finds that a pet temper isn't the pet he thought it would be and is happy to let it go by the end of the story.

Author #139: McNamara and Karas playfully put poems in perspective

In A Poem in Your Pocket  by Margaret McNamara and illustrated by G. Brian Karas we learn about some different kinds of poems including acrostic and concrete. Elinor is excited about a famous poet coming to her school and sharing poems but then she can't write a poem to her liking and doesn't have one when the poet comes.  What will Elinor do?

 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/ Visit the poetry foundation for an explanation of poetry terms along with current poetry and news on poetry.  http://www.gbriankaras.com/ Read more about G. Brian Karas and see his art at his website.  More about author Margaret McNamara at: https://www.facebook.com/MargaretMcNamaraAuthor