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A friend  introduced me to "Mirror Mirror" by Marilyn Singer yesterday. This picture book features poetry with themes from fairy tales. Each poem includes a pair poem that is opposite order, line by line. With only a change in punctuation and capitalization, the meaning changes to an alternate or opposite of the first. My favorite may be "The Sleeping Beauty and the Wide-Awake Prince."Mirror Mirror Cover Art

"The Longest Night" by Marion Dane Bauer is a Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) 2009 choice book . The story is great...about gaining more hours of sunlight and moving from winter to spring, but the illustrations are what really grabbed me. Except for the final three illustrations, only the colors of ultramarine blue, Van Dyke brown, and the green shade of Windsor blue were used.

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Posted on April 2, 2010

What I'm Reading Now...

Maple Syrup Season book coverI'm reading the picture book for kids, Maple Syrup Season, written by Ann Purmell and illustrated by Jill Weber. As a child, I participated as my family collected maple sap and boiled it down to produce maple syrup. This book follows another family through the same process from tapping the trees to eating "sugar on snow!" I consider making maple syrup from time to time, however the 40 gallons of sap it takes to produce one gallon of maple syrup discourages me. I am always ready to read about this spring celebration though! -- Sue

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Posted on February 12, 2010
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