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By: [email protected] (Mark Blevis and Andrea ,
on 4/10/2009
Blog: Just One More Book Children's Book Podcast (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Poetry Friday, Non-Fiction, Careers, Arts, Architecture, Contributing/Industry, Bullying/Abuse, Culture/Traditions, childrens-book, Linda Ashman, S.D. Schindler, Come to the Castle!: A Visit to a Castle in Thirteenth-Century England, Review, Podcast, Community, Ages 4-8, Detailed, Formal, Picture book, Woman, Hardship, Fun, History, Ages 9-12, Poetry, Humour, Rhyming, Man, Add a tag
Author: Linda Ashman (on JOMB)
Illustrator: S. D. Schindler (on JOMB)
Published: 2009 Roaring Brook Press (on JOMB)
ISBN: 1596431555
Humour, grimaces, gluttony and grime cleverly deliver a bonanza of not-soon forgotten feudal facts in this rhyming rundown of Medieval careers.
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By: Lori Calabrese,
on 10/28/2008
Blog: Lori Calabrese Writes! (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: S.D. Schindler, Kevin Lewis, The Runaway Pumpkin, Add a tag
Runaway Pumpkin
Author: Kevin Lewis
Illustrator: S.D. Schindler
Publisher: Orchard Books (reprint edition: Aug. 2008)
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
"Once upon a hill, when the wind blew with a chill wandered Buck and Billy Baxter with their baby sister, Lil..."
If you love Halloween, pumpkins, pumpkin pie, and pumpkin bread, you'll enjoy this fun read-aloud that will have your tongue begging for a break! Buck and Billy Baxter cut the vine of an enormous pumpkin and down the hill it goes. The pumpkin crashes through the family farm, and it's Papa who comes up with the idea to use his tractor to dig a ditch to catch the gigantic pumpkin. If you catch a gigantic pumpkin, what do you do? Have Grandma make pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, etc... for a Halloween feast! This terrific tale will have you wanting more of this thumpin' bumpin' runaway pumpkin!
By: Just One More Book!!,
on 10/22/2008
Blog: Just One More Book Children's Book Podcast (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Hallowe’en, S.D. Schindler, The Ghost of Nicholas Greebe, Tony Johnston, Review, Podcast, Ages 4-8, Detailed, Formal, Picture book, Beautiful, Fun, Animal, Realistic, Man, Out-of-Print, childrens-book, Add a tag
Author: Tony Johnston
Illustrator: S.D. Schindler
Published: 1996 Penguin (on JOMB)
ISBN: 0140562672
Haunting, humour and expertly crosshatched seventeenth century detail make the moonlit migrations of a borrowed bone a slightly spooky Hallowe’en favourite.
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More Hallowe’en and October reading on JOMB:
- Rattlebone Rock
- Oh No, Not Ghosts
- Cinderella Skeleton
- Cat Magic
- Halloween Hoots and Howls
- Snowsong Whistling
- Pumpkin Soup
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