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1. KBWT

Who can think about Kids Book Website Tuesday when the phone keeps ringing and I have to make nametags for StoryFUSION and I haven't collected enough media cords for my workshop yet?????

I can!!  Ta Ra Ta Ra!  I can think about Kids Book Website Tuesday.  Of course, right now my favorite KBW is Battle of the Books.  DUH!!  With amazingness happening at every cliff-hanging turn!  Today, Judge Jewel Parker Rhodes chose Drawing from Memory to move to the semi-finals.  I have hope for Inside Out and Back Again to rise from the dead in the final round.

I was hoping to share a Reading Rainbow site but since the show was taken off, PBS no longer hosts a site for it.  But, never fear, Reading Rainbow fans.  I have heard from very credible sources that Reading Rainbow will come out with an app for your iPhones this Spring!!!  YAY!  Take a look!  It's in a book!  Reading Rainbow.

Here you go.  Stone Soup, the magazine, has been publishing stories, poems and drawings of young people for decades.   So Stone Soup, though not actually a book website, is my choice for this week's Kids Book Website.  Sample the writings of children and teens.  This magazine never publishes the work of grown-ups.  NEVER!  Stone Soup is Peter Pan's favorite reading material, I've been led to believe.  I'm sure that's true.

Make sure you check out the video on the magazine's home page.  Very cool.


Back to BoB: Tomorrow, Life: an Exploded Diagram goes up against  Wonderstruck.  My first lackluster prediction is that Wonderstruck  will head to the next round.  But Chris Lynch is the judge and that changes things.  Must....think... ... ... I am going to predict Wonderstruck.  Just because I feel I should predict something.  Is that lackluster enough for you?  Both good books.  Both worthy opponents.  Just not A Monster Calls.

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2. NATIONAL SOUP MONTH!


I love it! It is National Soup Month. Speaking for myself, I love soup, especially during cold weather. First of all soup is so versatile. I couldn't begin to guess how many different soups there are for our pleasure. Soup warms you from the inside out on a cold day.

I had a neighbor years ago who refused to feed her family soup, canned or homemade, she thought soup was worthless. Can you imagine??  I actually felt sorry for her family.


Soup can actually be a family project. Read "Stone Soup" to your children. It is a wonderful story about the value of sharing. After you have read the story take the kids to the local market and have each member pick out something to put in your own version of Stone Soup (Nix on the chocolate bars, marshmallows, etc. They may need a little bit of supervision but not too much.) When you get home have each member of the family prepare their ingredient to go into the pot. You may want to start with some prepared stock or broth. Choose some tasty toppers: shredded cheese, crumbled bacon, sliced scallions, a dollop of sour cream, use your imagination. Serve it with: crackers, hard rolls, bread sticks, tortillas or sandwiches if you wish.

If this doesn't appeal to you try this Stone Soup Recipe from the Food Network.

Have a soup party to celebrate National Soup Month! Invite your friends for a soup potluck. Have each guest or family bring a crockpot of their favorite soup. Ask them the bring a few copies of the recipe for those who might want to make it themselves. You can provide the toppers and go alongs. Provide bowls and mugs (plenty of spoons too) so everyone can try them all. Ask the guests to bring a can of food or non perishable food item to be donated to the local food pantry.

A soup party would be a good fund raising event for your church congregation to help the homeless or other helpful organizations. Maybe your church could start a food pantry. My church did this a few years ago, starting in a shed behind the church, and is now serving over 2,000 people from a building they purchased from donations.

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3. Poetry Friday: The Child Poet

Can children write poems?  Of course!  It’s true we don’t normally associate children with writing poetry so much as we do with reading it (or reading it to them,) but children can often display a knack for the language that is fresh and startling.  Witness the work of young New Zealand poet, Laura Ranger in this excerpt from ‘Two Word Poem’:

The toad sat on a red stool

it was a toadstool.

The rain tied a bow

in the cloud’s hair

it was a rainbow.

Which witch put sand

in my sandwich?

Laura was seven when she wrote this.  Precocious to be sure, the poetry nontheless remains delightfully childish at the same time.  I discovered Laura Ranger’s work in a little book called Laura’s Poems tucked away in the back corner of a children’s bookstore in Wigtown, Scotland.  Published in 1995 by a small press called Godwit Publishing Ltd. in New Zealand, the book is likely out-of-print and hard to acquire.  What struck me about Laura’s book was not so much the precocity of the verse, but her genuinely child-like desire and ability to express herself in words.  Laura apparently wrote out her poems in hand first, and then revised them on a word-processor.  Computer technology enabled her to edit which then led to her improving on her initial hand-written impressions.  And remember this was 1995!  Today, many children have ready access to computers or some even with hand-held devices that allow them to record and edit their words should they have a desire as deep as Laura’s to observe the world and write about it.

Does your child like to write poetry?  If so, where can they find outlets to see their words in print?  Laura published her poems in the American children’s magazine, Stone Soup.  And currently in Britain, there is a poetry contest for young writers called the Foyle Young Poets Award with a deadline for submissions of July 31, 2009.

Today’s Poetry Friday host is Carol at Carol’s Corner.

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