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A to Z Challenge Day 9:  I  5 stars I’m Not Tired Yet! has six-year-old Ralphie inventing every excuse to delay his bedtme.  His perceptive mom, however, sees his stalling as her invitation to engage Ralphie in a silly series of kisses, hugs, pinches, and pokes—all inspired by his favorite animals and each leaving the [...]

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Do you have a problem with sex? Perhaps you need to see a sex therapist. After a few sessions, you might become a new person. Here are fifteen fortune cookie sayings from sex therapists:

1. At work, at play, and in the bed, life has its ups and downs.
2. Keep your two girlfriends away from going to the same restaurant unless you like to live your life dangerously.
3. Remember to keep your thoughts clean and your sheets clean at the same time.
4. Go to your grocery store and buy a lot of vegetables, particularly cucumbers. You are going to have a very exciting evening tonight.
5. Two’s company, but four makes for an extremely stimulating night.
6. Despite all your cosmetic surgeries, your heart is still true. Time to bring pleasure to your new body parts.
7. It is difficult to have a moist erotic kiss if your lips are severly chapped.
8. Condemn violence, but use a condom when having sex.
9. If you have an affair, make it count for everything you got because if you are discovered, you will lose everything you got.
10. Sex is like fireworks. It can be very explosive, but can also have its duds.
11. You cannot substitute pills for love. However, they do have interesting side effects.
12. Your passion will flow like a raging river. You are under a flood watch tonight.
13. A little music and a little food will put your partner in the right mood. But a little gas will swiftly burn out the flames of desire.
14. Give your honey a great big hug. Sorry, your honey has the flu. Now your hug has given you the bug.
15. Embrace your lover, but never lock braces together.

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Do you have a problem with sex? Perhaps you need to see a sex therapist. After a few sessions, you might become a new person. Here are fifteen fortune cookie sayings from sex therapists:

1. At work, at play, and in the bed, life has its ups and downs.
2. Keep your two girlfriends away from going to the same restaurant unless you like to live your life dangerously.
3. Remember to keep your thoughts clean and your sheets clean at the same time.
4. Go to your grocery store and buy a lot of vegetables, particularly cucumbers. You are going to have a very exciting evening tonight.
5. Two’s company, but four makes for an extremely stimulating night.
6. Despite all your cosmetic surgeries, your heart is still true. Time to bring pleasure to your new body parts.
7. It is difficult to have a moist erotic kiss if your lips are severly chapped.
8. Condemn violence, but use a condom when having sex.
9. If you have an affair, make it count for everything you got because if you are discovered, you will lose everything you got.
10. Sex is like fireworks. It can be very explosive, but can also have its duds.
11. You cannot substitute pills for love. However, they do have interesting side effects.
12. Your passion will flow like a raging river. You are under a flood watch tonight.
13. A little music and a little food will put your partner in the right mood. But a little gas will swiftly burn out the flames of desire.
14. Give your honey a great big hug. Sorry, your honey has the flu. Now your hug has given you the bug.
15. Embrace your lover, but never lock braces together.

Yolen, Jane. 2008. Mama's Kiss. Illustrated by Daniel Baxter.

Rhyming fun about kisses? And it's by Jane Yolen? It's got to be good! This one is fun and playful. The rhyming is quite good--as opposed to some others that are hit and miss--and the subject is just right for sharing with little ones.

Here's how it starts off:

Mama smiles and throws me kisses,
Most land right, but one kiss misses.
Mama says she'll throw another,
It sails off toward Baby Brother.
Baby burps, the kiss goes wide,
Through the window and outside....

Where this kiss goes next....you'll have to read for yourself and see. This book is similar to another one that I read this year. The title of that one I can't quite remember on the spot. But I liked this one even better.

© Becky Laney of Young Readers

Another review of First Kiss (Then Tell) edited by Cylin Busby and here’s my story’s mention:

Hands down favorite for sheer grossness (it was so gross it was funny!) was Justine Larbalestier’s “Pashin’”, a tale of her friend’s first kiss.

I am the grossest of them all.

Cecilia’s Year
Author: Susan Gonzales Abram and Denise Gonzales Abram
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN-10: 1933693029
ISBN-13: 978-1933693026

Cecilia’s Year covers the life of a 14 year old Mexican-American girl who lives on a ranch in New Mexico during the Depression era.

Cecilia is smart, bookish and determined in her quiet way to follow her dreams. One of those dreams is going to high school instead of marrying and being a stay at home wife and mother as is expected of girls in that era. The book is set up with each chapter dedicated to a different month on the ranch with rich cultural details and a profound sense of community. The family and friends Cecilia has surrounding her are all very definite personalities and each feels real and true.

Cecilia’s Year has a down home feel to it with a strong Mexican flavor. Even though I grew up decades after Cecilia did and in the city, most of the core values, the family she lives with, the dichos (sayings) and food they eat is much like what I grew up with in my Mexican home. Some things always remain the same. The book really resonated with me for those reasons as well as being a great and engrossing story. You just have to love Cecilia and root for her. You hope she gets everything she dreams of and that’s the magic of reading a book like this – you end up really caring about the characters. They become real to you. Cecilia’s story is heartfelt and lovely.

The book is a tribute to the author’s mother and a note at the end tells what happened to the real Cecilia. Sepia toned photos are included as well as a glossary of Spanish dichos.

Cecilia’s Year
Author: Susan Gonzales Abram and Denise Gonzales Abram
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN-10: 1933693029
ISBN-13: 978-1933693026

Cecilia’s Year covers the life of a 14 year old Mexican-American girl who lives on a ranch in New Mexico during the Depression era.

Cecilia is smart, bookish and determined in her quiet way to follow her dreams. One of those dreams is going to high school instead of marrying and being a stay at home wife and mother as is expected of girls in that era. The book is set up with each chapter dedicated to a different month on the ranch with rich cultural details and a profound sense of community. The family and friends Cecilia has surrounding her are all very definite personalities and each feels real and true.

Cecilia’s Year has a down home feel to it with a strong Mexican flavor. Even though I grew up decades after Cecilia did and in the city, most of the core values, the family she lives with, the dichos (sayings) and food they eat is much like what I grew up with in my Mexican home. Some things always remain the same. The book really resonated with me for those reasons as well as being a great and engrossing story. You just have to love Cecilia and root for her. You hope she gets everything she dreams of and that’s the magic of reading a book like this – you end up really caring about the characters. They become real to you. Cecilia’s story is heartfelt and lovely.

The book is a tribute to the author’s mother and a note at the end tells what happened to the real Cecilia. Sepia toned photos are included as well as a glossary of Spanish dichos.