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Happy February! Hope you all enjoyed Valentine's Day and maybe even heard of or took part in International Book Giving Day, which happened on February 14th as well. I celebrated by donating a copy of the picture book Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World (by Laurie Lawlor and Laura Beingessner) to the library of a local elementary school named after Rachel Carson herself. It felt really good to be able to match a great picture book biography with a school that could truly appreciate it.
Jodie at Growing Book by Book is hosting another fun activity on February 25th that I'm going to take part it. It's a blog hop called "Booking Across America," in which Jodie has rounded up educational and children's literacy bloggers representing all 50 states. Each blogger will be posting about a picture book that is related in some way to his or her state and will provide an educational activity to go along with it. I'll be representing Maryland! Stay tuned...
But, before all the fun starts later this month, I wanted to publish the official call for submissions to the February Read & Romp Roundup here on my blog. If you have a recent (or even not so recent) blog post that involves picture books or children's poetry AND dance, yoga, or another form of movement, leave your link in a comment on this post. I'll round up all the links and post about them together in a few weeks. I'd love to hear from you!
Submissions are open until Thursday, February 28, 2013.
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By: Kerry Aradhya,
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Today I'm going to get right to business with the official call for submissions to the March Read & Romp Roundup! If you have a recent (or even not so recent) blog post that involves picture books or children's poetry AND dance, yoga, or another form of movement, leave a link to your post in the comments below. I'll gather up all of the links and summarize them in a new post in a few weeks. If you're new here or aren't familiar with the roundup, you can read some of the old ones here. Can't wait to hear all of your ideas!
Submissions are open until Saturday, March 30, 2012.
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By: Kerry Aradhya,
on 2/16/2013
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Happy February! Hope you all enjoyed Valentine's Day and maybe even heard of or took part in International Book Giving Day, which happened on February 14th as well. I celebrated by donating a copy of the picture book Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World (by Laurie Lawlor and Laura Beingessner) to the library of a local elementary school named after Rachel Carson herself. It felt really good to be able to match a great picture book biography with a school that could truly appreciate it.
Jodie at Growing Book by Book is hosting another fun activity on February 25th that I'm going to take part it. It's a blog hop called "Booking Across America," in which Jodie has rounded up educational and children's literacy bloggers representing all 50 states. Each blogger will be posting about a picture book that is related in some way to his or her state and will provide an educational activity to go along with it. I'll be representing Maryland! Stay tuned...
But, before all the fun starts later this month, I wanted to publish the official call for submissions to the February Read & Romp Roundup here on my blog. If you have a recent (or even not so recent) blog post that involves picture books or children's poetry AND dance, yoga, or another form of movement, leave your link in a comment on this post. I'll round up all the links and post about them together in a few weeks. I'd love to hear from you!
Submissions are open until Thursday, February 28, 2013.
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By: Kerry Aradhya,
on 12/16/2012
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The last few weeks have been a little crazy for me, but I finally have the November Read & Romp Roundup ready to share with you. Lots of picture books with winter and holiday themes this month, so I hope you'll enjoy the post. And thanks, as always, to everyone who contributed. I couldn't do this without you!
With Nutcracker season in full swing, Zoe at Playing by the Book shares reviews of two Nutcracker books for children. First is Ella Bella Ballerina and the Nutcracker, which is part of a wonderful series of ballet-themed books by James Mayhew. Zoe also reviews E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker, which is illustrated by Maurice Sendak and was just re-released this year. Both are gorgeous books!
Over at Picture-Book-a-Day, Amy reviews the 1993 Caldecott-winning picture book Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully. As the title implies, one of the themes of the book is high wire walking. See Amy's post to learn more about the book and some activities to go along with it, including movement activities to practice balance.
Amy also reviews the picture book biography Monsieur Marceau by Leda Schubert and Gerard DuBois. Born in France in 1993, Marceau is known not only as a famous mime but also as a person who helped save the lives of many Jewish children during World War II. Amy talks more about this interesting man, provides links to videos of mimes, and suggests movement activities to go with the book.
Amy always has great descriptions and ideas to go along with the books she highlights on Picture-Book-a-Day, and her post on Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring is no exception. Read her post to learn more about this book on the collaboration among dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, composer Aaron Copeland, and set designer Isamu Noguchi.
Angela at Omazing Kids is sharing multiple picture books on her blog this month, too! First up is her favorite moose book to use when she teaches yoga for kids -- Agate: What Good is a Moose? by Joy Morgan Dey and Nikki Johnson. Click here to read Angela's post, see images from the book, and find out which yoga poses they might inspire.
With Nutcracker season in full swing, Zoe at Playing by the Book shares reviews of two Nutcracker books for children. First is Ella Bella Ballerina and the Nutcracker, which is part of a wonderful series of ballet-themed books by James Mayhew. Zoe also reviews E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker, which is illustrated by Maurice Sendak and was just re-released this year. Both are gorgeous books!
Over at Picture-Book-a-Day, Amy reviews the 1993 Caldecott-winning picture book Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully. As the title implies, one of the themes of the book is high wire walking. See Amy's post to learn more about the book and some activities to go along with it, including movement activities to practice balance.
Amy also reviews the picture book biography Monsieur Marceau by Leda Schubert and Gerard DuBois. Born in France in 1993, Marceau is known not only as a famous mime but also as a person who helped save the lives of many Jewish children during World War II. Amy talks more about this interesting man, provides links to videos of mimes, and suggests movement activities to go with the book.
Amy always has great descriptions and ideas to go along with the books she highlights on Picture-Book-a-Day, and her post on Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring is no exception. Read her post to learn more about this book on the collaboration among dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, composer Aaron Copeland, and set designer Isamu Noguchi.
Angela at Omazing Kids is sharing multiple picture books on her blog this month, too! First up is her favorite moose book to use when she teaches yoga for kids -- Agate: What Good is a Moose? by Joy Morgan Dey and Nikki Johnson. Click here to read Angela's post, see images from the book, and find out which yoga poses they might inspire.
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without the Grinch, right? For Angela at Omazing Kids, it seems that Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without the Grinch AND yoga! Check out her blog post on How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which includes yoga poses to go with the book, printable yoga cards, and links to other winter-themed posts on her blog.
Last but not least, Maria from Maria's Movers shares movement ideas to go along with the classic picture book The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. Her imaginative post will give you plenty of ideas for allowing your little ones to experience the snow, whether or not there is actually snow where you live!
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Not sure how to submit a book, but I just finished using "Z is for Moose" and it was delightful!
Here is what I wrote on Amazon for a review.
Z is for Moose - a great book to use for Kids Yoga!, March 16, 2013
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Gail PickensBarger "Gail Pickens-Barger, E-RYT" (Beaumont, Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Z Is for Moose (Hardcover)
Z is for Moose. Great book to use with Kids Yoga! This ABC book to use in reading the story out loud, then acting out the A, B, C animals in the book with yoga poses. It's great when moose tries to take over the other letters, and has great humor it the story line. I supplemented the book/storytelling with ABC Yoga for Kids Card deck, so that we could further act out animal poses for the letters. For example, the letter U, is Umbrella in the book, but I had the kiddos pick out cards from my yoga deck, and instead of acting out Umbrella, we acted out Unicorn instead. Worked very well for ages 4 - 12.
YogaKiddos with Gaileee [...]
Hi, Gail. Thanks so much for stopping by. I just saw that you posted about Z is for Moose on one of your blogs, and I was so happy to see it! I will definitely include your post in the roundup. I'm actually going to meet Paul O. Zelinski, who illustrated the book, at a writing conference this weekend. I'm super excited!
Hi Kerry-
I miss taking part in your round ups now that I'm focusing on chapter books! So I went through my early Picture-Book-a-Day posts and found two reviews I don't think I put into one of your round ups. :)
http://picturebookaday.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-21-hop-jump-by-ellen-stoll-walsh.html
http://picturebookaday.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-24-brontorina-by-james-howe.html
Well, that is really exciting!
The kiddos, grandkiddos, parents and grandparents really enjoyed the family yoga class that I did with this story book. The kids kept on the lookout for moose, and were really surprized with the M for mouse selection. And the had empathy for the moose when he was sad. The writing and the illustration worked very well together.
How do these authors and illustrators team up so well? How do they storyboard to each other? I'm very curious about the process. Thanks!
Gail Pickens-Barger
Thanks! The family yoga participants really enjoyed the book. Especially when they were expecting M for Moose and got M for Mouse. The kiddos really had empathy for the moose, when he didn't get letter M, and were hunting the rest of the pictures for the Moose reaction.
The writing and illustrations really complemented each other. I'm curious how the writers and illustrators story board each other, and this whole process of creating a childrens (and now, Yoga story book) book.
I used to work weekends at an independent book store in Ponca City Oklahoma, called Brace Books and More. Best bookstore you'd ever find. And you know.....I don't think I ever came home with any salary from that place.....ah....books!!
Gail Pickens-Barger
I miss you in the roundups, too, Amy! If you want, I can include one of these in the March roundup and one in the April roundup....so you can be involved in both :) I love Brontorina, by the way. Haven't read your Ellen Stoll Walsh selection yet, though!
Hi Kerry - I'd love to share The Very Hungry Caterpillar: http://omazingkidsllc.com/2013/03/02/celebrate-the-very-hungry-caterpillar-day-with-kids-yoga/. Love all of your posts & the roundup!
I also have one for Dr. Seuss' ABC's: http://omazingkidsllc.com/2013/02/21/big-a-little-a-a-dr-seuss-abcs-alphabet-extravaganza-kids-yoga-early-literacy/
There's also one for Perfect Square: http://omazingkidsllc.com/2013/02/14/perfect-square-a-perfect-book-for-kids-yoga/..... I forgot to hop by to participate in last month's roundup.... feel free to spread these out & include them in whatever roundups you would like :)
Hi Kerry, Thanks for hosting. We have a great book to share.. one of our very favorites! Its called "Goal!"
http://www.stackingbooks.com/?p=1323
-Reshama
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Yeah!! So glad you joined again, Reshama. I used to watch soccer games in college sometimes, and it is such a beautiful sport when you really focus on the movement :)
Hi, Angela. I almost reminded you about the roundup last month, but I didn't want to be a pest :) So glad you are here this month! I'll probably post one or two of your posts for March and save the other one or two for a later month. Looking forward to reading all three now, though!
That would be wonderful! Great idea!
Hi again, Gail! So awesome that you worked at a bookstore at one point. I would go home with too many books if I did that, too! So, I met Paul O. Zelinski, and I even told him that you are using the book for yoga classes. He was really excited!!
A lot of people don't know this, but the author and illustrator of a picture book rarely interact at all! The illustrator works with the text, makes the story his or her own, and sometimes even adds storylines that you can only follow through the illustrations. In Z is for Moose, Paul talked about how he gave some of the cast members of the book little toys to hold (which started with the same letter as the cast member). You can see it in the front pages of the book, and then I think at least in one instance, one of the toys ends up on another page.
Authors and editors can give illustration notes to the illustrator, though, which is what happened with Z is for Moose. Paul actually talked about it some at the conference. He also said that in some cases, he asked if he could change a few of the cast members to different objects/animals. I can't remember which ones offhand, but he did get permission to change them.
It's been super fun interacting with you here. Hope we can chat about picture books more later :)
Here you go, friend! Post for Cindy Moo. It's a mighty-fine, bovine time! JG
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Thanks, Jayne!!