By: Lauri Lu,
on 8/8/2016
Cats are among some of the most popular pets in the world, and they’ve been so for thousands of years. In fact, there are more than two million cat videos on YouTube. In appreciation of our feline friends for World Cat Day on 8 August, we’ve put together a list of 12 little-known cat facts.
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By Marymaking
I got my jungle jaguar inspiration from Mary Making. She created her own jungle jaguar using paper collage and colored pencils. I love the mixed media approach, but we didn’t have time for watercolors to dry today.
I decided to go a step further and teach the kids how to create a foreground, middle and background using collage elements. But first, we created our jaguar close-ups with a guided drawing that explored blending and shading. So proud of how much the kids absorbed!
Maura’s jaguar drawing
Next the kids cut out their jaguars, and I gave them big construction paper to create their ‘background’ rain forest.
We used oil pastels and colored pencils to draw our jungle scene. Then we added the ‘middle ground’ or the middle of our scene, by collaging paper leaves and water. Finally we added the ‘foreground’ of our pictures, and glued our super-big jaguars and leaves in front.
The kids used their imaginations with the rain forest scenery, but we also had reference images for inspiration!
Dexter’s jungle jaguars are fighting!
By Thatcher, age 7
By Maura, age 6
By Dexter, age 10
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By: Mayra Calvani,
on 1/12/2009
Nothing Stops Noah
By Shari Lyle-Soffe
Illustrated by Kevin Scott Collier
Guardian Angel Publishing
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-935137-20-7
Print ISBN: 978-1-935137-19-1
Children’s picture book
4-8 year olds
Nothing Stops Noah is an adorable children’s book that young children will enjoy reading again and again.
Noah is a little but very determined boy. He wants to buy his mom a gift, but he doesn’t have any money. So he decides to call his grandpa, who owns a pet shop. Grandpa offers him a job: Noah must count the rawhide bones (no problem, since he can count to ten!) and feed the pets in their cages. Nothing too difficult… that is, until something goes wrong and the pet shop turns into havoc as the mice, puppies, kittens and other pets get free. But no adversity stops Noah—in fact, nothing stops Noah! Clever boy that he is, he comes up with various ways to restore order and earn his money.
Having reviewed all books by this author, I must say this one is different than her earlier works. In this book, the text is much shorter and as a consequence there’s an illustration in every page, whereas before the stories were longer with less artwork. In this book, the prose is very tight, making each word count. The illustrations by Kevin Scott Collier are wacky and amusing, perfectly complementing the story, and ones that children will take pleasure in looking at for a long time. Though whimsical, the book carries an important message, empowering youngsters to act with purpose toward their goals. Nothing Stops Noah is a winner!
Author’s website: http://www.sharilyle-soffe.com
Author’s blog: http://www.nothingstopsnoah.blogspot.com
Purchase from Guardian Angel Publishing: http://www.guardianangelpublishing.com/nothing-stops-noah.htm
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Sounds interesting!
Thanks for the review!