Posts by Beth
Amelia Makes a Movie — Perfect Picture Book Friday
Title: Amelia Makes a Movie Author/Illustrator: David Milgrim Publisher: New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2008. Genre: Picture book, fiction
Read MoreReading Aloud to Older Adults and Isolated People — revisited
In the almost ten years (!) since I wrote this series of blog posts under the umbrella heading of “reading aloud to the elderly,” there have been many changes in the world. Terminology has changed, so that I’ve found it important to change the word “elderly” to older people, despite the fact that it…
Read MoreBlake Edwards, Director — Wednesday Worthy
There are 28 Blake Edwards DVDs on my shelf. 27 of those are productions he directed. For many of them, he wrote the screenplay. He acted in one, at the beginning of his career. Those DVDs represent only two-thirds of the movies Blake Edwards directed over the course of his amazingly diverse career. (Someday, I…
Read MoreWho Seeketh Beauty — Myra Stilborn, 1916-2012
Years ago, my first singing teacher brought out a piece of music and said, “The lyrics of this song were written by someone named Stilborn. Is she any relation to you?” Yes. My aunt (by marriage, but as close as blood in our hearts). The song, “Who Seeketh Beauty,” told of someone, who, seeking the…
Read MoreNo Foolin’! Punxsutawney Phyllis Visited Saskatchewan!
We’re taking a brief detour from Director’s Week because of the visit of a certain groundhog. As I mentioned when I reviewed Susanna Leonard Hill’s delightful picture book, April Fool, Phyllis! for Perfect Picture Book Friday a couple of weeks ago, Phyllis the Incredible RockStar Groundhog is currently on a World Tour. Not only is…
Read MoreInterview on Imagine! Create! Write!
Rebecca on her blog Imagine! Create! Write! has just posted an interview she did with me a little while ago. What a privilege to bracket this week with interviews! To read the interview, please click here — Imagine! Create! Write! (Sorry for the glitch earlier! The link now works.) Thanks, Rebecca!
Read MoreLlama Llama Red Pajama — Perfect Picture Book Friday
You knew this had to be my Perfect Picture Book this week, right? Title: Llama Llama Red Pajama Author/Illustrator: Anna Dewdney Publisher: New York: Viking, 2005
Read MoreWilliam at Stages Theatre — for the First Time!
I am honored to have another guest today. You had a teaser for this story yesterday, in Jennifer Kirkeby’s post about adapting Anna Dewdney’s Llama Llama Red Pajama as a stage musical. Today you get to read the story in its entirety. Nora Davis writes for the Hopkins, Minnesota Business & Civic Association newsletter. She…
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