Posts Tagged ‘Julie Andrews’
Simeon’s Gift — Perfect Picture Book Friday
Since I interviewed one of the authors of this book, Emma Walton Hamilton, here on my blog on Wednesday, it seemed appropriate to share Simeon’s Gift today. In the interview, Emma mentioned that one of the books she and her mother have collaborated on had its origin in a story they wrote together when…
Read MoreEmma Walton Hamilton — Wednesday Worthy INTERVIEW
EMMA WALTON HAMILTON is a best-selling children’s book author, editor, educator and arts and literacy advocate. She has co-authored over twenty children’s books with her mother, Julie Andrews, six of which have been on the New York Times best-seller list, including The Very Fairy Princess series (#1 NY Times Bestseller), Julie Andrews’ Collection Of Poems, Songs And…
Read MoreImagination — Springboard into New Worlds
Something that has been lost, I think, in this era of online dictionaries, is the browsing, glancing, serendipitous discovery of a word that takes a person off on a flight of imagination, that sends one into another world, a world of the imagination, of “what if,” of “suppose it was this way.” If an online…
Read MoreV is for … Very Fairy Princess: Spotlight Worthy!
Yes, my Wednesday Worthy for In the Spotlight Week is none other than Geraldine, the Very Fairy Princess herself! (She assures me that fairy princesses are very comfortable in the spotlight.) Through the generosity of Emma Walton Hamilton and her co-author, as well as their publisher, Little, Brown & Co., Geraldine has graciously agreed to…
Read MoreHere Comes the Very Fairy Princess!
I decided I just HAVE to do an extra post today, to let you all know that the new book in Julie Andrews’ and Emma Walton Hamilton’s Very Fairy Princess series, The Very Fairy Princess: Here Comes the Flower Girl, is being released today! In conjunction with the book’s release, Julie Andrews, the Target Corporation,…
Read MoreDumpy the Dump Truck — Perfect Picture Book Friday
In Canada, today, January 27, 2012, is Family Literacy Day. What a great day to share a picture book written by members of a family! Title: Dumpy the Dump Truck Author: Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton Illustrator: Tony Walton Publisher: New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 2000.
Read MoreJulie Andrews Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies
A wonderful way to encourage children’s enjoyment of reading and being read to is to share poetry with them from an early age. My mother and I loved to recite poetry to and with each other, and we shared poetry together until her last days. In the last couple of years of her life,…
Read MoreThe Importance of the Arts in Raising Bookworms
I am a firm believer in the importance of the arts in children’s lives. That is perhaps readily recognizable through the tagline of my blog, “Writing, Reading, the Arts, and Life.” For me, those four things are inextricably entwined. Drama, dance, music, the visual arts – they all have the capacity to enhance a child’s…
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