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Illustration of oldfashioned family sitting around a large table, heads bowed in prayer

Why, yes: I do like fall best. It is just the superior season. I won’t be entertaining arguments.

Sophie's Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller

Sharing the Bread: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Story by Pat Zietlow Miller

September 23, 2021 by NTE Leave a Comment

Some kids are quirky; Different. In Sophie’s Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller, Illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf, Sophie is one of those kids. Instead of letting the squash her parents bought at the farmer’s market be relegated to their dinner table, she decides instead that the squash is just the right size to love; to “bounce on her knee;” to give a face, name Bernice & become her constant companion. After a while, & many library trips, garden somersaults, baby bottles, hugs and kisses later, nature […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food Tagged With: Anne Wilsdorf, autumn, cbr13bingo, fall, jill mcelmurry, libations, pat zeitlow miller, Pat Zietlow Miller, Picture Books, sharing the bread, Sophie's Squash, sopie and the squash

NTE's CBR13 Review No:36 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food · Tags: Anne Wilsdorf, autumn, cbr13bingo, fall, jill mcelmurry, libations, pat zeitlow miller, Pat Zietlow Miller, Picture Books, sharing the bread, Sophie's Squash, sopie and the squash ·
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A Beautiful Little Story About Selflessness

February 12, 2017 by Halbs 4 Comments

I have two kids under two. A true Cannonballer, I read to them all the time. One of my favorite books to read out loud to them is Alice Schertle’s Little Blue Truck. My kids like the art and the county-song-rhythm of the prose (“Horn went ‘Beep!’ Engine purred. Friendliest sounds you ever heard.”) I do, too, and I hope my little ones absorb the book’s message of selflessness and kindness. I hope I learn that lesson, too! The book is about an old, flare-side farm […]

Filed Under: Children's Books Tagged With: Alice Schertle, jill mcelmurry

Halbs's CBR9 Review No:6 · Genres: Children's Books · Tags: Alice Schertle, jill mcelmurry ·
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