Posts Tagged ‘booktalks’
5
Dec
Posted by asuen in booktalks. Tagged: #bfyr, booktalks. Comments Off
Road Work Ahead
Due to technical difficulties (see below) this blog has moved to Booktalking. Please click here and sign up for a daily digest email of the Booktalking blog. It’s the widget on the right that says “Send me this blog via email.”
Q. Why are you moving your blog during the busy holidays?
A. Two reasons:
1. I’m being innundated by foreign language spam.
2. The Feedburner subscription service has locked me out.
This means that while others have found me (in a BIG way!) I can no longer find you. I can’t access my subscriber lists. I’ve had the same login since 2006, but Feedburner was sold to Google and now my passwords no longer work!
I have to START OVER.
1. I will consolidate ALL 8 blogs into 1 at Booktalking.
2. I will count down this week and next (from 10-1)…and then close this blog.
Please click here and sign up for a daily digest email of the Booktalking blog. It’s the widget on the right that says “Send me this blog via email.”
Thanks!
Anastasia
Copyright © 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
2
Dec
Posted by asuen in booktalks. Tagged: #bfyr, booktalks, Christmas, family, feelings, friends, toys. Comments Off
When I Love You at Christmas
by David Bedford (Author) and Tamsin Ainslie (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Christmas time is giving time, baking time and singing time. But best of all, it’s loving time!
Snippet:
When you make your cards
When you spell your words
That’s when I love you
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by Carol’s Corner
My NEW picture book is Road Work Ahead (Viking)
Copyright © 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
1
Dec
Posted by asuen in booktalks. Tagged: #bfyr, adventure, board books, booktalks, imagination. Comments Off
Star Trek Book of Opposites
by David Borgenicht (Author)
Booktalk: Explore strange new words! With the help of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and two dozen colorful pictures from across the galaxy, teach your children the meaning of big and little, hot and cold, apart and together, and much more!
Snippet: appear (and then, of course on the facing page…) disappear
My NEW picture book is Road Work Ahead (Viking)
Copyright © 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
30
Nov
Posted by asuen in booktalks. Tagged: #bfyr, adventure, booktalks, family, friends, sports, toys. Comments Off
Flicka, Ricka, Dicka and Their New Skates (Updated Edition with Paperdolls)
by Maj Lindman (Author, Illustrator)
Booktalk: A classic book is back! (The original copyright is 1950, and yes, I read ALL of them as a child. Who knew what those triplets from Sweden would do next?) This updated version has a Christmas story AND paper dolls in the back.
Snippet: Early one Christmas morning in Sweden, Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka opened their eyes. They sat up in bed.
My NEW picture book is Road Work Ahead (Viking)
Copyright © 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
28
Nov
Posted by asuen in booktalks. Tagged: #bfyr, biography, booktalks, history, imagination, music, Nonfiction Monday, picture book. 3 Comments
Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite
by Anna Harwell Celenza (Author) and Don Tate (Illustrator)
Booktalk: It’s a challenge to transform the Nutcracker Suite’s romantic orchestra into jumpin’ jazz melodies, but that’s exactly what Duke Ellington and his collaborator, Billy Strayhorn, did.
BONUS! CD recording included.
Snippet: “I want to challenge myself…create music that can’t be categorized,” answered Duke. “Got any ideas?”
**Don is one of my former students!**
This week’s Nonfiction Monday Round-up host is A Curious Thing
My NEW picture book is Road Work Ahead (Viking)
Copyright © 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
18
Nov
Posted by asuen in booktalks. Tagged: #bfyr, adventure, animals, booktalks, family, feelings, imagination, monsters, picture book, play, Poetry Friday, school. 1 Comment
When I Woke Up I Was a Hippopotamus
by Tom MacRae (Author) and Ross Collins (Illustrator)
Booktalk: A little boy transforms into different creatures as his moods change throughout the day, until finally he goes a little too far and discovers his parents have transformed too!
Snippet:
When I woke up I was a
Hippopotamus!
Yawning in the morning, I raised up my sleepy head,
then took one look out of the window
and got straight back into bed.
This week’s Poetry Friday Round-up is hosted by The Opposite of Indifference
My NEW picture book is Road Work Ahead (Viking)
Copyright © 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
17
Nov
Posted by asuen in booktalks. Tagged: #bfyr, animals, board books, booktalks, community, play, toys. Comments Off
Market Day!
by Victoria Roberts (Author) and Tomislav Zlatic (Illustrator)
Booktalk: Four 12-page board books in a carrying case that folds out for a pop-up market for the punch-out characters from each book. Learn about colors, shapes, opposites and numbers. Here is a taste of Miss Dog’s Shapes…
Snippet:
Hooray! Hooray! It’s Market Day!
And here’s the baker’s stall.
Miss Dog sells treats, all different shapes.
We want to try them all!
My NEW picture book is Road Work Ahead (Viking)
Copyright © 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
16
Nov
Posted by asuen in booktalks. Tagged: #bfyr, adventure, animals, booktalks, folktales, imagination, picture book. Comments Off
Joha Makes a Wish: A Middle Eastern Tale
by Eric A. Kimmel (Adapter) and Omar Rayyan (Illustrator)
Booktalk: On his way to Baghdad, Joha discovers a wishing stick. But how does it work? Joha makes some wishes–and the opposites come true.
Snippet: Joha held the wishing stick in his hand. He closed his eyes. “I wish I had a pair of red leather slippers.”
My NEW picture book is Road Work Ahead (Viking)
Copyright © 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
15
Nov
Posted by asuen in booktalks. Tagged: #bfyr, adventure, booktalks, folktales, imagination, magic, picture book. Comments Off
The Boy from the Dragon Palace
by Margaret Read MacDonald (Adapter) and Sachiko Yoshikawa (Illustrator)
Booktalk: One day, a poor flower sellers drops his leftover flowers into the sea as a gift for the Dragon King. What does he get in return? A little snot-nosed boy–with the power to grant wishes!
Snippet:
“He will bring you luck!” said the beautiful lady.
“But you must make shrimp for him every day.
Put in vinegar. Put in sugar.
He likes it like that.”
My NEW picture book is Road Work Ahead (Viking)
Copyright © 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
14
Nov
Posted by asuen in booktalks. Tagged: #bfyr, booktalks, chores, Nonfiction Monday, picture book. Comments Off
Job Site
by Nathan Clement (Author, Illustrator)
Booktalk: Bring in the big rigs! The bulldozer, the excavator, the loader and other heavy machinery all have important tasks to accomplish at the job site digging, lifting, carrying, dumping, moving, shaping.
Snippet: Boss says, “Level that pile!”
This week’s Nonfiction Monday Round-up host is Playing by the book
My NEW picture book is Road Work Ahead (Viking)
Copyright © 2011 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
