Giant Fleas, Tiny Old Horses, and Other News of the Week
We start off this week’s batch of science news with a story that has my cat Cozy digging furiously at his ear. Dinosaurs may have been covered in giant fleas. Ick ick ick.
Book Review: The McElderry Book of Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Last week I picked up a copy of The McElderry Book of Grimm’s Fairy Tales for The Four-Year-Old from our local library. I chose this book in part because of its attractive and not too scary illustrations, the relatively simple language and brevity of the stories inside, and the fact that the cover copy implied that this edition had been developed specifically for reading aloud.
Guess who climbed her first tree yesterday?
Hint: When she woke up this morning the first words out of her mouth were “Mommyo, have you made me a trophy for climbing my first…
Caterpickles Consults Grandpa: “Is the Auburn mascot a tiger or an eagle?”
Recently, The Four-Year-Old learned that the Auburn University football team has multiple fighting beasts associated with it. Naturally she wanted to know the difference between Aubie the tiger and Nova the War Eagle.
Feline Lullabies
As composed by The Four-Year-Old. Designed to be sung as loud as you can, preferably while petting an actual cat, if you can get any to…
The etiquette of meeting a Pharaoh
School Vacation Week is still going strong over here at Caterpickles Central. And as all Truly Relaxing Vacations require, we are keeping ourselves willfully blind to…
Book Review: Snow Friends
If I could give a book six stars, I’d give them to M. Christina Butler’s Snow Friends. My daughter made me read it three times in a row last night, and still couldn’t get enough (at one point I buried it under the stack of library books, while asking her to choose between two others for the next story–she dug through the stack, pulled this one out and pushed it onto my lap).
“Why do people throw their shoes on a wire?”
One afternoon as we were driving down Route 1, The Four-Year-Old noticed a ratty old pair of sneakers hanging from a telephone wire along the road.…
In which The Four-Year-Old discovers the pure unadulterated joy that is…
… a new-to-you pair of white leather cowboy boots. The Four-Year-Old, jumping up and down in the vintage store during the test run before purchase: “These…
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