When Mr. Popper’s Penguins hit the theaters this summer, instead of buying the family tickets, I hunted down a copy of the book. And it was only with great difficulty that I wrested that book away from The Four-Year-Old long enough to write this review.
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Cat and Crow tells the story of the surprising bond between Moses and Cassie, from the perspective of Wally and Ann Collito, the couple who eventually gave Cassie a permanent home in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.
Last weekend, the denizens of Caterpickles Central gathered in the playroom to watch The Lost World, the first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel of the same name.
When I Feel Angry is part of a series of books written by child psychologist Cornelia Maude Spelmen to help children identify and understand their emotions. We have others in the series, including When I Miss You, When I Feel Scared, and When I Care About Others, but the book about anger is the one I turn to most often.
Earlier this summer, I picked up the Little Labs Weather Beginner Experiment Kit. The idea behind the kit is appealing: a set of simple experiments to that kids can do to explore the science behind our weather. Unfortunately, the execution is uneven.
If you are like me, you know Patrick McDonnell mainly for his comic strip, Mutts, which records the adventures of Mooch the cat, his best friend Earl (a dog), and their human companions. But he also has several picture books, with whimsical art, simple text, and heart-warming stories to appeal to readers of all ages.
At the beginning of the summer, my daughter asked me where she could go to dig for dinosaur bones. We had visited the tracks at the Nash Dinosaur Track Site and Rock Shop as well as the Dinosaur Footprints at Holyoke, MA last fall, and my daughter wasn’t interested in simply going to see more footprints. She wanted bones. And she wanted to dig up least two of them, so that she could keep one for herself and give the other to the Museum of Science.
Signs posted around Jamaica Pond declare it to be part of Boston’s Emerald Necklace. For years, I had assumed from this that it was a man-made pond, dug under the direction of Frederick Law Olmsted. In fact, the 68-acre 53-foot deep kettle pond was carved out by glaciers millions of years before there was a Boston or a Frederick Law Olmsted to landscape it.
Somebody Else’s Nut Tree and Other Tales from Children is nearly unique on the Caterpickles bookshelves in that it does not contain stories written for children by adults, but stories told by children to adults. Or rather, one particular adult, Ruth Krauss.
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