http://www.bookmakingwithkids.com For the Love of Reading, Writing & Art Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:00:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TURN THIS INTO A COLLAGE OF IMAGES, with text below. For myself, I'm apt to use the nearest scrap to hand—an old grocery list, a postcard, a receipt, a ticket stub, a playing card, an empty seed packet—to mark my place in a book. But for kids, bookmarks should be treated ... http://www.bookmakingwithkids.com/?p=1856 http://www.bookmakingwithkids.com/?p=1897 Unbelievably, today is the start of the 2010–2011 school year in the San Francisco public schools. You probably can tell by my choice of adverb that I hail from a time and place where school began after Labor Day and ended in late June. But not here. The school district's new ... http://www.bookmakingwithkids.com/?p=1950 You may think this is a picture of a cute white dog sprawled comfortably in the open pages of a book. And that, indeed, is what it is. It's equally true, however, that this is a picture of me. Not that I see myself as a dog! But this is ... http://www.bookmakingwithkids.com/?p=1947 If you give a mouse a cookie, you're sure to give a moose a muffin. Next you'll give a pig a pancake. Then you'll give a cat a cupcake. No doubt the mouse will go to school and the pig will have a party. In short, once you start reading ... http://www.bookmakingwithkids.com/?p=1896 I love quotations. And so do several million other souls, going by the multitude of quotation sites on the web. "By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote," to quote Ralph Waldo Emerson. The book of quotations collected by Amy Gash and pictured to the left appeared 11 years ago ... http://www.bookmakingwithkids.com/?p=1942