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Happy Birthday to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who celebrates his 120th birthday today! 🌹
We discovered a wonderful Le Petit Prince channel on YouTube where you can learn about this beautiful & timeless fable, as well as watch wonderful retellings of the story (both in English,
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It’s Saturday Storytime & this wk we have added 3 more wonderful stories celebrating #Pride to our 'Celebrations & Holidays' playlist on YouTube (consider becoming a subscriber).
Please enjoy: “Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Pride Flag” by Rob Sanders,
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Then I got a letter back from his mother & she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
Today is Richard Scarry’s birthday! Scarry's most famous series of books feature wonderful animal characters living in Busytown. His books are still popular w/ kids everywhere. Over 100 million copies of his books have been sold, & have been translated into dozens of languages.
Colouring pages: https://t.co/bIHQHjrw3E
Activities and More: https://t.co/5RTfdZqmis
YouTube: https://t.co/TOmQwed7Rp
MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!
#bookstagram #keepreading #books4kids #maythefourthbewithyou ##starwarsday
We're seeing daily how the small act of one person can mean a great deal to another.
So we want to take a moment to acknowledge our amazing volunteers for all they do for us at The Children's Book Bank. We'd be lost without you.
#NationalVolunteerWeek2020
To get you started we’ve posted a few favs to our YouTube channel incl Dennis Lee, Sheree Fitch, Loris Lesynski & others: https://t.co/FM0gBFAzHy
Do you have a favourite poet or poem (Canadian or otherwise)?
#books4kids #keepreading #poetry
Today we're sharing a couple examples of his work & one extra by the Book Bank's Roxanne 😀
Follow this link for a fun activity and craft to experiment with haikus: https://t.co/cjyqdFMtvV
#books4kids #keepreading #haiku
following the publication of her first book, Mine for Keeps, in 1962. Almost blind since birth, she used much of her real-life experience as the basis for her writing. Her novels, picture books, & poetry treat with insight such universal themes as loneliness, alienation,