Image Source: Sydney Morning Herald
It is Fairy Bread Day!
Make a plate of Fairy Bread and sit down with the young children in your family and
READ this book - it is simple perfect right to the last sentence!
This one is long out of print but Bob the Builder by Emily Rodda is so much fun to read aloud
(I almost know parts of the text off by heart) and the illustrations are fabulous by Craig Smith
The Birthday of Frances Hodgson Burnett is 24th November - she wrote one of my favourite books The Secret Garden. She also wrote A Little Princess (I talk about that in this post).
The author of Pinocchio Carlo Carllodi was born on 24th November, 1826.
Author Mordecai Gerstein who wrote the Jacob Two Two series also has a birthday.
Jacob Two Two meets the Hooded Fang was one of the very first book I read aloud to my Grade Three class in my first school back in 1984. I also own a cassette tape of the story! I might reread it over the coming weeks. The Book Wrangler posted an image of a calendar with author birthdays.
Gail Gibbons (1944) is on 24th November. I had not heard of her, but my friend has several of her nonfiction books in the library - she was an early creator of illustrated nonfiction and has produced hundreds of titles. She even has two books from long ago about Birthdays!
Gail Gibbons’s books are particularly accurate because she goes right to the source when researching a topic. She has been on the seventeenth floor of a skyscraper in progress, has spoken with truck drivers about the workings of their rigs, has dismantled every clock in her home, and would have donned scuba diving gear to research a sunken ship had the sea waters not been too turbulent. Gail says "I had a lot of ‘whys’ when I was a child. I guess I still do."
These are her recent Board Books
I think I need to FIND this one!
I have a Pinterest of Birthday picture books and a Pinterest of birthday card images. Here is a previous post about the topic of Happy Birthday and a few of my favourite Happy Birthday books to share:
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