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11/17/2023 0 Comments Teacher’s Pets #4 The Sundae Scoop THE SUNDAE SCOOP by Stuart J. Murphy, illustrated by HarperCollins Publishers 0-06-028925-2 $16.89 Ages 6 and Up Reposted from Donna O'Donnell Figurski's Blog. My Review Most kids love ice cream. They love as it drips down their fingers and smears their noses and they love to swirl their tongues around its creamy flavor. So what could be more fun than making ice cream sundaes for the school picnic? In The Sundae Scoop written by Stuart J. Murphy, Emily, Lauren, and James decide to do just that. They take chocolate and vanilla ice cream, add caramel and hot fudge sauces and two toppings to make a variety of different sundae combinations But when Emily wonders exactly how many combinations they can make, Winnie, the cafeteria lady, pulls out her chalkboard to demonstrate. The use of the chalkboard, as a graphic organizer, makes this difficult math concept easy for youngsters to understand. What a clever technique by Murphy to combine reading fun with math skills. Cynthia Jabar’s bright, perky illustrations combined with Murphy’s yummy story make this a very inviting book. (This review was originally published to SmartWriters, which is now defunct.) ******* Kid's Review FROM the MOUTHS of KIDDLE CRITers: a critique group (Disclaimer: Names of child reviewers have been changed for privacy.) “I liked the book because it was using math and numbers,“ said Pritka. “It was kind of like math,” agreed Annie. “When they were spilling stuff, they were subtracting. And they were always spilling stuff.” she giggled. “I think they were a little clumsy.” “It would be fun to have something like that at our school,” said Lucy. “Everyone would come.” Juan’s eyes lit up. “That’s a super duper idea,” he said. “Yeah, we could make ice cream sundaes . . . just like they did in the book,” said Zach. Lucy thought for a moment. “But, it would be hard to decide which flavors to have,” she said. “How about Toenail-Fingernail Twist?” said Zach with an impish grin. “Ewww.” groaned Meg and bopped him on the head with her paper. “We could make the largest ice cream sundae ever,” said Annie. “And . . . I want a banana and two cherries on mine.” “This book is making me hungry,” said Zach. “Me too,” agreed Keisha. Then Juan stated it very simply, “I like this book because I like ice cream. ******* TEACHER TALK - Lessons LANGUAGE ARTS FUN Brainstorm a list of ice cream flavor words. Record on chart paper. strawberry peach vanilla chocolate mint banana Brainstorm a list of ice cream words. Record on chart paper. swirl twirl cluster crunch ripple chip Now be inventive. Mix and match the words on the two charts to make some new combinations. For added fun have children work in small groups. strawberry . . . . swirl peach . . . . . . . crunch Go a step farther. Brainstorm a list of weird words. Record on chart paper. liver garbage pickles squirrel mustard Now be even more inventive. Mix and match the three charts to make some very unusual combinations. chocolate . . . . . liver . . . . .dip . . . . chocolate liver dip strawberry . . . . squirrel . . .swirl . . . strawberry squirrel swirl banana . . . . . . garbage . . crunch . .banana garbage crunch orange . . . . . . .mustard . . cluster . .orange mustard cluster mint . . . . . . . . .pickle . . . .ripple . . .mint pickle ripple What a delicious way to increase vocabulary. SUNDAE VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT Make a set of flash cards using the words in the LANGUAGE ARTS FUN lesson. Write ice cream words on each card. Use these cards as flash cards. Children take turns flashing the card to other children who read the word. This is a great example of kiddles teaching kiddles. SUGGESTED BOOKS If you like The Sundae Scoop, you may also like the following books. Ice Cream by Elisha Cooper (find out how ice cream is made) Wemberly’s Ice Cream Star by Kevin Henkes (for the board book crowd) SUGGESTED WEBSITES For a list of wild ice cream flavors visit these sites: Goodrich Ice Cream Menu Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream – Our Flavors Hotlicks Ice Cream Flavors ******* As I say after each post: I hope you will visit often. There’s something here for every reader. Enjoy. And DON'T forget to subscribe. If you enjoy Bookity Blog, please pass it on to all your friends and they to theirs. (I’d like to drive up the readership. Sometimes it feels like I am writing in a vacuum. So go ahead. Send it to 10 of your friends.) If you hate my blog, go ahead and send it to your enemies. (10 enemies would be good.) I won’t mind. (Clip Art compliments of Bing.)
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 Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows by Katy S. Duffield illustrated by Steve Gray Rising Moon ISBN 0-87358-825-8 $15.95 Ages 4-8 Reposted from Donna O'Donnell Figurski's Blog. My Review The milk cows on Farmer McPeepers’ farm are simply up to NO good. I mean, have you ever seen milk cows fishing from a row boat, jumping double Dutch rope, skateboarding, or flying kites? “Outrageous!” you say. “Ridiculous! Impossible!” Well then, would you believe milk cows playing a fiddle, do-si-do-ing, or waiting in line at the local movie house? Yep! Down by Farmer McPeepers’ farm you’ll see all this and more. So go on. Open Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows. But try not to laugh. I dare you! This review can also be seen on: SmartWriters Katy S. Duffield’s story about Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows coupled with Steve Gray’s quirky illustrations make this new picture book a delightful addition to any young reader’s library. (This review was originally published to SmartWriters, which is now defunct.) ******* Kid's Review FROM the MOUTHS of KIDDLE CRITers: a critique group (Disclaimer: Names of child reviewers have been changed for privacy.) “Cows can’t really do all that stuff,” says seven year old Hannah. Jake nods in agreement. “It’s just not true. Cows can’t walk on their legs. They can’t swim and they surely can’t skateboard!” Then he starts laughing. “But that’s why the story’s so funny.” Meg squints just like Farmer McPeepers. She’s thinking. Meg’s always thinking. Then she says, “Farmer McPeepers is silly. He should have put on his glasses. Then he would have seen his missing milk cows.” “It’s only make believe,” says Lucy. “The author was using her imagination.” “The illustrator’s mind must have been going crazy,” added Roberto. “The pictures are wacky.” ******* SUGGESTED BOOKS If you like Farmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows, you may also like the following books. The Cow Who Wouldn’t Come Down by Paul Brett Johnson. Back at the Ranch by Trinka Hakes Noble, illustrated by Tony Ross. Farmer John Shears His Sheep by Teri Sloat, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin, illustrated by Betsy Lewin. ******* As I say after each post: I hope you will visit often. There’s something here for every reader. Enjoy. And DON'T forget to subscribe. If you enjoy Bookity Blog, please pass it on to all your friends and they to theirs. (I’d like to drive up the readership. Sometimes it feels like I am writing in a vacuum. So go ahead. Send it to 10 of your friends.) If you hate my blog, go ahead and send it to your enemies. (10 enemies would be good.) I won’t mind. (Clip Art compliments of Bing.) 11/10/2023 0 Comments Teacher's Pets #1 A Mud Pie for Mother A Mud Pie for Mother by Scott Beck Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers 0525470409 $14.99 Ages 3 to 6 Reposted from Donna O'Donnell Figurski's Blog My Review Shop! Shop! Shop ‘til you drop! Race from store to store. Search for the “perfect” gift. Sound familiar? We all do it. In A Mud Pie for Mother, written and illustrated by Scott Beck, Little Pig searches the farm for the perfect birthday present for his mother. When I was Little Pig’s age, I searched for the perfect gift, too. I dashed through the dime store aisles, two quarters, (my whole allowance) clutched in my hand, hunting for the best gift for Mother’s Day. I found it . . . an orange paisley accordion-pleated apron. It was beautiful! Little Pig found beautiful presents too, a little flower, a bit of hay, a few seeds, even a clump of dirt . . . all perfect gifts! His mother would love them. But when Little Pig realized that they belonged to his farm friends, he wouldn’t take them. It just wouldn’t be right. Imagine Little Pig’s sadness as he headed home empty-handed. But to his surprise Little Pig’s friends each gave him a special gift for his mother. Children will delight in this story as Little Pig is rewarded for his kindness. They will see that although doing the right thing is not always easy, it is best. Scott Beck’s simple illustrations nearly “pop” off the page. Then they draw you right back onto the farm. Beck presents a sweet and gentle story with which children will easily identify. I mean . . . what child has not searched for the perfect present? Remember macaroni-studded picture frames and yarn-covered, frozen-orange-juice pencil holders . . . made and presented with love. PERFECT! (This review was originally published to SmartWriters, which is now defunct.) ******* Kid's Review FROM the MOUTHS of KIDDLE CRITers: a critique group (Disclaimer: Names of child reviewers have been changed for privacy.) “The pig wanted to give something to his mother for her birthday,” said Philippe. “Yeah, Little Pig wanted to give things to his mom just like in real life,” said Kiley. “He went to the bee and the cow and the hen and the old grandma.” “Because they all had something special,” interrupted Greg. “But even though Little Pig wanted to take them, (flower, hay, seeds, dirt) he didn’t.” “Right!” said Emma. “He was nice enough to not take them. So when he came back everyone gave him something.” “He got rewarded,” said Pritka with a smile. “Yeah,” said Greg. “Little Pig listened to the farmer’s wife and she rewarded him.” “And every time the pig passed by the animals, they gave Little Pig some things, too,” said Philippe. “I think the girl farmer and the animals respected the pig,” said Emma. “Emma ‘s right,” said Greg. “But even if the pig couldn’t get a present,” said Emma. “His mother would still love him.” Roberto nodded. “Yeah, what really matters is loving,” he said. “This book shows how to be kind,” said Annie. “And the pig was very kind,” said Pritka. “I think Little Pig was generous, too,” said Annie. “Yeah,” said Treska. “The moral of the story is don’t take. They’ll give it to you.” Then she grinned. “Then you don’t get in trouble and you feel better too.” “I liked this book,” said Emma. “I think that Little Pig’s mother wouldn’t really care if he didn’t give her anything because love is the biggest present of all.” ******* TEACHER TALK - Lessons IS THERE AN ECHO IN HERE? Discuss echoic words . . . words that make their own sounds. Start with the words from the book. List them on chart paper. Buzz, Moo, Grunt, Cluck, Squawk Have children act out each animal sound. As you read other books to the children, alert them to be on the lookout for additional echoic words and add these words to the list. A great book to start with is Too Much Noise by Ann McGovern. This book includes many additional animal sounds, as well as fun words like swish and hiss. Make a list of the farm animals in the story. Pig, Bee, Cow, Hen Continue the list by adding as many farm animals as the children can think of. ******* VOCAB/FLASH Make flash cards of the animal names and animal sounds. Cow – Moo, Sheep – Baa, Pig – Oink, Children flash the cards to each other for reading/vocabulary practice. When a child successfully reads a card, he/she keeps the card and scores a point. The child with the most cards wins. ******* MAKE-A-MATCH GAME Use the same set of cards as for VOCAB/FLASH. (Actually, I prefer to make a separate set, which allows me to have two groups working on an activity at the same time.) Shuffle all cards and place them face down on playing surface. Children play in teams or individually against each other. They take turns turning over two cards to make a match. Ex. Sheep – Baa (yes) Sheep – Oink (no) The child or team with the most matching cards wins. ******* DISCUSSION Have children talk about what they would have done if they were in Little Pig’s hooves? Have children discuss how they think Little Pig was feeling. worried, annoyed, angry, sad, frustrated SUGGESTED WEBSITES (Although I examined this website and found it to be very helpful, please use it at your own discretion.) Pig - National Geographic Kids 17 Facts About Pigs for Kids in 2023 (Surprising & Fun Facts) ******* SUGGESTED BOOKS If you like A Mud Pie for Mother or books about pigs, you may also like the following books. If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond Pigs by Robert N. Munsch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko The True Story of the Three Pigs by Jon Scieszka, illustrated by Lane Smith ******* As I say after each post: I hope you will visit often. There’s something here for every reader. Enjoy. And DON'T forget to subscribe. If you enjoy Bookity Blog, please pass it on to all your friends and they to theirs. (I’d like to drive up the readership. Sometimes it feels like I am writing in a vacuum. So go ahead. Send it to 10 of your friends.) If you hate my blog, go ahead and send it to your enemies. (10 enemies would be good.) I won’t mind. (Clip Art compliments of Bing.) 11/10/2023 0 Comments Teacher - Writer Ahhh . . . THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
AS A TEACHER: I read tons of books to my class. We loved to discuss them. As soon as I finished reading a book and the clapping had ceased, I’d ask. “Well, what did you notice?” Marc Brown hid his children’s names, Tolen, Tucker, and Elisa in the illustrations of his “ARTHUR” books. Tomie DePaola usually placed a little pink heart or a small white dove on every page of his books, example STREGA NONA. In THE NAPPING HOUSE by Audrey & Don Wood, it’s always fun to watch the circular movement of the mouse as each character naps, then awakes. But without an observing eye, these nuances would be left unnoticed. It was my job as a teacher for nearly thirty years to spark my student’s interest to look between the lines and … between the pictures. AS A WRITER: I wrote every day with my students, and they wrote too. It was fun to watch them grow as writers. Many began only able to write a few letters, perhaps their names or the words mom or dad, or maybe a brother or sister’s name. But within a few months, they could string several sentences together to make short paragraphs. They were becoming expert writers. AS A TEACHER/WRITER: Well … that was the best! As I say after each post: I hope you will visit often. There’s something here for every reader. Enjoy. And DON'T forget to subscribe. If you enjoy Bookity Blog, please pass it on to all your friends and they to theirs. (I’d like to drive up the readership. Sometimes it feels like I am writing in a vacuum. So go ahead. Send it to 10 of your friends.) If you hate my blog, go ahead and send it to your enemies. (10 enemies would be good.) I won’t mind. (Clip Art compliments of Bing.com.) 11/9/2023 0 Comments It's the Little Things! LOVE is the little things. It's my husband meeting me at the door when I come home, his doing the dishes, his words, looks, & hugs and kisses. It's 3 hand squeezes! It's our secret, which means I love you. Keep the flowers, chocolates, or diamonds. Just give me the LITTLE things! And, I'll be happy. I hope you will visit often. There’s something here for every reader. Enjoy. And DON'T forget to subscribe. As I say after each post: If you enjoy Bookity Blog, please pass it on to all your friends and they to theirs. (I’d like to drive up the readership. Sometimes it feels like I am writing in a vacuum. So go ahead. Send it to 10 of your friends.) If you hate my blog, go ahead and send it to your enemies. (10 enemies would be good.) I won’t mind. (Clip Art compliments of Bing.) 10/21/2023 0 Comments Child Behavior Begins at Home! "Child behavior begins in the home." Raising children is just about the hardest job a parent has. It takes lots of love, common sense, and dedicated consistency. Children learn at a very young age what is expected of them, and they rise to those expectations when given the chance--when praised for good behavior. We, teachers, easily recognize those children who come from supportive homes, and we applaud those parents. It's not easy to juggle jobs, house and family management, school, and raising kids. We know parents arrive home from work exhausted, overwhelmed, and often stressed beyond belief, but their day is not over. We know because often we are those parents too. Children are stressed too as they balance playdates, after-school activities, HomeFUN (aka homework), dinner, and bedtime routines, which loom large each evening. Their school day is intense not only filled with learning, but also with juggling both their social and emotional behaviors. So, what's the answer? Well, there is no easy one.  But maybe we should all consider cutting back, slowing down. It might help. I remember doing my homework, then running out to play until dinner--no scheduled events--no dance classes, baseball or soccer, no gymnastics, or martial arts classes. We had more idle time--more time for our minds to be free. I spent hours lost in books--lost in my own mind. We, as teachers and parents, need to de-stress the lives of our children and students. We need to offer them more time for themselves to learn and discover who they are. We need to provide consistent and safe environments for them so they feel secure and can thrive. Teachers need to do it in their classrooms and parents need to do it in their homes. After all, all learning begins at home.
 reposted from Donna O'Donnell Figurski's Blog - 08/13/2013 Did you know your brain is made up of two parts – the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere. Both sides of your brain work together, but they can also act separately. The right hemisphere of your brain controls the actions on the left side of your body. While the left hemisphere controls your right side. For example, when you raise your right hand to wave to a friend, your left hemisphere is controlling your hand. If you raise your left eyebrow, like Groucho Marx, your right hemisphere is in charge. Your left hemisphere helps you to process language – reading, writing, and speaking. It helps with reasoning and logic and math skills. It also helps to process scientific knowledge. Left-brain thinkers are critical thinkers. Your right hemisphere is responsible for creativity. Art and music are two activities that may come easy to a right-brain thinker. Reading emotions and expressing them are also dominant in a right-brain thinker. Folks with a dominant right brain may be out-of-the-box thinkers. They look at things differently. A box is confined space. It’s limited. When someone is thinking out-of-the-box more divergent thinking may occur. Most people are either dominant right- or left-brain thinkers. Have you ever wondered which you are? I’m definitely right-brain dominant. I’m a writer, an actor, a jewelry designer, and I’m a teacher – a creative teacher. Most of the activities and projects in my classroom were teacher-made – designed and created by me to lure children into learning. I am always thinking out-of-the-box. I don’t know why – I just do. Guess it’s the darn right brain. I’m definitely left-brain dominant. I’m a user of language – writing, speaking, reading. I’m logical and love to categorize everything. You should see my Excel and FileMaker Pro Data projects. If it moves, I’ll database it. I love that my brain switches, constantly, between both my right and left hemisphere. It allows me to be versatile. It encourages my divergent thinking, while still keeping me grounded. But sometimes it’s exhausting. You may have been wondering why the young woman above is perpetually twirling. She is your test. Take a few moments and stare at her. You are using your right brain, if you see her turning clockwise. If she is turning counter-clockwise, then you are using your left brain. If you can see her switch back and forth, then you are using both sides of your brain – like me. Let me know. I took a test at Chatterbean to test my left vs. right brain. again I scored a balanced brain. What more could I ask for? Here’s my evaluation. Are You a Right-Brain Thinker? Your quiz score makes you: Balanced Thinker Now that you’ve completed our enlightening quiz, you probably know you’re a mix of a right-brain thinker and a left-brain thinker! The best of both worlds! (Roger Sperry was awarded the Nobel Prize for his brain-related work in 1981. If this topic fascinates you as it does me, you can learn more at these sites.) Chatterbean Which Way Do You Spin? Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World Please leave a Comment by simply clicking the blue words “Leave a Comment” below this post. Feel free to Like my post. Click on the “Like” button below. You can also Vote for my post by clicking on a star. If you enjoy my blog, please pass it on to all your friends and they to theirs. If you hate my blog, go ahead and send it to your enemies. I won’t mind. (Clip Art compliments of Bing.) 10/14/2023 0 Comments It's Easy for You I just read some words in TEACH LIKE A PIRATE by Dave Burgess that resounded with me. Those words made me slam down his book and grab my computer. Well, I didn't really slam it. After all, I was reading on my iPad. Dave told the story of a teacher asking him to let her in on the secret of how he ran his classroom so well—so easily. She said, "It's easy for you. You're creative.” Hmm! That sounds like a compliment—yes! I hear similar words from folks who read my book, PRISONERS WITHOUT BARS: A Caregiver's Tale. And yes, I thought it was a compliment too, and I know it's supposed to be. It obviously means that my book was easy to read. GOOD! That was my intent. But when I think further on those six words, I cringe. Did my admirers think that I didn't labor over putting words together to make sentences, paragraphs, and chapters? Did they not know that I squeezed blood out of my keyboard to make every word sound like music—like water flowing gently down the stream? No! They didn't see that. How could they? They didn't see my T-I-C (tush in chair) for hours and hours and hours, pushing through each chapter and reliving every moment of my story. They didn't see my frustration while my mind searched, wandered, and searched some more for the exact right word or words. They weren't sitting with me at my desk for the past twenty years as I honed my craft. If I made my book easy to read, that's great. Like I said, that was my intent. So when Dave Burgess's classroom looked easy to run, when it looked as if it were running like a well-oiled machine, I'm certain it was. But that was his intent, and it took him years to perfect his system too. I realize the hard work that he put in because I did the same in my 1st or 3rd grade classrooms too. They almost ran themselves. If you were a fly on the wall, this is what you might see. Each day, my kiddles were presented with a multitude of learning situations and were daily engaged in projects of their choosing. My room looked like chaos, but it was controlled chaos. (I challenged anyone, especially my principals and administrators, to visit my classroom and ask any child what they were doing and why they were doing it.) My process allowed me to focus on small reading groups or individual writing conferences. It allowed me to provide extra assistance to any student in need. It was perfect. Did it take a lot of work behind the scenes to organize my controlled chaos? Yes! Absolutely! But it was worth every minute. You can read about my methods and my madness in my book, IF I RAN THE SCHOOL: How I Made My Primary-Grade Classroom a Play Yard for Learning, when it's published. And now back to Dave Burgess's book, TEACH LIKE A PIRATE, to find more tidbits of learning. Warning! I may have to slam his book closed again when I find a new tidbit I can't pass up. But don’t fret, I’ll open it again until the final page. As I say after each post: If you enjoy Bookity Blog, please pass it on to all your friends and they to theirs. (I’d like to drive up the readership. Sometimes it feels like I am writing in a vacuum. So go ahead. Send it to 10 of your friends.) If you hate my blog, go ahead and send it to your enemies. (10 enemies would be good.) I won’t mind. (Clip Art compliments of Bing.) 3/12/2023 0 Comments Writing Craft #2 Critique reposted from 12/31/13 from Donna O'Donnell Figurski's Blog It is scary to put your work out there for critical eyes. It leaves you wide open. It leaves you vulnerable. Of course you’ve done your best and you love every word, phrase, sentence, and paragraph. You’ve worked hard. You’ve crafted each word until your eyes seem to turn inward. You think that you can make your article, essay, story, or book no better and you hope that your reviewer will feel the same. After all, if you did not think it was your best, you would not have released it for other eyes – right? It’s hard to hear critiques – even the positive ones. Those words you dragged out of your head and arranged into neat little lines on the paper to tell your story are your babies. As a mother is protective of her child, you too, are the keeper of your words – their protector, their proud creator. So you don your armor, harden your shell, stiffen your upper lip, hold your breath, and … hope for the best. If you have chosen a reviewer, someone who you respect and who you can trust, then trust you must! Don’t fear the red pen. Listen with eager mind but remember too, that her opinion is only one view and not necessarily better than yours. Although she, no doubt, will look at your work with fresher, more neutral eyes, you must still pick and choose and determine what you think will move your writing further – what will make your story the best it can be. Then go back to the keyboard … and tackle your work with a new outlook until your piece shines – brighter than before. As I say after each post: If you enjoy Bookity Blog, please pass it on to all your friends and they to theirs. (I’d like to drive up the readership. Sometimes it feels like I am writing in a vacuum. So go ahead. Send it to 10 of your friends.) If you hate my blog, go ahead and send it to your enemies. (10 enemies would be good.) I won’t mind. (Clip Art compliments of Bing.)  (reposted from 12/31/13 from Donna O'Donnell Figurski's Blog)
Thank you to all who visited my site this year. A bigger thanks for those of you have subscribed and who are following me. A personal shout out to Colleen G. who made the most comments. And a hug to my biggest and “bestest” fan, David, who reads every post. Even better, he ALWAYS votes. This will be my 197th post since I began my blog in December of 2010 and I’ve had more than 15,000 views. My goal is to make my readers laugh, to make them cry, to make them look deeper. Say It Ain’t So looks more carefully at controversial issues – something on which to take a stand. Anything Writing and Writing Craft has to do with … well that’s obvious. TidBits About Donna is where you would look if you really want to know more about me and Musings by Donna is if you want to know what is knocking around inside my head. Both TidBits and Musings also offer insight into life in the disability lane as David and I make our way through the maze of Traumatic Brain Injury. If you’re looking for a great picture book for the child in your life, then check out Teacher’s Pets: Book Reviews. Be prepared to laugh as you read, not only my reviews, but the reviews of the KIDDLE CRITers, a group of six- to eleven-years-olds, as they discuss the books with me. Lesson plans for teachers are included to be used with the reviewed books. There are two posts Living in 3rd Grade and On School that provide glimpses into the world of teaching. Some of them are great for new teachers. Some posts are just silly, poignant stories that happened in my classroom – names changed to protect the infamous. Some include fully prepared lesson plans, guidance, and quick tips. I hope you will visit often. There’s something here for every reader. Enjoy. And Don’t forget to subscribe. As I say after each post: If you enjoy Bookity Blog, please pass it on to all your friends and they to theirs. (I’d like to drive up the readership. Sometimes it feels like I am writing in a vacuum. So go ahead. Send it to 10 of your friends.) If you hate my blog, go ahead and send it to your enemies. (10 enemies would be good.) I won’t mind. (Clip Art compliments of Bing.) |
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