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The Street Where You Live

Before You Leap: A Frog's Eye View of Life's Greatest LessonsIt was brought to you by the letter S!

Now, more than 4000 episodes and 122 Emmy Awards later, the street that revolutionized educational TV hits prime time ( Check your local PBS listing! ). Sesame Street, home to Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Ernie, Bert, Kermit The Frog, Miss Piggy, The Count, and countless other household names, will celebrate its 40th anniversary this Tuesday, November 10. And because it continues to be one of television’s most successful and endearing series, we’re still counting. How lucky is that?  Sesame Street's multi and cross-cultural appeal endures!  "Sunny Days..."

Celebrate this milestone sesame style with Tudy's fave street finds:  Kermit's Before You Leap: A Frog's Eye View of Life's Greatest Lessons, Imagine, Play & Learn, and of course, Play With Me Sesame. They're all classic Sesame so you'll be learning your ABCs, numbers, songs, and life skills in such a fun and intuitive way!  Chances are these books and DVDs will even bring out the kid in Mom and Dad. ( There you go! Can't say I didn't warned you :) )  And you just might end up with more play dates than ever imagined.

So how do you get to 123 Sesame Street?

Look around you, Tudygirls.  "Who are the people in your neighborhood?"  That's the street where you live AND learn!

( This blog's for you, Kermit!  You're still my one and only frog prince!!!)

Serendipity!

Serendipity MarketI love this word!  (Do you know what it means?  I'm not blogging! Check it out at Merriam-Webster if you don't ;->)  So when I saw Penny Blubaugh's Serendipity Market on the shelf, I just had to grab it!  And guess what? Serendipity!!! It's a book of re-imagined fairy tales!  And you know that I just love that!  Mama Inez and Toby (her Woofy!) feel that things are not right with the world and that the only way to bring balance back is thru the magic of story-telling.  So she gathers the story tellers she's found and brings them to her market of tales - the Serendipity Market!

Blubaugh uses familiar fairy tale themes in her first book and adds a whole new spin to them.  So the princess and the pea and red riding hood aren't quite what you remember them to be!  There's a little sadness and darkness in some of the stories but a lot of light and love too!  And I guess that's what balance is all about!  My fave is Lost.  Read the Serendipity Market and tell me - which one is yours?