Magical Tales
So curl up, stay tuned, and enjoy all the "Potter" magic of the season. Treat yourself or a friend to The Tales of Beedle the Bard!
Green Kawaii
Here's Kawaii's eco-friendly flapper for the season: An e-flipbook available on-line, right now!
Santa Goes Green is a tale about one boy, in one small house, in one small town, who makes all the difference! He asks for no gifts, no toys, just ways Santa can help save his polar bear's home. But it's no walk in the glacier either. Even for Santa!!! With three days 'till Christmas, it's a race against time as Swift, the head elf, tries to get his boss, Mr. Jolly Ol' Elf himself, more focused on (OMG!!!) Christmas!
Written by Anne Lewis and inspired by her then 6-year-old son, Cameron, Santa Goes Green is a gift from one mom to all the children of the world. And what's sooo inspiring is the book is available on-line, yours to read for free.
So read the gift! Click on the book title! Warm up to this holiday, Arctic tale.
Kawaii's take: it's a "topical" shade of green... certainly the new classic night-before-Christmas-read!
Holiday Travel
little pink candies for soothing sore throats!"
With Seuss-like prose and girl-wit precision, Priscilla and The Great Santa Search, will warm your hearts this holiday season. The fourth in the Priscilla series and just in time for the holidays, it's Tudy's pick for all your gift-giving reasons!
Mall Santas getting you down? Then do what Priscilla and her BFF, Bettina, do. Travel! Pack up. Embark on a quest (go ahead, Tudygirls, find your real Santa!). And take pictures! Lots of pictures!!! That way, yule end up with picture-perfect treasures... sights and sounds that'll make a believer of anyone.
But never underestimate the weather. Ol' man winter always exacts a heavy toll. Delays are common. So pack right and sit tight.
Tudy's travel advisory: Santa and his reindeers ahead!!!
For the Birds
Gracias the Thanksgiving Turkey is a frolicking, cut-to-the-chase, page turner! Sprinkled with Spanish from beginning to end, you'll have a fiesta helping Miguel figure out ways to save his pet turkey, Gracias, from being the Thanksgiving feast. (Oh, can you just imagine???) And somewhere down the line, as you hablas a little Espanol, you'll realize your family, friends, and community play such an integral part of who you can be. (Look all around you, Tudygirls. You have a lot to be grateful for!)
,,,Bueno, vamonos los muchachos y las muchachas. Feast up on this turkey. Gracias the Thanksgiving Turkey is a tried and Tudy-true holiday keeper,,,
(Shhhhh ... no hay de que, Gracias!)
Red, White, and True
Today, Tom Tierney has two, commemorative 2008 US presidential paper doll books available for sale at The Tudy Book Shop. These 32-page, limited edition booklets are just a bipartisan, "politically correct", history-in-the-making read. You'll learn about the presidential candidates, their families, and the whole electoral process. It's paper coverage you won't want to miss.
So make the most of this historical event! Cast your vote, secure your own polls, and let a paper doll race you to the White House.
The Fairy's Fizzzzz
Here's the ultimate, thirst quencher for all you trick or treaters!
Flutter home and clear out the butterfly dust and silky webs for this one.
It's a wing stopper!
Gather round:
4 cups Haagan Daz vanilla honey ice cream
(from the bees!)
2 cups Minute Maid orange juice
(from the trees!)
1 cup rice milk
(from the ground!)
Lots of orange wheels
(make sure they're round!)2 Tbsp powdered sugar
(powdery and sweet!)
1 can club or orange soda
(trick or treat!)
Now for some fairy magic (ask the elder fairies to help):
Put the ice cream, orange juice, sugar, and milk in a blender. Cover with the lid. Blend on high until smoooooth. Pour mixture into glasses. Serve as is or top off with club or orange soda. Garnish with lots and lots of orange wheels!
Now, close your eyes, drink it up! Make a wish...
... Poof!!! Wish granted!
BOOks and SpOOks
What do you do when you're a loney kid and live in a graveyard? Get a few ghosts and other creatures of the night to tutor you (wish I had Silas and Miss Lupescu for my teachers!), explore the haunting worlds that are just a (tomb)stones-throw away, and live a "normal" life just like Nobody "Bod" Owen's. But never, ever leave the graveyard, unless you're ready to dig your own grave!
The Graveyard Book, with haunting illustrations by Dave McKean, is vintage Gaiman and guarantees a ghoulishly good read! You're going to love Bod, and this bOOk, to death!
Beware the Spinmeister
The Spider!and The Fly is a ghoulishly fun read in black and white bling! Winner of the 2003 Caldecott Honor and a Ghoulie Tudy rave, this book will thrill, captivate, and enthrall you. Beautifully illustrated by the talented Tony DiTerlizzi, The Spider!and the Fly does what very few books can: it actually takes you to a movie ~ a 1920s, Hollywood, silent movie! Mary Howitt's classic, "danger stranger" tale is given a whole new, cinematic twist! And what a visual spin it is!
So this Halloween, fall for the trick! Walk into this spider's! parlor and have a howlin', dastardly time. After all, as the sly, dapper spider! so fiendishly reminded us, "spiders! are not the only hunters, and bugs are not the only victims" this time of year."
True, true!
Happy haunting...
Make Halloween Count!
Go Trick-or-Treating for UNICEF! Create your own coin canister with this downloadable, canister wrapper. Get into spirit (how about a do-good angel or a grant-a-wish fairy?) and go door-to-door for UNICEF this Halloween. Instead of treats, ask for donations to help UNICEF fight poverty by getting water, education, and medicine to kids who need it most!
UNICEF, or the United Nations Children's Fund, has been helping kids around the world for more than 50 years. And isn't it great that anyone, even kids, can help raise money to stave off poverty? Remember, just 6 cents provides water and $2.00 provides nutrition for one needy child. So it's easy, and this Halloween, it's even frightfully fun!
Trick or Treat for UNICEF! Because every boy, girl, and ghoul counts!
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The Trick's the Tale .....By Tudette
The Monster From TooWoomba
I always do my homework.
I do! It’s true! I swear!
But there’s a monster in my locker,
And it’s blue and huge and smells.
And every time I stow my books,
The monster throws me a hungry lyyk.
So I feed it all my homework.
I do! It’s true! I swear!
And that is why, dear teacher,
My homework’s there, Down Under!
Have You Met...
My little sister, Tudette? I just YYY her! She's impish, funny, and totally into plush! Can you guess what's in her closet?
She's here just in time for trick-or-treating, so help her get into costume! She has a closet full of fun!
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