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Sunday Coffee and Children’s Literature
by MontanaHome
Posted on 27 June 2010 | 5:00 am 
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Today in 1922, the first Newbery Medal is awarded for Children’s Literature.
On this day in 1922, the American Library Association (ALA) awards the first Newbery Medal, honoring the year’s best children’s book, to The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon. The idea for an award honoring outstanding contributions to children’s literature came from Frederic G. Melcher, a former bookseller who in 1918 became an editor of Publisher’s Weekly. Over his long career, Melcher often looked for ways to encourage reading, especially among children. . . .
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This doesn’t strike one as news, never mind of the breaking variety:
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June 28th, 2010 at 6:52 am
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That falls under the no news is good news category.
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Very nice program on Nature – cheetahs – two brothers learning to make it in the wild.
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June 27th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
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June 27th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
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Oh noes, poor cheetah …
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Good night, all.
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June 27th, 2010 at 8:11 pm
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sweet rapid eye movement
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June 27th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
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June 27th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
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What she said.
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Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Sun, June 27, 2010 — 5:22 PM ET
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World Leaders at Toronto Summit Pledge to Cut Deficits
Leaders of the world’s biggest economies agreed on Sunday on
a timetable for cutting their deficits and halting the growth
of their public debt, despite the Obama administration’s
concern that reducing spending too quickly might set back the
fragile global recovery.
The Group of 20 countries ended a two-day summit meeting here
by endorsing a goal of cutting government deficits in half by
2013 and stabilizing the ratio of public debt to gross
domestic product by 2016. Canada’s prime minister, Stephen
Harper, had proposed the targets and received the backing of
several European leaders.
Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/business/global/28summit.html?emc=na
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This could be a big mistake. I’m no economist, but it seems that this is a perfect time for _more_ spending by gov’t — get some of those public works programs going, rebuild infrastructure, get people jobs, etc. And tax the hell out of those wealthy corporations and owners.
Moreover, if the European/Canadian gov’ts now decide this is the time to cut back spending – the locals are not going to be happy about this. Some angry demonstrations are in the future…
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June 27th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
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It makes me sick, MH. Public works programs, yes. Rebuild infrastructure, waaaay overdue. And tax the wealthy.
And, yes to demonstrations. It’s going to be a rocky road for the next little while. I saw that and my brain fried. Stupid, stupid.
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June 27th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
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Yes, and rightfully angry. Cutting deficits in half could be achieved very easily by slashing the military budget, taxing financial transactions, and raising taxes on the wealthy, but the approach they are likely to take is to cut social benefits, placing the burden on the working class. Because capitalist system require that above all you protect the rich.
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June 27th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
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Always, Kiba. Until the French Revolution happens again.
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June 27th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
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Well said, Kiba.
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Winnie the Pooh… I still can’t read those stories aloud without going off into gales of laughter…
The more it snows, (tiddily pom)
The more it goes (tiddily pom)
The more it goes (tiddily pom)
On snowing…
And nobody knows (tiddily pom)
How cold my nose (tiddily pom)
How cold my nose (tiddily pom)
Is growing….
And The Boxcar Children
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June 27th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
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June 27th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
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Have you ever read fairy tales with an adult eye? Those things are terrifying.
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June 27th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
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Grimm and Anderson particularly, I find.
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June 27th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
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Indeed!!!!
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June 27th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
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The Snow Queen is a horror tale.
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June 27th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
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The Little Match Girl isn’t exactly full of giggles, either.
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June 27th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
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I was thinikng of that poor little thing, freezing on the street.
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June 27th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
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I can’t remember either of those – but I do have some fairy tale books around here – remember the Blue (and Violet and, hmm, Red?) Fairy Tale books? Must take a look see.
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June 27th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
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Quite a few of them are delightfully dark and twisted.
I was just thinking about getting a hold of Vertigo’s graphic novel series, Fables.
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June 27th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
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One of my nephews is all over that, to my sister’s mild dismay. But she likes a good thriller, so may become a fan.
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June 27th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
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I love Milne. His stories are good, but his poems are incredible. I have a collection of his verse, The World of Christopher Robin (which is actually the complete books When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six). It’s one of the best books I own.
When my daughter was little, I had something like 80% of those poems memorized.
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June 27th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
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I was thinking about Pinkle Purr just the other day.
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June 27th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
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I mean part your sadly recently-lost dear Pinkle Purr, but also of the poem.
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June 27th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
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It’s such a beautiful and sweet poem, and a very fitting name for the little darlin’.
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June 27th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
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So true. I know I’ve probably said this five times Kiba, but I’ve gotten a kick out of the fact that you call one of your kits Sherry – it’s my given name.
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June 27th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
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I am the Official Namer of Cats. I didn’t campaign for the position, it just sort of fell to me. I do come up with good names.
The way Sherry was named is kind of funny. She was very small, but absolutely fearless. This big old wild tom came up to check out the situation, and she walked right up to him, bold as you please. He hissed and she hissed back and swatted at him. He was about to tear her to shreds when I grabbed her to get her out of his reach. All I could get a hold of was her tail. I pulled her back and picked her up, and said, “Hey, she was just saved by a tail. Let’s call her Scheherazade.”
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June 27th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
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What a wonderful story. The fearless cats certainly seem to be born that way! We had an eccentric Siamese tom that would sit on the property border and just flagrantly dare the neighbor’s Rottweiler to cross. Then spike him on the nose and elegantly sashay away.
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June 27th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
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Hahahaha, brilliant cat! That sounds like something straight out of a cartoon!
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June 27th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
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He was a riot. Very sleek and full of himself, so we named him Simon and his companion (a wild and crazy ginger angora), Garfunkel.
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June 27th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
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When I was a kid we had a pair of litter mates we named Bonnie and Clyde. I think my mom actually came up with the names.
They were gorgeous. Part Manx, they were both tailless. They were both jet black, very sleek and athletic. The only difference in appearance was that Bonnie had about a dozen white hairs on her upper chest, just below her throat, and she had a little bit of a stub of a tail, just a couple of vertebrae.
Clyde was an amazing hunter. I remember one time I watched him stalking a bird on the lawn. I thought there was no way he could get that bird. He slowly snuck up, closer and closer. He bolted just as the bird flew… and Clyde jumped in the air and caught the bird in his paws. I was gobsmacked.
He used to bring me headless birds and mice all the time as gifts.
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June 27th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
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June 27th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
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June 27th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
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Hahaha, yep. At first my inclination was to go, “Ach! Ewwwww! Take it away!” But instead I would pet him and tell him what a good boy he was. He’d purr and be like, “Yeah, I know, right? I’m amazing. You are such a lucky human.”
The first time he left one, I was rather put out.
“MO-O-OM! There’s a dead mouse on the steps!”
“What? Are you sure it’s dead?”
“Pretty sure, yeah. It doesn’t have a head.”
“Oh yes, that’s a fairly good indication it’s dead, all right. I bet Clyde left it there for us. Don’t scold him! He’s bringing it as a present. Let him know you appreciate it.”
June 27th, 2010 at 7:57 pm
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Kiba, your Mom is very wise.
June 27th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
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Your Mom was an obvious cat-savvy expert. They are so very proud of those gruesome offerings, and it’s so important to praise them.
We’ve just recently gotten Pooh to stop bringing the live mice up on the bed to play fetch with, too many enthusiastic fetch games with the fake mice. You get good at snapping the duvet to fling the poor mouse away so it can escape to creep in another day.
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If anyone enjoys a cooking program of a Sunday, Food Network is featuring the incomparable Paula Deen today. Any recipe that begins ‘take two sticks a’ buttah’ works for me.
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June 27th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
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Me, too.
Unfortunately I don’t get Food Network. 
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June 27th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
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They have videos here, actually. http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipe-videos-from-paula-deen2/videos/index .html
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June 27th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
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Thanks, Ms Bear. I will look at them. I still don’t know everything about the pooter.
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June 27th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
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Pretty much click and play clips, 5 minutes per or so. Once in a while it’s nice to have a demonstration with a recipe.
I can have the most egregious kitchen misfires! Like once a year I completely screw something up. Was putting together some meals for dave before I scampered off to Saratoga, and managed to fully ruin basic parmesan herb biscuits. Must have put in several times the required amount of baking soda, completely spitting-out worthy
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June 27th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
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The biggest disasters often come when too many cooks are in the kitchen, too. That is one reason we have a family rule that only one person can be in the kitchen as a cook.
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June 27th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
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Great rule, Kit.
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Can’t Homeland Security cross check for age??? This is ridiculous!!!!
http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/ohio-6-year-oid-alyssa-thomas-tu rns-up-on-terror-watch-list/19532082
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June 27th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
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There are a few ‘children’s’ books I try to reread periodically, but I think The Velveteen Rabbit and The Secret Garden are tops. And A.A. Milne, of course.
So glad my nieces and nephews arrived to provide ample cover for rediscovering so many great ones.
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June 27th, 2010 at 11:45 am
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Oh, very nice choices!
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June 27th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
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I had forgotten the Secret Garden..I just reread that one a couple of years ago.
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Morning all, totally digging the children’s literature theme, mh.
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June 27th, 2010 at 9:31 am
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June 27th, 2010 at 9:37 am
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It’s just a topic that makes ‘ya smile.
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June 27th, 2010 at 9:50 am
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And Goddess knows we need all the help we can get these days.
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June 27th, 2010 at 9:55 am
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Indeed. I can’t quite figure out how life seemed to get more stressful after W left D.C.
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June 27th, 2010 at 9:59 am
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W’s chickens waited til he was gone to come home to roost. Ya know, if these conspiracy freaks wanted to have a conspiracy so bad why don’t they look into that????? Seems to me that is worthy of a theory.
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June 27th, 2010 at 11:45 am
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June 27th, 2010 at 11:47 am
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There are some truly wonderful books out there!!
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Frank Rich is good today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/opinion/27rich.html?th&emc=th
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June 27th, 2010 at 9:37 am
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Thank goddess for Rich,kit. Mornin’ !
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Some teachers and principals go to the wall for the kids. This is one of them.
“By 10 p.m., Mr. Santana and his staff were piling students into livery cabs. The prom had been a success, but the moment was bittersweet. “I can’t guarantee any more happy days for them,” Mr. Santana said. “No more control over them. That’s it; they’re gone.”’
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/nyregion/27principal.html?th&emc=th
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June 27th, 2010 at 9:56 am
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Very inspiring story, if bittersweet.
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Good morning, y’all. 76 and sunny with 93% wet stuff.
From Rethink Afghanistan comes this provocative bit of video via Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/rethinkafghanistan?akid=1150.1037507.TD1Zyn&rd =1&t=3&v=app_10531514314
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