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  • lmnop

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    Judy Butler
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    Someone changed the melody to the English alphabet song. No more rushing through lmnop! Funny how, in all the years I sang that song as a child and then as an SLP, I never questioned the intelligibility of that middle section. This modification got me thinking about the many alphabet books I’ve come across. Some…

  • Sandra Louise Woodward Darling

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    Judy Butler
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    A friend pulled Carl’s Afternoon in the Park (1991) from a bookstore shelf and said, “You’ve got to see this.” That was in 1992. What fun it’s been finding books by Alexandra Day ever since. Carl is an enormous Rottweiler that looks after a child while his owners are away. The idea for this series…

  • Barry Moser’s Amazing Animals

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    Judy Butler
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    Energy literally flies off the page of Earthquack (2002) as the wings of a huge white goose extend beyond the borders of the cover. I nearly hear honking from the bird’s wide-open beak as it flails above the crumbling ground below its airborne feet. A small, bright yellow duck mirrors the panic. The sky isn’t…

  • Why the limited palette?

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    Judy Butler
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    The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World’s Coral Reefs by Kate Messner (2018) is the story of Ken Nedimyer’s heroic attempts to restore dying coral reefs. There’s more information, references, and vocabulary at the back of the book. A photo of Nedimyer is on the last page. I won’t be creating a Picture Book Talk lesson…