Remember Bad Kitty?
The cat who went from a good pet to a VERY BAD pet because her family only had good healthy food to eat? .
And now, one of our favorite black cats is back and ready for another round. This time, in a picture filled chapter book (Bad Kitty vs Uncle Murray
Guess what popular author was also a sheep breeder and farmer? She published 23 books between 1902 and 1932. A film
If you guessed Beatrix Potter
If you want to learn more about Beatrix Potter, check out this fabulous web site - http://www.peterrabbit.com. It has information for young and old alike.
**Updated to extend contest until Sunday night. I lost an old friend today and we will be spending the weekend at the viewing and the funeral.**
We have some bits and pieces left over from our other store that we want to share with our readers. Since we're focusing on cats this week, we thought we'd start with a cat puzzle, brand new from Piatnik. This puzzle is in the Hana Deka style, defined by Wikipedia as "literally 'big nose' created by the animal lover and photographer Yoneo Morita, that prominently feature pets photographed through wide angled lenses." The puzzle has 100 pieces, perfect for family game night, or if you just like jigsaw puzzles.
For a chance to win the puzzle, just leave a comment with the name of your favorite cat. If you don't have cats of your own, and need inspiration, can we suggest Dudley & friends? We'll randomly pick a name Saturday Monday morning so to enter, just leave a comment before midnight Friday, October 9th Sunday, October 11th.
I've got some friends helping out in the kitchen tonight. Bad Kitty brought two friends to join in the fun. Thomas the Bashful JellyCat Kitten and Andrew the Medium Bunglie JellyCat Cat came to lend their expertise.
The bats got to make something - we want to make something too!
What can we make? They got to make bats, so can we make cats?
Well, let's see what we have in the cabinet. We've got some chocolate cookies, and some icing - we should be able to come up with something.
Let's take two cookies - put one on a plate. If you've got a colorful Halloween plate, all the better! This cookie is going to be the face of our cat. Then break or cut the second cookie in half.
Cut one of the halves into three pointy pieces. What do you think they look like?
Like triangles?
What part of a cat do they look like?
Triangle parts?
How 'bout we put two aside for the ears and you can eat the third piece. You don't want your cat to be a mutant with three ears, do you?
No ... well, maybe. No, definitely not.
I didn't think so!
Squeeze a line of gel along the edge of the pointy piece. This is going to be the glue holding the parts together. Smush it up against the top of your "cat head" to make it stick.
Do the same thing with the 2nd pointy piece.
Now, using the white icing, add two dots for eyes.
And don't forget the whiskers.
Doesn't that look yummy? And aren't you getting a little close to the plate? And, WHO I wonder took a bite out of that cookie? Hmmm?
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I love the decorations, the pumpkins, the stories. There are some great children's books out there about Halloween. How Spider Saved Halloween, The Dorrie Books, and this book - Scary, Scary Halloween by Eve Bunting.
I peer outside, there's something there
That makes me shiver, spikes my hair.
It must be Halloween.
A ghost goes triling, drifting by
With sunken mouth and sunken eye
Ghosts rise on Halloween.
Little ones, stay safe inside!
It's best to stay at home and hide
on hallowed Halloween.
A vampire and a werewolf prowl
One growls a growl, one howls a howl
In praise of Halloween.
Two witches, grinning witchy grins
Have pointy hats and pointy chins
They're here for Halloween
Who is hiding under the porch, afraid of the ghosts and witches? Who's spooky eyes are those? We have to wait for the monsters to go away and then ...
It's quiet now, the monster's gone,
The streets are ours until the dawn.
We're out, we prowlers of the night
Who snap and snarl and claw and bite.
Now they're not so scary! Especially the little black one ...
as a matter of fact, he reminds me of one of my favorite felines
Eve Bunting's words and Jan Brett's illustrations are a wonderful combination. I would love for Jan Brett to make me this costume - look at all the details!
