7th May Lemonade Day

How many 'lemonade' books could a library have? Well I was surprised to find eleven! So many of the picture book series have a title with a 'lemonade' stall. Is this still really every child's first attempt at being entrepreneurial? The  originator of this day, Michael Holthouse thinks so and it is now a highly organised event in the United States.
Look for these books and as well as the series you will find a wonderful poetry book, Lemonade and Other Poems Squeezed from a Single Word,  a book that introduces children to bar graphs Lemonade For Sale,  a story that will have children giggling with power because they know that what the turkey is about to drink is not lemonade, I Love Lemonade,  a beginning chapter book, Magic Lemonade and a story about mindfulness and meditation, The Lemonade Hurricane.

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25th April Anzac Day, Stuart J. Murphy (1942)

It is Anzac Day in Australia and we have a holiday. Most schools commemorate it in some way though, either before or as is the case this year, after. I wrote about books to share for it last year here.

Today is Stuart J. Murphy's birthday. I know little about him except that he is the author of the Lois Ehlert illustrated book, A Pair of Socks. I know this book because I love Lois Ehlert, but reading about Stuart I see that he has many more books in his Math Start series and another series of books for Early Childhood called I See I Learn which I would also like to see more of.

Back to socks. Last year I was surprised to see how many 'sock' books we had in the library. A Year 1 class had made yellow socks when their teacher had shared Lucky Socks by Carrie Weston and Charlotte Middleton with her class. She gave them to me and I decided to put together a display. Everyone has the problem of odd socks and the washing machine eating them, so these books could lead to matching games, counting in pairs, wordbanks for footwear and words that rhyme with socks, making sock puppets or sock monkeys. So many options!

As well as the two books mentioned a display could include:

• Fox in Socks by Dr Seuss

• Fox's Socks by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

• One Blue Sock by Emily Ballou & Stephen Michael King

• Where's My Sock by Joyce Dunbar & Sanja Rescek

• The Sock Fairy by Bobbie Hinman

• Ducks Don't Wear Socks by John Nedwidek & Lee White

• 10 Little Sock Monkeys by William B. Winburn

• My Dog is as Smelly as Dirty Socks by Hanoch Piven

and any of the three Sir Charlie Stinky Socks titles by Kristina Stephenson.