Challenge of the day!

[Teej]

Hi challengers. I've had an extra busy day so will write my post for today in the morning. Just wanted to acknowledge there are such great responses. 
Thank you 

🙏🤗💜

[Windflowers]

Thanks for the distraction @Teej. Loved my Nanna reading me A.A. Milne's poems...Christopher Robin..especially remember the one about the beetle that escaped from the matchbox.."nanny let my beetle out and beetle ran away". Very old fashioned, quaint British poems.

[Mazarita]

Good morning @Teej @eth @Appleblossom @Faith-and-Hope @Former-Member @Shaz51 and anyone reading.

Like @Snowie, I'm another fan of The Silver Brumby. I loved that and other books in the series SO MUCH when I was about 10. I especially liked that it was about wild horses. Compared with the tame animals in other horse books (that I also liked), those brumbies were so free.

[eth]

Good morning to all here. @Mazarita @Teej @Shaz51 @Appleblossom and welcome to @Windflowers  I haven't met you before.  I loved that beetle poem too - used to sing it all the time when I was 6 or 7.

I had a little beetle

so that beetle was his name

I put him in a matchbox

and fed him every day (...can't remember the next bit) ...

but  Nanny let my beetle out

she went and let my beetle out

and beetle ran away

Looking forward to today's challenge.  I have set myself a couple too - smoke less, get on the exercise bike more, and write every day.  

@Teej  could you tag me when you post please - I'd like to keep up with the thread.  Such a good idea, thankyou for making it happen.  xoxo

[Faith-and-Hope]

Hi everyone 👋

My kids lived the Junie B. Jones series.  It got my reluctant reader up and flying in no time .....

Junie B. Jones is a children's book series written by Barbara Park and illustrated by Denise Brunkus.  Published by Random House from 1992 to 2013, the stories begin with Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus, in which Junie B. is a fictional "almost six year old" starting her first day of kindergarten.

*** Thanks for pointing out that this series is now on the banned books list.  

I am guessing that is based on the principle of "how not to behave" and the lack of decorum around the observations of a pre-schooler.

[Exoplanet]

@Mazarita  @Teej  @Faith-and-Hope  @eth  @Windflowers 

[eth]

LOVE that photo @Exoplanet  xx

[Teej]

Today is a open one that lends itself to creativity for those creative souls. 

Post anything that comes to mind with the word 'green'. It doesn't have to be a colour. It can be anything you think of when you think of green. It's a really open challenge today. 


@eth im not so great at tagging these days but know that I'll try to make a list of those doing the challenges tomorrow so that next week I can't tag everyone when I put them up. 

[eth]

Hey @Teej   nice one.  When you say 'green' I think immediately of our vegie garden - it's thriving on all the extra attention at the moment.

It's a bit like this but they are closer together.  We have 10 of them about 2 square metres each.  All Made out of recycled materials (corro sides held together by reused wood corner posts).

[Teej]

ok I have a list from yesterday's challenge. There was a few of us with similar fave books. Enid Blyton was the author of our era even though we can shudder at some of it now for stereotypes. My fave series was definitely the Far Away series.

There were two other faves of my childhood. Both my uncle gave to me. He was fantastic at choosing kids books. He also bought them for my boys. 
One was a picture book called Ann in the Moon.

The other was Spike Milligans 'silly verse for kids'

my fave books for reading to my kids were varied. I love picture books, the illustrations were often the inspiring part of books for me, needless to say I wasn't an avid reader. 
I loved sharing Graeme Base books with my kids as the conversations and the intrigue when looking for things was a lovely connecting moment. 

I loved Mem Fox books. Possum magic will always be a fave. 
my absolute favourite book of hers and I've cried a few times as an adult reading it is Wilfred Gorden MacDonald Partridge. If you haven't read it it's a must for the compassion and empathy. The illustrations by Julie Vivas are just amazing.This was the image of the book cover.

Keeping on with Mem Fox, Time for bed will always be the best bedtime picture book.

Also my fave Adult parody's. If you don't like the F word please don't look the next two up. 

I just saw this too. You can look it up if interested. A video of Samuel Jackson reading a book for reminding us to

Roald Dahl will be always imprinted on me from my kids. The also loved Emily Rodda's 'Deltora Quest' books.

@TAB  I also remember being really fond of Storm Boy but possible more from the movie. I can't remember reading the book. 

Lastly I read 'Across the barricades' in high school. It's the only novel I enjoyed during those years.