In the book, Granny Torrelli Makes Soup, Sharon Creech offers a story of strong characters and meaningful relationships through good old fashion cooking.
Poop by the lawn mower."Īnd the chop chop of the words will seep into their brain and they'll begin to see that "tell me more" isn't the only way to revise a piece of writing and a little of the "what i did over the weekend essay" will seep out and they might actually pick up a book when it's not "required reading". Made him a bed out of my pillow and and old blanket". Snuck out in the morning and fed him more meat loaf. I LOVE that while teachers are beating their kids over the head with the lame-ass "First, Then, Next, Finally" format and "Topic Sentence, 3 paragraph essay", they might pick up something by Creech and see some paragraphs like these: I LOVE that she writes in away that teachers would be mortified to see their kids write. Her books are diverse in style and kick ass in story but mostly I love that she respects kids enough to speak in ways that are less than orthodox for kids books.
Could i put a bazillion kids books on here? yes.
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