Have you seen this yet?
I’m in love — and so excited that both Margaret Cardillo and Julia Denos will be stopping by next week to tell us all about their brand new Audrey Hepburn picture book biography! I’ve been an Audrey fan forever, and think this gorgeous book is a marvelous choice for Women’s History Month.
To whet your appetite, here’s the official book trailer and a video of Audrey singing "Moon River" from Breakfast at Tiffany’s — one of my all-time favorite cinematic moments.
Remember a couple of weeks ago, when I featured Diane Lockward’s poem,“If Only Humpty Dumpty Had Been a Cookie,” and I suggested you might try writing your own cookie poem using any or several of these wordy cookies as a prompt?
#2 in an eclectic collection of notable noshes to whet your appetite and brighten your day.
RECIPE FOR WONKA-VITE
Take a block of finest chocolate weighing one ton (or 20 sackfuls of broken chocolate whichever is the easier). Place chocolate in very large cauldron and melt over red-hot furnace. When melted, lower the heat slightly so as not to burn the chocolate, but keep it boiling. Now add the following, in precisely the order given, stirring well all the time and allowing each item to dissolve before adding the next:
The hoof of a manticore
The trunk (and the suitcase) of an elephant
The yolks of three eggs from a whiffle-bird
A wart from a wart-hog
The horn of a cow (it must be a loud horn)
The front tail of a cockatrice
Six ounces of sprunge from a young slimescraper
Two hairs (and one rabbit) from the head of a hippocampus
The beak of a red-breasted wilbatross
A corn from the toe of a unicorn
The four tentacles of a quadropus
The hip (and the po and the pot) of a hippopatamus
The snout of a proghopper
A mole from a mole
The hide (and the seek) of a spotted whangdoodle
The whites of 12 eggs from a tree-squeak
The three feet of a snozzwanger (if you can’t get three feet, one yard will do)
The square-root of a south American abacus
The fangs of a viper (it must be a vindscreen viper)
The chest (and the drawers) of a wild grout
When all the above are thoroughly dissolved, boil for a further 27 days but do not stir. At the end of this time, all liquid will have evaporated and there will be left in the bottom of the cauldron only a hard brown lump about the size of a football. Break this open with a hammer and in the very centre of it you will find a small round pill. This pill is WONKA-VITE.
~ Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
♥ More Tasty Tidbits here.
Tip: Wonka-Vites have been known to cure a variety of ailments, including Writer’s Block and Twitteritis, in addition to making people younger.
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“Crooker has an extraordinary ear for the sounds of words. The reader’s ear leaps up in delight at the alliteration, assonance, consonance and near rhymes . . . ” ~ Diane Lockward
“Twilight on the Seine” by WPK1054/flickr
Have you ever tried to catch time in a bottle?
With “Nocturne in Blue,” Barbara Crooker beautifully captures twilight in one of my favorite cities in the world.
This poem was inspired by a request from the sitter who was hired to stay with Barbara’s autistic son while she was away in Paris with her husband. As she considers the request, she ruminates on past and present, as well as the light and dark moments this fading time of day brings to mind.
Once there was an 8-year-old girl named Lisa who wrote a story about mermaids.
We’ll miss her, and will be forever grateful for her light, love, friendship, and the beautiful stories she gave us.
Click over to Melodye’s blog to see the Book of Love that was presented to Lisa last month. It’s a nice way to remember and celebrate her life.
Rest in Peace, L.K. Madigan.♥
ETA:
I know everyone has been aching to do something in memory of Lisa. Here’s how you can help. Her son Nate was the most important person in the world to her. Now you can help him by donating to a college fund:
Checks can be made payable to the Nathan Wolfson Trust.
They can be mailed to:
Becker Capital Management, Inc.
Attn: Sharon Gueck/John Becker
1211 SW Fifth Ave, Suite 2185
Portland, OR 97204
Donors will be sent acknowledgement letters.
Please repost, Tweet, etc. widely.
*( taken from April Henry’s blog)
**Read this post on Lisa’s blog written by her husband, Neil.
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