Been baking up a storm. Scones to school. Bread to Cheryl. Bread to Cara…They all deserve more than what I could ever give…
But forget about the oven for a minute. It’s time to give away a copy of The Woman and the Wheat. Yippee!!! By the way, an awesome review on the book was posted to Ancient Faith Radio yesterday. The review made me cry–which makes me think Katherine Hyde, the reviewer, better keep on writing herself; she’s that persuasive!
Audio review of The Woman and the Wheat
I’m thrilled with this list of favorite children’s books. What a line up! There are several here that are completely new to me–and I have thousands on my shelves. I can’t wait to read each and every new one mentioned…
Favorites
The Serpent Came to Gloucester by M.T. Anderson and Bagram Ibatoulline
Fingal’s Quest by Madeleine A Polland
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Tales of the Kingdom by David R. Mains, Karen Burton Mains and Linda Lee Wells
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Clown of God by Tomie de Paola
The Little Red Caboose by Marian Potter and Tibor Gergely
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Olivia by Ian Falconer
If you give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Joffe Numeroff and Felicia Bond
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish
A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
We’re going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace and Lois Lenski
Leo the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus and Jose Aruego
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski and P. J. Lynch
The Abbot & I : as told by Josie the Cat by Sarah Elizabeth Cowie
The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
From I-ville to You-ville by Mersine Vigopoulou, Emani Heers, and Fr. Peter Alban Heers
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Make Way for Ducklings (and other books such as Lentil, and Homer Price) by Robert McCloskey
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
The Life of St. Brigid: Abbess of Kildare by Jane G Meyer 🙂 and Zachary Lynch
The Miracle of St. Nicholas by Gloria Whelan
One Wintry Night by Ruth Bell Graham
Books illustrated by Gennady Spirin
Books illustrated by Ruth Sanderson
The Weaving of a Dream by Marilee Heyer
The Ox Cart Man by Donald Hall
All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan and Michael Wimmer
Go, Dogs, Go!, The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss
Christmas Trolls by Jan Brett
When Mama Comes Home Tonight by Eileen Spinelli and Jane Dyer
The Monk who Grew Prayer by Claire Brandenburg
The Man and the Vine by Jane G Meyer (another :))and Ned Gannon
Beatrix Potter books
Something from Nothing by Phoebe Gillman
Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch and Sheila McGraw
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd
At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
The Gruffalo and The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson
Goodnight Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Celebrate the Earth and The Story of Mary by Dorrie Papademetriou
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney and Ann M. Martin
Angel in the Waters by Regina Doman and Ben Hatke
Hippos Go Berzerk by Sandra Boynton
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister Herbert and J. Alison James
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Tear Soup by Pat Schweibert, Chuck DeKlyen, and Taylor Bills
The Donkey’s Dream by Barbara Helen Berger
Christmas Cookies by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Jane Dyer
The Golden Book of Poetry edited by Jane Werner
A Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
And the winner is…
SAMANTHA STARR!
A high school friend from my Samohi days, whose favorite children’s book pick was Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree. Samantha, how fun!
Okay, off to the post office with the book. I wish you all a blessed and beautiful last Saturday before Christmas!
The Woman and the Wheat 
Yippie!!! I am so excited. Thanks Jane!!! Thanks for the pics how cute. Now I can never say that I never win anything ;o)
Happy holidays to all.
Congratulations on the wonderful review (I can understand why it made you cry!), and a very merry Christmas to you as well. May 2010 be filled with blessings.
I shall be adding your latest book to my library and sharing the review link on my blogs; congratulations again 🙂