Children Without TV #42 Mud Pies

Amazon Water Lily

Mud pies, puddles, streams
to scan; elemental scents
of earth’s touch to come.

Children Without TV #41:Through the Keyhole

FrizzText’s cat

curiosity &
initiative fashion
magic key-holed doors!

There’s a new book for you to enjoy for free:

Children Without TV
http://www.blurb.com

Descr.How children live without TV, boom boxes and cartoons for breakfast… from birth to 5 years of age; sharing with pets, the outdoors and all the neighborhood critters. Even spiders get counted.

http://www.blurb.com/books/5187118-children-without-tv

click on the link to see a page by page animation of the entire book.
If you view it in full screen, you’ll get maximum effect.

Children Without TV #40 Miss Spring

Oliver and Annika explain the appearance of Mrs Snowthaw, the Lady Spring!

She melts the snow, calls
the birds, seedlings, roots, babies:
verdant beginnings!

Children Without TV #38 Heroes in Literature

Jane Yolan and Mark Teague tell how dinosaur
gets well soon.

Three year old saw it
once; heard it once; kept the rhyme!
THINK: make a big stink

Today on Face Time, Oliver reminded me that his Mom had the flu. And that the dinosaur doesn’t make a “big stink.” This is a timely phenomena since he is navigating from diapers to using the toilet.
So he memorized the phrase from Yolan’s book: “Does he make a big stink? Is that what you think?” Every time he quotes the book, his family applauds for the young poet. All the acknowledgment is just more encouragement. His favorite at 2 was “poop poop toot toot”!
(giggle,giggle)

Children Without TV: #37 Joining

My color pencil portrait of the grandkids

Slipping in: soft clay
mold: brother-sister creature:
shimmer reflections.

Children Without TV #36 Catch in the Wild

Does this little artist know how to take home the fish?

Sees them swimming swift-
ly – shimmer scales a-glimmer:
gentle lullaby!

Children Without TV #35 Enough

Is a twig enough?
Or do I need an eagle’s nest?

Enough light, height, bright
outlook, closeness, uniqueness,
comfort in the wind.

Children Without TV #34 Who do we love?

Apple’s Cloud proudly presents: Annika’s much loved farm friends!

Drawn on i-Pad Air on Thursday March 13,2014

i-Pad Air transports
favored personalities
known and stroked on farm.

Papa, Mama met
on farm; brought their care to cubs,
calves, babes and off-spring!

Children Without TV #33 A Unique Kingdom

Snowshoes claim the top of the hill in triumph!

Nigerian poet, Ben Okri tells us:
“Literature always comes from a specific place, but it lives in its own unique kingdom“

Woodland kingdom guards
explorers; spawns her young shoots
from her nourished roots.