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More flap from Flapdoodle by Alan Schwartz

A hungry boy gave a penny for a custard pie. He throwed that pie through a brick wall nine feet thick. Then he jumped over the wall and broke his ankle just above the elbow. When his cat started singing "Yankee Doodle," the boy jumped into a dry creek and drowned. Meanwhile, the cat grabbed off nine turkey gobblers that were passing through town. Then he climbed into a tree with them and lived happily ever after. Forty years later to the very day the boy saddled up an old hog and drove past that house

I went down a long, broad, short, narrow road, and there I met a pigsty tied to an elder bush. I knocked at the maid and the door came out. She asked if I could eat a glass of buttermilk and drink a crust of bread and cheese. I said, "No, thank you. Don't mind if I do." Then I went a bit further and I met a bark and he dogged at me.

Charles Has a Licking Problem!

Special Effects Books

Special Effects in Film and Television
See faces peeled off of animatronics workings. Look at gruesome prosthetic monsters sporting alien ribcages. See movie storyboards, split-screen tricks, matte painting majesty, blue screens and green screens with legless, armless clothes playing tennis. Look behind the scenes of digital manipulation, miniature models, puppetry, and even nasty open wounds seeping false blood. See step-by-step mold-making of Star Trek creatures and morphing effects. Now take a step back. How do the SFX technicians convince us of snow and ice, battle zones, explosive action, fire, crash landings, and even natural disasters? The photos are worth it and the information is splendid.


Special Effects: An Introduction to Movie Magic

What is a praxinoscope? Who were the Lumiere brothers? What had to happen before the Lord of the Rings hit the movie screen and Gollum came alive, "my preciousssssssssss"? Read the history of special effects starting with "the magic lantern." Watch the 1926 film Metropolis again to analyze the elaborate plaster cities built for sets. Would you rather operate a Gremlin puppet from the old days or sculpt an animatronics miniature? Try "forced perspective" to look 50 feet tall instead of a puny 5' 6". Blur "ghost effects," split screens, manipulate digital skeletons, and more Hollywood tricks of the trade. Lastly, go online with the list of instruction, production, and visual effects websites that is included in the back of this book.

Virtual bicycling

Burpee's

This ear of corn was meant to tempt seed buyers to buy from Burpee's Seeds.
It came from an 1879 issue of the American Agriculturist.

Are you crafty?

Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-Shirt
By Megan Nicolay
If the names of the chapters don’t get you, the urban photos and drawn directions will.

Chapter 1: tee off
Chapter 2: tee time
Chapter 3: par-tee on
Chapter 4: flir-tee girls
Chapter 5: skir-tee girls
Chapter 6: the t-zone
Chapter 7: t-wrecks
Chapter 8: the grande finale
Tear your t-shirt in half, rip off the sleeves, cut a scoop on the back,… stitch and lace or safety pin it, cut so many little holes it becomes mesh, braid straps, strip and weave the lengths into knots of leave three-tiered fringes like a flapper in the 1920’s, plus way too many more to list! Not for the faint of heart.

The Blue Jean Book: the Story Behind the Seams
By Tayna Lloyd Kyi
"People have been buying jeans since Levi Strauss made the first ones in California in 1873. And the love of denim has traveled from North America around the world." Have you read The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, yet? Can denim really fit everyone? Read about the inception, chemistry, production (borderless, seamless…), marketing (to soldiers, designer, branding, black-market…), and changes in blue jeans over 100+ years. "[T]he name ‘denim’ came from a French fabric woven of silk and wool. Because the fabric was made in Nimes, France, it was called ‘serge de Nimes.’ When stores in England began importing the cloth, its name was eventually shortened to "deNimes" or "denim." Read a lot more bizarre trivia about this wonder fabric in this book or other resources at the library.



Get Hooked: Simple Steps to Crochet Cool Stuff
By Kim Werker
"From how to hold your hook to how to finish off a piece, and all the stitches in between- this [book] will make a crocheter out of you. It’s time to dive in!" What’s a hook? What’s a hank? Go from the slip knot to the slip stitch to the treble crochet in a few easy steps. Plus the pictures are a cinch to understand. It’s not just grandma’s favorite pastime, college kids are doing it all across the world. Want to fall asleep on a "sushi roll pillow" or go out wearing your own "pleated miniskirt"?

Knit & Stitch for Beginners: 25 Fun and Easy Projects
By Wendy Freeman
Spiral bound and disguised as a book, this is a fun way to learn to knit. This book is for young adults, so, like spandex, some things are sadly missed out on by the rest of us. However, anyone can knit. Once you know how to purl the obligatory washcloth and scarf, try a "knobbly, bobbly belt" or a "zippy purse". Then learn basic sewing stitches, make a wild pom-pom, tassels, "wool daisies," felt flowers, and (you'll believe it when you see it) even knit a corsage for your next big date.

Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing
By Satoshi Kitamura
If you like Wallace and Gromit, Raymond Briggs, or manga you’ll like this odd children’s book. The drawing and inked voice bubbles match the quirky story. "When Georgina, Hubert, and Gogol – three sheep- have their fleecy coats stolen from the beach while they are swimming, they suspect some wily wolves have pulled the wool over their eyes." Elliott Baa, private detective to the rescue. Sheep and yarn-fanatics will be happy with the tangle that occurs in the end. Share this book with a little sibling or play catch with a yarn ball.

Dutch Warmblood?

What breed of horse are you? Your Result: Thoroughbred Your fast, hyper and occasionally spookish, though with the right care can be very, very sweet. Your perfect for the race track because of your natural unfaltering speed and quick reflexes.
Welsh Pony
Appaloosa
Quarter Horse
Dutch Warmblood
What breed of horse are you? Make Your Own Quiz

This illustration of a carriage or buggy came from an 1880 advertisement for John P. Miller's Carriage & Wagon Manufactory of Polo, Illinois.

Flapdoodle

Excerpt from Flapdoodle

A hungry boy gave a penny for a custard pie. He throwed that pie through a brick wall nine feet thick. Then he jumped over the wall and broke his ankle just above the elbow. When his cat started singing "Yankee Doodle," the boy jumped into a dry creek and drowned. Meanwhile, the cat grabbed off nine turkey gobblers that were passing through town. Then he climbed into a tree with them and lived happily ever after. Forty years later to the very day the boy saddled up an old hog and drove past that house where nobody lives. And everybody stood at the window and waved "Hello!"

Ocean views

Visit the ocean for 11 seconds



Try a subject search in the catalog for sand paintings. Read an old-fashioned book and also try an e-book or ELECTRONIC BOOK. Ask at the reference desk how to read books scanned page by page into the computer.




Watch the ocean sands alter with the wipe of a hand. This video is under 3 minutes for quick enjoyment.

Spanish/English poetry

The poem in both Spanish and English below is transcribed from the book Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being young and Latino in the United States. Ask a librarian where to find it on the shelf to read more heart-felt and honest poetry.

Llena mi mundo con musica
por Sandra Maria Esteves (translated from the English by Isaac Goldemberg)

Llena mi mundo con musica
amaneceres y ritmo de hierbabuena
melodias de barro y congas quintiando
necesito que me armonicen
asi que llena mi mundo loco con sonidos suaves
una mano calida para tocar
cosas sencillas
llena mi mundo estancado con vibracion
en contrapunto
hasta que cada dedo de cada mano de mis dos brazos
cobre vida en todo mi unico cuerpo
no un compas aislado
o una nota desafinada sin tono
en algun silencio miscelaneo
no quiero ahogarme en Ay benditos!
asi que por favor,
llename con algo real
depende de, pon mi hora de andar a
quiero un sonido
que me despierte
y me haga a vibrar.

Fill My World with Music
by Sandra Maria Esteves

Fill my world with music
sunrise and mint julep rhythm
earthen melodies and congas quintiando
I need to be harmonized
so fill my crazy world with soft sounds
a resonance of graffiti melody
a warm hand to touch
simple things
fill my stagnant world with vibration
in counterpoint
till each finger of each hand on both arms
is alive in my one entire body
not one isolated beat
or a flat note with no tone
in some miscellaneous silence
I don't want to drown in Ay benditos!
so please,
fill me with something for real
depend upon, set my walking time to
I want some sound
to wake me up
and work me out.

DRAW!

Do you draw?

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
If you think you will never be able to draw more than a stick figure, this guide is for you. See the proof in the pictures as inexperienced artists transform their skills into masterworks in mere days. Draw upside down, with your left hand, one eye closed, and be amazed at the results. If this sounds like a commercial, check out the book yourself...for FREE. Who's to say you aren't the next Picasso?

Drawing: The Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need To Be The Artist You've Always Wanted To Be by Kathryn Temple
Do you like to cartoon, but wish you could draw a realistic animal or person? Try this book for yourself and share it with the younger generation. It's never too late or too early to pick up a pencil and draw.

Whatcha Mean, What's a Zine?: The Art of Making Zines and Minicomics
By Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson with contributions by more than 20 creators of indie comics and magazines.
"Explores the diversity and creativity that can be captured in zines, handmade mini-comics or magazines, with helpful tips and practical suggestions for writing, producing, editing, and printing one." Have you ever heard of zines? Think homemade graphic novels that are mailed and dropped all over the country. Picture miniature, book-sized, folded pages of some kid's personal view of the world. Music reviews, philosophical rants, love poems, drawings, or whatever. Friends...strangers...anyone can trade or buy one for the extremely minimal cost of production (~ making copies on a Xerox machine). Zines are not an organized industry yet. They may never be. Read this book to get a hint of what a zine can be, then, decide if you want to make your own. Visit the Zine Book, "Reading from the Fringe" for links and more info about zines.

Draw 50 Cars, Trucks, and Motorcycles: The Step by Step Way to Draw Dragsters, Vintage Cars, Dune Buggies, Mini-choppers, and Many More by Lee J. Ames
This book is one is a great series providing step-by-step instructions on how to draw vehicles, horses, sports players, ... check these others out at your local FCPL branch. Ask a librarian to help you find them and then browse. This particular book features the Ford Thunderbird, a corvette, mustang, dump truck, unicycle, and all sorts of other transportation contraptions.



Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud

Read this exhaustive course in how to create visual stories for the practical comic artist. The book is entirely drawn, with the author's wisdom contained in speech and thought bubbles. Some of the general ideas divided by chapter are: writing with pictures, stories for humans, the power of words, world building, tools, techniques and technology, your place in comics, and making comics. This book "presents instructions for aspiring cartoonists on the art form's key techniques, sharing concise and accessible guidelines on such principles as capturing the human condition through words and images in a minimalist style." Visit Drawer Geeks where cartoonists and animators offer their unique takes on characters like Santa Claus, the Grinch, Alice in Wonderland, Darth Vader, etc.

How to Draw Hip-Hop by Damion Scott and Kris Ex

Start with a few simple shapes and within pages you will be designing never seen before mics, ghetto-blasters, back-packs, female and male heads, dancers, cops, graffiti walls, and more colorful locations where good music would be found.

World Freehand Circle Drawing Champion

Buzz off

Picture from PHIL/CDC

The Flea and the Fly

A flea and a fly got caught in a flue.
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
Said the flea, "Let us fly."
So together they flew
through a flaw in the flue.

Eat your greens

Ogden Nash

Parsley
Is gharsley

Baseball books

Baseball
James Kelley

Like all of the DK Eyewitness Books, this photo-filled resource takes you through the history and nitty-gritty details of this particular topic, the grand old game of baseball. Did you know that the first baseballs were improved from "soft and mushy" to a "harder ball that traveled farther and lasted longer." It's all in the insides! Yarn is wound tightly around a rubber center, then covered by leather and stitched.

What do you know about the Major Leagues, uniforms, international games, or the World Series? Test your knowledge by taking the quiz in back. Check this book out to discover the answer to these unusual questions:

What is a can of corn?"

"Who were Big Poison and Little Poison, Dizzy and Daffy, and Tony C and Billy C?"

Heat
Mike Lupica

This author is strongly recommend by a local teen baseball player. Mike Lupica has written about baseball, basketball, football, and sports dreams. Here is one description: "Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof." Read the first chapter to see what you think.

Strike Two
Amy Goldman Koss

Girls play ball, too. "Haley's hope of spending the summer playing softball and hanging out with her cousin Gwen is ruined when her father and her uncle land on opposite sides of the local newspaper strike."

The Kid Who Only Hit Homers
Matt Christopher

Chapter 1 (teaser)

"The Hooper Redbirds were having their third practice session of the spring season and Sylvester Coddmeyer III, a right-hander, was batting.
Rick Wilson hurled in the first pitch. It looked good and Sylvester swung.
Swish! He missed it by six inches..."
Who is George Baruth?
Sylvester becomes a phenomenal baseball player one summer when a mysterious stranger resembling Babe Ruth befriends him."

(Check out this book to read more.)

Fast Food Rap

Superfoods Rx: Fourteen Foods that will Change Your Life
Steven G. Pratt and Kathy Matthews
Try this one (of many healthy reading choices) to complement a fast food diet. Instead of greasy fries, meet blueberries, turkey, and beans. Protect yourself from obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's in this practical guide to eating:

Now who's going to sing an order at the grocery store?

Variations on Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating her curds and whey,
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away

Mother Goose: Little Miss Muffet (1946)


Read more about Little Miss Muffet and other familiar nursery rhymes on Nursery Rhymes - Lyrics and Origins!

Little Miss Muffet


The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet
by Guy Wetmore Carryl

Little Miss Muffet discovered a tuffet,
(Which never occurred to the rest of us)
And, as 'twas a June day, and just about noonday,
She wanted to eat--like the best of us:
Her diet was whey, and I hasten to say
It is wholesome and people grow fat on it.
The spot being lonely, the lady not only
Discovered the tuffet, but sat on it.
A rivulet gabbled beside her and babbled,
As rivulets always are thought to do,
And dragon flies sported around and cavorted,
As poets say dragon flies ought to do;
When, glancing aside for a moment, she spied
A horrible sight that brought fear to her,
A hideous spider was sitting beside her,
And most unavoidably near to her!
Albeit unsightly, this creature politely
Said: "Madam, I earnestly vow to you,
I'm penitent that I did not bring my hat. I
Should otherwise certainly bow to you.
"Though anxious to please, he was so ill at ease
That he lost all his sense of propriety,
And grew so inept that he clumsily stept
In her plate--which is barred in Society.
This curious error completed her terror;
She shuddered, and growing much paler, not
Only left tuffet, but dealt him a buffet
Which doubled him up in a sailor knot.
It should be explained that at this he was pained:
He cried: "I have vexed you, no doubt of it!
Your fists's like a truncheon." "You're still in my luncheon,
Was all that she answered. "Get out of it!"

And the Moral is this: Be it madam or miss
To whom you have something to say,
You are only absurd when you get in the curd
But you're rude when you get in the whey



Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme
Chris Roberts
"The seamy and quirky stories behind favorite nursery rhymes." Read all about Rub-a-dub-dub, Three blind mice, Yankee doodle, Baa, baa, black sheep, This old man, Pop goes the weasel, and more... The author is a London librarian who has collected pages of political subversion, religious hatred, past popular sports, and subtle naughtiness. Prepare to change your view of those childhood lullabies that rocked you to sleep. Mommy!!!!!!!!!!