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Pet Mouse Feeding

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Your pet mice need a balanced diet in order to be healthy, playful, and happy. In fact, their diet needs much of the same basics a human diet needs! Your mice need carbohydrates: this is basically the main portion of the mouse diet. Whole or rolled oats, hay, stale whole wheat bread, cooked whole wheat pasta. Your mice need vegetables: vitamins and minerals come from fresh vegetables like greens, carrots, peas, and more. Some veggies (or too much of a single veggie) can upset the stomach and leave you with a very messy cage. Your mice need protein: this can … Continue reading →

Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep – Joyce Dunbar

It’s late at night but little Willa Rabbit can’t go to sleep. What if she has nightmares? Her big brother Willoughby has the bunk above hers, and she calls out to him. He advises her to think of something happy, and then she won’t have nightmares. Like what, she asks. Patiently, Willoughby talks to her about all the things she has to look forward to the next day. Putting on her chicken slippers, wearing her blue and white jumper, eating a delicious breakfast, playing with her toys – tomorrow will be a beautiful day. Then he takes her to the … Continue reading →

Lottie’s Princess Dress – Doris Dorrie

In this darling picture book, Lottie is sound asleep in dreamland and does not want to get up, despite the fact that her mother will be late for work. In her dreams, she’s a princess, going to school in the castle, making crafts, and she does not want to leave her project behind. Finally and with great reluctance, she gets up, but she doesn’t want to wear her boring old clothes. She would much rather wear her princess dress! Never mind that her dress is thin and it’s starting to snow. It’s the perfect day to dress like a princess. … Continue reading →

Tristi’s Picks: Best Children’s/YA Books Read in 2006

To go along with the blog posted earlier about the best novels I’ve read in the year 2006, I’m sharing with you a list of books for children and young adults that I particularly enjoyed. Again, it was difficult to determine an order; I happened across some wonderful books this year. Click on the book title to read the full review. 1. “Ashes of Roses” by Mary Jane Auch. The story of the Triangle Factory Fire in New York City, I learned a great deal about the young immigrant workers who perished in the fire and the labor laws that … Continue reading →

Aunt Pitty Patty’s Piggy – retold by Jim Aylesworth

The charm in this children’s picture book is just that –in the pictures. Illustrator Barbara McClintock has created drawings of a by-gone time that tie in perfectly with the story and give the eye something beautiful to look at on every page. Aunt Pitty Patty has a pretty preposterous problem. She has purchased a piggy, a stubborn sow, who will not be good and go through the gate. Her niece Nelly has agreed to help, but she can’t budge the pudgy pig either. She decides to send up an S.O.S. to spur on the surly sow. First Nelly comes to … Continue reading →

Do You Have a Hat? – Eileen Spinelli

The cover of this children’s picture book features a child wearing a crazy orange winter hat standing in front of a snowy scene. Just perfect for the upcoming holiday season, I thought as I picked it off the library shelf. Each page features a different variety of hat and tells the reason we would want to wear it, all in cute rhyme. The characters are cute and engaging, making the pictures a delight to look at. What came as a pleasant surprise was the fact that not only does this book discuss different types of hat and why we wear … Continue reading →