Teddy Bear In A Suitcase

We will be visiting Washington, DC for half of Spring break, and will report about our reading and journeying adventures.

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During recess, some of the kids in Sylvia’s class form clubs and run around and chase each other with loose narratives and roles that seem to play themselves out pretty quickly. The GWPW club s...

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I grew up in a house where the sound of music often meant Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music." I had the lyrics down cold from hearing the album played over and over, and from banging ...

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Last year, we passed through the Museum of Natural History on the Harvard campus, and besides being blown away by the exhibit of some 3,000 glass flowers, replete with their labeled parts (create...

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'Tis the season for the Nutcracker to be everywhere. Apparently “The Battle of the Nutcrackers” will be on TV (Ovation channel) this holiday season, where viewers will vote on which version t...

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Watching new prints of Albert Lamorisse’s “White Mane” (1953) and “The Red Balloon” (1956) at the Film Forum yesterday, I was so riveted, I could barely catch my breath. I could barely ...

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Jeremy got me hooked on trolling the aisles of book stores when we travel. Indeed, when we were heading home from Guangzhou after our adoption paperwork was complete, and spent an overnight at ...

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Sylvia and Sasha punch out the tune to "Happy Birthday", and then roll it through the cylinder music box at the "Mechanical Musical Machines and Living Dolls" exhibit. Recommended Children's Bo...

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Just one elementary school trip to the Museum of the City of New York, and I had enough material for years of fantasy. I imagined myself inside the dioramas of times past and enacted scenes in ...

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