Words that rhyme with alexis - Prime-Rhyme It has been a real treasure in our family. My mom had 6 children of all ages to take care of. Homesteading, making candles and soap, storing food for the winter. I love all of Beatrix Potters books. My daughter is a voracious reader, so it was fun to introduce her to the historical characters and watch her love of reading bloom. I love to explore and learn new things. As a child I loved The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgsen Burnett. Growing up I had a fascination with fairies and woodland creatures. I would bury myself in their adventures and ever since then have been fascinated by Puffin birds. Joe was my favorite. , were giving away five copies. The Little Women was my favorite. As an adult, I have read it again several times. As a child, I really enjoyed Slavic folklore stories. I wish I had kept them to read to my children and now grandchildren. La collection de livres qui ont marqu mon enfance est Martine. I fell in love with science fiction, horror and the melding of the two. They used things from a dump to furnish it. The catch, though, is that I didnt like reading myself. I especially loved the one on nature & space. To this day, I find myself noticing colors, patterns, and textures within nature, and amongst animals and people to see hidden, and yet, conspicuous beauty. But when I was 20, we went to Chincoteague and I stood out on the beach at 4 a.m. to get a good spot to watch the ponies swim. Charlottes Web cracked me open when our teacher read it to my 3rd grade class. Thats why I love reading Erins stories about growers all over the world! on 125 Fun Rhymes About Food: Tasty Rhymes For Kids & Adults, 125 Short Poems About The Arts: Poems That Will Inspire You, 125 Hilarious Jokes About Food That Are Actually Funny, 225 Short Poems About Food: Food For Thought, Learn What Oils Are Good For Your Skin And Face & How To Use Them, The Average Person Spends $1,200 A Year On Snacks. I still collect tons of books as an adult and I believe its an addiction. I loved reading as a child! Praying for safety and speedy recovery from the damages of the storm. I was thrilled that Nancy was clever, adventurous and independent. I was a big fan of Archie and Veronica comic books, so much so that I wanted to name my daughter Veronica which I still think would have fit her well. As a child the library was a world of wonders unfurling in each book. I found my happy place in the world of books. My favourite books were the Enid Blyton Magic Faraway Tree and Wishing Chair series because they were filled with magic and adventure. When I was little, I wanted to be a veterinarian and loved books about animals. They influenced me in several ways, I loved the sense of adventure that Pooh and his friends always had, whether catching hefalumps or playing Pooh sticks plus they were always kind to each other. I read every Nancy Drew book and moved to Agatha Christie as I got older. As a child I quickly devoured all the young adult chapter books I could get my hands on. I remember being in awe of how vast our universe is, which makes me even more impressed with the smallest details in life. I still have trouble putting a book down! . Book looks amazing! I loved poetry books and landscape photography books. I was not an avid reader as a child., but I think I read every biography our small school library had on the Presidents wives. I always loved the choose your own adventure books as a child. By: Robert Lopshire. I remember my children running through our garden choosing sweet scented flowers, soft cabbage roses, spicy with fragrance, sunny daffodils, and the promise of life renewed in a garden. I did like to listen, my mom would read to us when we were sick. It is funny to me and interesting to my family that I am such a bright, colorful, fun person, with this love of elegant flowers, but I have such a passion for all things horror and macabre. When I was younger, my favorite books were fantasy stories. I know its a Christmas book, but my grandpa gave it to me when I was eight and told me he still hears the bell every Christmas. I would spend hours looking at paintings and photography and dreaming of adventure. I also loved Aesops fables. I loved all of the Little House on the Prairie books and now I have a little homestead and *trying* to raise and grow all of our food! Thank you for sharing Zoes story and new book with us! Of these, Beatrix Potters Peter Rabbit was one that I read over and over again wondering what chamomile looked like and its healing properties as a tea. The first books I remember reading growing up were the Magic Tree house series. I loved reading about peoples lives and learning from them as a child. What a wonderful labor of love. I relish any opportunity to spend time wandering the open spaces and regional wonders of my adopted Southern California, and thank the Lupine lady for inspiring me to love nature. Its a soothing, sweet tale that I love still. Well, Ive had to reach back many decades to remember the books Ive read as a child. I loved that Australian flora and fauna were celebrated in books. The Hardy Boys mysteries took me on adventures far away from the hard work of our small truck farm and produced a great reader as an adult. I also have a large amount of pop up books grandkids love them as well as myself! Thanks for the opportunity to win a book, it looks gorgeous. All of these books have strong young female protagonists that love nature, love learning and creating and best of all, adventuring. From making butter to growing vegetables, overcoming hardships and the importance of family. Today I still like to press flowers and as of spring 2021 I am now an urban flower farmer. I just had my first baby and I teared up when I opened a gift that someone had given us, a copy of Frog and Toads adventures! Such a lovely conversation! Basil E. Frankweiler, the thought of running away and spending the night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and then solving a puzzle involving art and history was very appealing! I read all the Nancy Drew books when I was young and loved each one. It is a frozen Wonderland outside. As I child, I read whatever I could find. My favorite was The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Pollaco. As a child I read this book over and over again. Besides that, this book is absolutely stunning! My Mom would make weekly trips to the public library. As a child I was most interested in books with strong female leads, like Little Women! It helped fuel my love of investigating and problem solving! I love this interview and learning about Zoe and Sue. Thanks for this chance to win a copy! I suppose it did influence me as I look at it now with my children and creating little natural worlds with flowers now! I still have my original copies with well-worn creases from childhood. But I do love to share my love with my friends by posting them on my Instagram page. Imagination and creativity help shape me into a thought provoking and problem solving adult working in my career field. Growing plants has been my lifes passion. Also , loved I spy books with my daughter which makes this offering fun. Later on in elementary school Charlottes Web was an all time favorite. The Narnia series too has influenced our lives and brought joy in so many ways. As a child the chronicles of Narnia were favorite of mine. As an adult and educator, I have shared it with many others too. Its the illustrations that really bring them to life for me, but also the beautiful British languagesimple yet more complex and with a somewhat challenging vocabulary for young American children. I remember reading Dracula for the first time and just being completely captivated. I read Nancy Drew, Golden Books(including The Golden Encyclopedia), Beauty & The Beast, all the Winnie- THE POOH books, Walt Disneys Secrets of Life, and Alice in Wonderland! Flowers are definitely a spirit animal for me. It opened my eyes to a vast universe of other peoples and cultures, as well as profound suffering and injustice. Back in the 50s, there used to be a collection of Golden Books, and my favorite was The Happy Family. That led to planting my first seeds (nasturtiums), progressing to tall garden phlox, coneflowers, lilies and dahlias. I feel so blessed! One of my favorite books from childhood is A Time To Keep, by Tasha Tudor. Yet another reason why I am excited to view Lost and Found. Ive lost both my parents to cancer, but they were both big flower growers (hundreds of dahlias every year!) It wasnt until looking back for this comment that I realized how much they had shaped my life. Loved The Secret Gardens mystery and happy ending. Her imagination and her boldness were so inspiring to me as a little girl. These creatures, usually horses or dogs, often overcame great hardship in order to find their way home or win that race. There was an element of sentimentality but also often a sense of adventure and wonder. I loved the Bobbsey Twins series (showing my age!). I cant remember a single book so to say but a lifestyle, a refuge, a runaway . Thank you so much for this opportunity to remember and to cherish what I love! On February 12, tropical storm Gabrielle hit the North Island of New Zealand, causing gale-force winds, mudslides, and severe flooding which has displaced thousands of people in rural communities. I loved reading Janette Oke and Beverly Lewis Amish based fiction books that involved English people finding Amish friends and falling in love with each other as well as Janette Okes Canadian West Saga series. I loved Roald Dahl, Madeleine LEngle, Beverley Cleary, and also raiding the art and travel books in our library. I read whatever I could get my hands on, it was an escape to different lives and worlds. The book I will always remember that helped me to this day is ( Are You There God , Its Me Margaret ) . Thank you for your support! I have always been interested in drawing and painting, so I remember these pictures and their subtlety to this day. Now my favorite books are those about roses and flowers and gardening. The drawings were so beautiful and the flowers and fairies were as magical then as they are now. As an adult, I continue to love stories of all kinds, and always take a book with me, wherever I go. Congratulations on the new beautiful book! As a child, I loved Atlases. She always let us pick them. It was a little girls dream come true. What a beautiful thing to have a flower farm! I loved the mystery and suspense. I read everything I could get my hands on. I loved all books when I was a kid, but one stood out and I found myself going back to it throughout my life. Going to the the books fairs were my highlight of the year. My favorite book was a color book. I believe that reading fueled my love for learning and being able to really listen to people. Escape through reading has been central to my personhood since a very young age. The Bobbsey Twins books were favorites as well as Black Beauty. My mother sacrificed a lot to raise me and my siblings and brand-new clothing was always a rarity in our family! Now I sometimes have to remember it, because in everyday life with five children it is easy to forget. Matilda was a favorite! LOL! Let us know in the comments below. I would bring them all to my mom. 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I loved the Anne of Green Gables series as a child-it helped me appreciate the small beautiful things in life and see life as an adventure. is. When I was young, my Mom had a set of leather bound books that had Aesops Fables in them. As a grownup with littles Ive decided you can never be too old picture books. thank you for this I would love to spend time lost among the flowers of Lost & Found. 2. pearl, earl and whirl all rhyme with girl in my book BaskerviIle. My love for flowers came from helping my grandmother tend to her beautiful garden. It was published in 1957. They inspired my imagination and play so much. The love of dirt and growing your own beauty in a vase. As a child I really enjoyed the collections of choose your own stories. I got so lost in the Thoroughbred book series as a young reader because I had a wild passion for all things horses. I read the ones I had over and over. I think I liked to read them so much because I was able to dream of a happier place. A pets food should be healthy and filling. I have enjoyed veggie gardening for 50 years. It shaped me as I grew and reminded me to always go for what I want because anything is possible! Thank you for sharing. My go-to books for reading, then and now, have always been science fiction! Zoe, I enjoyed reading about your love of flowers. Flower and garden books are some of my favs too! I just couldnt get enough of it. It looks like a wonderful book. Pop a food item on the plate and have its pair and one other object ready.