Prairie Patch Works: December 2011

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Prairie Patch Works: I am a retired high school English teacher from Emporia, Kansas on the edge of the beautiful tallgrass prairie called the Flint Hills. In addition to writing and telling stories, I enjoy gardening, cuddling my corgi, cooking for friends and family, and collecting junk (primitive antiques). When husband Duane and I visited the mock-up of the Abe Lincoln cabin at the museum in Springfield IL, we felt right at home. It was full of our stuff. We live on 20 acres three miles west of Emporia. We have horses, dogs, cats, and four kids who have blessed us with 5 grandchildren. The smartest move I ever made was to marry a veterinarian. Keeps the vet bill under control. I am retired and Duane is trying to. We love to travel but we also love to come back home to our family, animals, and gardens. Beyond our pasture gate is the prairie filled with wildflowers and birds, sun and wind, snow and stories. I love this place.

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Grandma's Prairie Patchwork color book now available

Grandma has some Kansas pictures to color. She has created quilt blocks of a sunflower, meadowlark, covered wagon, buffalo, one-room school, cottonwood tree, grain elevator, wheat, dairy barn, tractor, bronc buster, longhorn cow, wind mill, hand pump, steam locomotive and caboose, catfish, wild geese, and a red-tailed hawk.

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About "Raccoons in the Corn"

This book review was posted on Amazon, where "Raccoons" are available. The book is also for sale in Emporia at Town Crier Bookstore, Prairie Pieces Quilt Shop, and Bluestem and at Jim Bell's in Cottonwood Falls. It is also available at Doyle Creek Mercantile in Florence and Watermark Books in Wichita.

Five out of 5 stars... Great for the Classroom!

November 7, 2010 By Jan Traylor, Elementary Instructional Strategist, USD 253 Emporia Kansas.

This review is from: Raccoons in the Corn (Paperback) I was thrilled to find this clever book with its catchy phrasing. As a veteran upper elementary teacher, I could see numerous ways to use this book in the classroom to help my students improve their writing and reading skills. The book's varied and enjoyable sentence structure makes it a great model for how to write to keep readers interested and engaged. The use of delightful descriptive words creates vivid images of the activities almost to the point of allowing the reader to taste the corn itself! The author did an excellent job of developing the characters personalities (raccoons included) allowing for great discussions on characterization in the classroom. You leave feeling like you know these people personally. The story line has enough action to keep smaller children engaged while the use of some higher level vocabulary lends itself to enriching older students. I also appreciate the life lesson the farmer's wife taught on how to react to disappointment with her problem solving ending that includes sharing. Even adults should find this to be a fun read.

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