Kate Howe | Whimsical Winter Announcement @katehowereads | Uploaded December 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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The Prompts:
1. Read a picture book
2. Watch a cozy old movie
3. Read a retelling
4. Recreate a meal you heard about in a book
5. Read something written or set 1901-1950
6. Read a wintery poem
7. Read a children's chapter book
8. Read something in an idyllic setting
9. Watch a period drama

Recommendations:
1. Read a picture book:
Mr. Putter and Tabby series by Cynthia Rylant
Poppleton series by Cynthia Rylant
Angelina Ballerina series by Katherine Hollabird
Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem
Beatrix Potter books
Terrible Storm by Carol Otis Hurst
Learning to Ski with Mr. Magee Chris Van Dusen
The Circus Ship by Chris Van Dusen
Winter Cake by Lynne Rae Perkins
A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin
Magic Ramen by Andrea Wang
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Doctor DeSoto by William Steig
The Seven Silly Eaters by Mary Ann Hoberman
Richard Scarry books
Babar booksby Jean de Brunhoff
Toot and Puddle series by Holly Hobbie
Mercy Watson series by Kate DiCamillo
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
Cendrillon by Robert D. San Souci
Ella's Big Chance: a Jazz Age Cinderella by Shirley Hughes
Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin
Cinderella - Sarah Gibb

2. Watch a Cozy Old Movie:
- On Moonlight Bay
- You Can't Take it With You
- To Catch a Thief
- Glass Slipper
- The Sound of Music
- Oklahoma
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

3. Read a Retelling:
Cinders: The Untold Story of Cinderella by Finley Aaron
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
Ella Enchanted by Gayle Carson Levine
Son of the Deep by K.B. Hoyle
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Cinder by Marissa Meyer, Cress, Winter
The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow

4. Recreate a Meal You Heard About In a Book:
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Hard boiled eggs, cold sausages, bread and butter sandwiches, jam puffs, fizzy lemonade, and orange squash

5. Read something written or set 1901-1950
- Mrs. Arris Goes to Paris by Paul Gallico
- The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
- Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace
- Beatrix Potter mysteries by Susan Wittig Albert
- Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
- A Room With a View by E. M. Forster

6. Read a Wintery Poem:
- The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell
- The Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily Bronte
- Winter: My Secret by Christina Rossetti
- Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
- First Snow by Mary Oliver
- Snow-Bound by John Greenleaf Whittier
- Winter-Time by Robert Louis Stevenson

7. Read a children's chapter book:
- Friendle by Andrew Clements
- All-of-a-Kind Family series
- Family Grandstand by Carol Ryrie Brink
- Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
- The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth
- Paddington series
- The Bell Family by Noel Streatfeild

9. Watch a period Drama:
- A Little Princess
- Footsteps in the Fog
- Mr. Malcolm's List
- The Moonstone
- Larkrise to Candlford
- The Road to Avonlea
- The House of Eliott
- Shadowlands
- Brave
- Cinderella