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Beautiful photographs highlight the patterns visible in everyday life. I look forward to sharing this with my students, followed by an immediate exploration of patterns in our library, classroom and school. I can see older students being inspired to create their own book of patterns.

A truly wonderful book, with lots of lovely recipes. Once my ban on purchasing books comes to an end next year, this will be purchased. Great for a comforting treat.

I love the premise but it didn't deliver as much as I had hoped. The majority of the recipes were from a handful of books, I was hoping for more variety. Some of the 'recipes' weren't even that . e.g toast with butter, bacon, hard boiled egg etc.

The only two recipes I will be trying from this book are Paddington Bear's marmalade buns and Bruce Bogtrotter's chocolate cake (from Matilda).

all reasonably simple

Great for learning numbers 1-20. Has multiple examples. eight to nine year olds. third and fourth graders.

An adorable cookbook based on recipes found in children's literature.

Jane puzzles over the origin of the phrase 'lashings of ginger beer' as she's sure it's not found in any Enid Blyton books. I suspect it was first used in The Comic Strip's spoof Five Go Mad in Dorset in the early 1980s. A fun book - I felt exactly the same as Jane about Heidi, and the Chalet School stories. Will definitely try making some of the jammier treats.

My daughter really enjoys reading this book! The pictures helped her tremendously understand what a pattern is! After we finished reading it she wanted to go and find patterns everywhere. It was easy to follow and very well worded. I recommend it to anyone who wants to work on patterns with their child or student.

"Ruby, Violet, Lime.. Looking for Color" by Jane Brocket is a non-fiction picture book. This book educates children on colors, it identifies which colors are primary, which are secondary and which you can mix together to get an end product. This book also, discusses how colors can be pale or bright and can come in various shades. When each color is brought up, so is examples of real world objects of that color, such as an apple or flower, building or shoes, etc. I would recommend this book for children ages pre k-2 because the sentences are more complex than most color books. I would absolutely use this book in my classroom.

Jane Brocket's Clever Concepts books combine crystal clear photographs and easy to understand language to introduce various ideas to young readers (numbers, shapes, patterns, etc.). In this book, she uses beautiful photographs of foods with vibrant colors to show what superlatives are. She states very simply at the beginning of the book exactly what superlatives do, they are used to compare.

She poses questions and makes statements using superlatives such as: Are pineapples the prickliest? Is frosting the fluffiest? Wibbly, wobbly foods make us laugh.

She asks the reader what they think such as "What are the stickiest foods you have eaten?" or "Do you have a favorite food you like to chew and chew and chew?" The vocabulary is fun for children. Words like wibbly, wobbly or slimiest or prickliest will get children laughing and thinking.

This would be a great book to use as a read-aloud in a classroom setting to introduce the concept of superlatives, or as an example of the various situations in which such descriptions might be used in speaking and their own writing.

I would recommend this book for school libraries and for teachers to have there own copy to use throughout the year. Families would also enjoy this book when discussing new foods to get their children to try new things.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book discusses the art concept of texture through using descriptive text and photographs of everyday items children can relate too.
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This book teaches about the art concept of color by using descriptive text paired with vibrant photographs.
3 books

This book uses photographs of real everyday objects to teach about patterns!
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This math book met all dimensions and criteria that a math book should have. The concept was to show shapes in the real life items. It shows students that everything has a shape, whether its your food or your toys, shapes are everywhere. It was engaging and everything was a natural connection to math, containing layers of meaning. There was a sense of wonder and discovery as you looked around and determined the shapes in front of you.

Spotty, Stripy, Swirly What are Patterns is an informative book for children about the patterns we see in every day life. This book has large bright pictures and throughout the book you see patterns from all kinds of things like patterns at the grocery store, patterns in candy, in clothes and in nature.

I really love patterns. I love seeing them everywhere I go. I also really enjoy teaching patterns to children and love to use real life examples so I think this book would be great for that.

In the classroom we would talk about patterns. I would have a take home assignment for the children to find patterns with their families around there home and if they go to the store. I would let them tell the class about the patterns that they saw.

2/3 through and being intrigued by the fact that, of the books that inspired her, I remember more clearly the ones I read in my childhood. Otoh, I read [b:Anne of Green Gables|8127|Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)|L.M. Montgomery|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1309203168s/8127.jpg|3464264] for the first time just a year or two ago, and reviewed it here on GR, but I remember nothing that Brocket does. I find it intriguing that children & adults read books that differently, if indeed my experience is representative.

Also, so far I know that I will not be giving this 5 stars. Brocket makes a token effort to translate the British experience into American, but I'm still thwarted every few pages. Also, it's too short and superficial.

Great concept, though, and some wonderful ideas and recipes. I know I'll be looking to read some of the books that inspired her, whether or not I try any of the activities and foods.

Ok - done:

I do like this justification for the older stories, from the introduction: [C]hildren benefit enormously from a wide window on childhood, and not simply a mirror that reflects their own - and I firmly believe that books are the best way of providing this."

I'd like to try to special hyacinth vase that lets one grown the bulb indoors in the winter and lets one see "a swirling mass of white roots" and then enjoy "masses of sweetly scented flowers." (Inspired by [b:The Secret Garden|210297|The Secret Garden|Frances Hodgson Burnett|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172717417s/210297.jpg|3186437] and [b:Tom's Midnight Garden|543086|Tom's Midnight Garden|Philippa Pearce|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175653706s/543086.jpg|530403].)

I'm glad we never really needed a "Get-Better Box" but it sounds lovely. When one is too ill to read, rather than resort to tv, I think a pretty shoebox filled with trinkets and simple toys and tidy crafts would help while away some time. (From [b:My Naughty Little Sister|245939|My Naughty Little Sister (Naughty Little Sister, #1)|Dorothy Edwards|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173102697s/245939.jpg|238290])

One can also grow cress seeds on well-dampened cotton wool, plated in a sunny window, and in five days be ready to have a picnic a la' [b:The Wind in the Willows|5659|The Wind in the Willows|Kenneth Grahame|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327869222s/5659.jpg|1061285].

So, yes, a nice little book if you're interested, but I won't push it on you."

I've made two of the recipes so far (the cherry muffins and the nutmeg cake) and both were delicious. Heirloom in this case means only mostly British, so there are all kinds of discoveries to be had here. Highly recommended!

This book went through a variety of random things and the texture.

Summary: This book takes the reader through a tour of textures, providing a pump amount of descriptive vocabulary with various examples the demonstrate the words.

Personal Reaction: Great read for when introducing textures. has examples of things that are more than likely to be something that the audience has seen/felt/heard before.

Extension Ideas: Great to use for vocabulary in younger classes. Descriptive words can be read when discussing adjective and adverbs in middle childhood classes. A scavenger hunt could be done when finished reading, having each child or teams of children search for various textures.

Honestly, I went into this book thinking, I’m not gonna like it. I don’t think of myself as a super feminista, but, hey, I’m a lawyer and before that I was an “engineer” (yeah, I never could seriously take that playing on a computer is “engineer”-like). So I’m used to playing in the man’s world. And all about woman-power in that world. In fact, no one was more shocked than I when 1) I succeeded when I taught myself to crochet (have I mentioned how that came about? mental note: story on how I got started with the textile side of life) or 2) when I wanted to do more and started eyeing quilting. Even as I learned to love and not apologize for my textile domestic inclinations, I still spurned cooking, and the like.

So imagine my surprise to read along with Ms. Brocket and think: right on sister! The Gentle Art of Domesticity is first and foremost, for me anyway, very inspiring eye-candy. Every page is filled with giddyness-inducing photographs of projects, home-y moments and the like. And I really liked that. The next important part for me was its overall message that domesticity isn’t about perfection. It’s refreshing to read and view passages from someone who, let’s face it, seems to have her craft mojo pretty much in the sphere of perfect tell you that is not what it’s all about.

I loved her account of her discovery of craft, her need to learn not to be an apologist for it. And most importantly how wonderful she seems to feel just going with the flow–doing the things she loves.

All that said, I got the book from my library, and I’m glad I did, but I would have been disappointed had I purchased it. It’s a wee-bit on the disjointed side, and about half-way through I started to lose interest. Maybe it’s just me and my overall interest in domesticity. But I think it just isn’t something that will stick with me.

I’d recommend anyone getting it from the library and enjoying leafing through it on a rainy afternoon. And if you are a coffee-table kind of girl, then you might want to buy it because the pictures are lovely and you would enjoy them again and again.

My overall rating: better than I thought. Much better.

It was great to see how some of the food and drink I've read about in vintage children's books are made.

Not a book I'd necessarily suggest for the home shelves, RUBY, VIOLENT, LIME is definitely a book worth checking out of the library, or housing in classroom.

The book is ALL ABOUT COLOR, of course. Brocket uses saturated and bright photographs to introduce color vocabulary and color concepts -- like what primary colors are and how other colors are made of mixtures of red, yellow, blue.

I like that the pictured items are not in the same shade or tone. Brown, for example, is shown by tan cookies, tawny bricks, a terra-cotta pot and chestnut cubes of fudge. And pink is shown as the lightest blush, salmon and in your face bright pink.

If I were to have any qualms it would be how she infers what colors mean to other people. Not everyone views white as pure and clean. Nor black as strong and serious.

But this book is filled with color and textures and things to name and discuss. It could be shared with a toddler or a younger elementary aged child.

This is a simple counting book from one to twenty, that features bright photographs of everyday items. It's eye-catching, simple and attractive - showcasing the many ways that each number can be represented,

"7 Can you count how many eggs in the bowl?
How many fruits in a row?
How many socks in a box?
That's right, seven."

The focus here is simple. There are an infinite amount of ways in which any number may be represented, and numbers may be found everywhere!

City kids are typically taught the sights and sounds of the farm, just as farm kids are taught the sights and sounds of the city. A child’s exposure to the world writ large should not be limited by where she lives or what her family can afford. Do expect, however, that some kids will know the familiar refrigerator magnets, fallen leaves and school clock in 1 Cookie, 2 Chairs, 3 Pears, but will not have an immediate connection with embroidered tablecloths, wax oil crayons, fresh cherries, or perfectly decorated confections. Still, it’s a simple, refreshing and visually appealing.

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Another great book with pictures showing all the different things that are texture's.

A book describing texture and the many different forms in comes in. Kids will love the beautiful pictures in this book.