Weekly Edition #20: The Children's Day edition
Art by Lucy Fleming
Happy Children's Day, everybody! :) This newsletter was put together to bring out the child in all of us.
Some poetry, for starters:
Art by Mandy Sutcliffe
Don't Quit by Edgar A. Guest
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and debts are high,
And you want to Smile but have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won if he'd stuck it out,
Don't give up though the pace seems slow,
You might succeed with another blow.
Often the struggler has given up,
When he might captured the victor's cup.
And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown,
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar,
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit,
It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit.
Other amazing poems to read this week: (full poems in attached link)
"I’m making a pizza the size of the sun,
a pizza that’s sure to weigh more than a ton,
a pizza too massive to pick up and toss,
a pizza resplendent with oceans of sauce.
I’m topping my pizza with mountains of cheese,
with acres of peppers, pimentos, and peas,
with mushrooms, tomatoes, and sausage galore,
with every last olive they had at the store." -A Pizza the Size of the Sun by Jack Prelutsky
"If I were in charge of the world
A chocolate sundae with whipped cream and nuts would be a vegetable
All 007 movies would be G,
And a person who sometimes forgot to brush,
And sometimes forgot to flush,
Would still be allowed to be
In charge of the world." -If I were in charge of the world by Judith Viorst
"there is no answer
but loving one another
even our enemies, and this is hard.
But remember:
when a man of war becomes a man of peace,
he gives a light, divine
though it is also human.
When a man of peace is killed
by a man of war, he gives a light."
Frozen Dream by Shel Silverstein
I'll take the dream I had last night
And put it in my freezer,
So someday long and far away
When I'm an old grey geezer,
I'll take it out and thaw it out,
This lovely dream I've frozen,
And boil it up and sit me down
And dip my old cold toes in.
Recommended Listening: 500 Miles - Inside Llewyn Davis On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan 12 HOURS of Studio Ghibli (Sleep Music) Cartoon Network theme songs 20 Best Podcasts for Kids
L-O-V-E - Nat King Cole
How Bizarre - OMC
Links of the Week:
The thousand faces of Sabine Timm + Food Art Ideas
Getting Kids Interested In Poetry
Children’s Drawings Turned into Finely Crafted Jewelry + Things I Have Drawn + Father turns son's doodles into absurd animals
Stories for Ways & Means (resharing because it absolutely must be on this newsletter) Illustrated Children's Books From India That Offer Perspectives We Need The Illustrators behind Your Favorite Children’s Books
On the TAP website: Amazing artworks submitted by children + Deepika R. Bhardwaj's illustrations about being a mother + Amit Charles' illustrated poem
Calvin and Hobbes strip by Bill Watterson