Pizza at Sally's


Pizza at Sally’s by Monica Wellington is a charmer of a picture book.  Perfect for the smallest of pizza lovers, this book looks at where pizza comes from, the ingredients, and how it is prepared.  Add in Sally’s helpful kitten and you have a real winner for small children.  The illustrations are an interesting mix of cartoons and photographs that are bright  colored and fun.  Don’t limit this to only toddlers, because emerging readers will enjoy decoding the labels on the cans in the story, finding the word pizza repeated again and again, and reading the words on the street sign page.   This one is a great addition to your pizza-flavored storytimes or a cozy read at home when pizza is on the menu.

MTV on NPR

One of my favorite parts of a long drive to work is listening to Morning Edition. This morning they featured MTV at 25: From Upstart to Parent Network which takes a look at the current state of MTV and at why they show fewer videos on the parent network now. Personally, I had despaired that they had lost the grandeur they had in the 80s, but I had not taken into account that teens are now accessing them more online for music than on the air. Interesting listening for anyone working with teens.