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dabbe
Cheerful | Palmer Brown
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#haikuaday #haikuhive #haikureview

Cheerful the city mouse
wants to live in the country
with Mother Nature.

Such an adorable read. 💚

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Kshakal
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Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 5h
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GatheringBooks
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#Celebrate Day 12: This picturebook biography of astronomer and astrophysicist Cecilia Payne definitely fits #STEM title. As I noted in my review: “The book creators used the metaphor of a star being born as juxtaposed and layered into the life narrative of Cecilia” - more here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-rdg

Eggs Must read! 7h
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LitsyEvents
Snow-White and Rose-Red | The Brothers Grimm
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repost for @TheBookHippie

#CHILDRENSCLASSICREAD2026 FEBRUARY ?

Find versions of this tale.

Despite having a character with the same name, this story is not related to the fairy tale “Snow White” that inspired the 1937 Walt Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The modern German name of that heroine is Schneewittchen rather than Schneeweißchen. This story has little in common but the similar name of its fair-skinned girl.

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dabbe
Cheerful | Palmer Brown
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#SundayFunday @BookmarkTavern

This question came at a most opportune time as I read it today for the #CHILDRENSCLASSICREAD2026 led by @TheBookHippie. I'm going to go further than this book, though and state that I find eternal hope in many children's literature books. My ultimate would be THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN by E.B. White, but as I finished this one, I chose it. I'm going to have to read more children's literature this year to survive. 💚

BookmarkTavern True! So much hope is found in stories for children! Thanks for sharing! 22h
Butterfinger Totally agree. I love children's literature. 18h
dabbe @BookmarkTavern 💙🩶🖤 5h
dabbe @Butterfinger 💙🩶🖤 5h
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dabbe
Cheerful | Palmer Brown
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Pickpick

#CHILDRENSCLASSICREAD2026 @TheBookHippie
CHEERFUL by Palmer Brown is a quietly affirming children‘s book that treats longing and change with warmth and reassurance. The story follows a small city mouse who feels drawn toward a life in the country that would better suit him. Brown‘s delicate illustrations reinforce this outlook, depicting both city and countryside as welcoming spaces within a generous world. ⬇️

dabbe The countryside is not portrayed as an escape, but as a place where Cheerful‘s instincts finally feel at ease. For young readers, this can be deeply reassuring: wanting something different is part of growing, and moving toward it can happen gradually and safely. For this 60-year-old cynic, it gave me hope and reminded me that there is still a lot of beauty in this world.

I think I need more children's literature in my life these days. 💚
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TheBookHippie 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 It‘s like a little gift. 🙃 1d
dabbe @TheBookHippie 💚🎯💚 21h
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DinoMom This sounds lovely 💕 20h
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🥲📚💝. 13h
dabbe @DinoMom It truly is. 💚🎯💚 5h
dabbe @AnnCrystal 💚💚💚 5h
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kspenmoll
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Sunday before dinner wine & cheese & a book. Beef stew is simmering on the stove.

TheEllieMo Dinner, wine and cheese sounds lovely! 1d
Aims42 Chef‘s juice and snack is the best way to mentally prepare for dinner 😁👍 1d
TheBookgeekFrau I'm making beef stew too! 24h
kspenmoll @TheBookgeekFrau Like minds! It‘s such a comfort food-with bread! 24h
TheBookgeekFrau @kspenmoll 🙌🏼🙌🏼 22h
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MidnightBookGirl
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This past week the world lost this bright, beautiful, sassy, cat loving girl. We were lucky to have Willow for 5 years, and I‘m so glad she‘s pain free at long last. I bought this little one so many books over the years- her favorite, along with her cousins, was I Eat Poop, about a dung beetle. So, for Willow, gift or donate a book to child, read to them, treasure the memories. She shone so bright, we can still feel her warmth. 💚🎗️

MidnightBookGirl Some of Willowbug‘s favorite books 1d
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merelybookish A beautiful tribute! So sorry for your loss. 💔 1d
Bklover I am so so sorry! What a beautiful child! I know just the child I will read to❤️❤️ 1d
Ruthiella Oh my goodness. I am so sorry for your loss. 💔 1d
jen_the_scribe I‘m so sorry 💔 1d
julieclair What a beautiful girl. My heart aches for your loss. I have made a donation to a literacy project in Willow‘s memory. https://www.donorschoose.org/project/winter-wonders-stories-from-the-snow/998290... 1d
TheBookHippie So sorry. Will read one of these favorites to my readers. 1d
tpixie @MidnightBookGirl so sorry for your loss. I will read at least one of these to my grandchildren in her honor. 1d
SamAnne So sorry for your loss. What a beautiful smile. ❤️ 1d
Chelsea.Poole I‘m so sorry 💔 1d
TheBookgeekFrau 💔🫂 1d
lil1inblue 🫂💔 I'll fill our neighborhood free little library with these books in Willow's honor. 1d
ShelleyBooksie I am so sorry for your loss ♡ 1d
TrishB So sorry 💔 1d
dabbe What a fitting tribute. I am so sorry for your loss. Keeping you in my thoughts. 💔 1d
Susanita I‘m so sorry. 😢💔 1d
Amiable 💔 My deepest condolences—so very sorry for your loss. 🙁 1d
Gissy Sorry for your loss😔💔 1d
Jas16 I cannot tell you how sorry I am. 24h
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I am so terribly sorry for your loss. 💔😢 22h
MidnightBookGirl @julieclair that is so kind! 21h
Librarybelle I am so sorry for your loss 21h
KT1432 I‘m just so sorry to hear this. 💔 What a beautiful little girl 19h
quietjenn I'm so very sorry. 💙 19h
Zuhkeeyah I‘m so very sorry for your loss 💔 18h
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