Monday, June 17, 2024

Sieglinde de Francesca

I think I may have ALL of the books by Sieglinde de Francesca! I love her book on drawing with block beeswax crayons using only the primary colors. It's great for grade 1. And her book on teaching the Fables block is an absolute must-have for grade 2. And we adore the Limindoor Woods series!

love these special bookmarks with
The Golden Rules of Gnome!


Right now things are very Limindoor Woods around here.

Zac is reading A Donsy of Gnomes as his SSR book. I am reading the class The Way of Gnome as our lunchtime read aloud story. And Zac's bedtime read aloud is Mother Comfrey, which he got from the Easter Bunny this year. The lavender color of the cover is perfect in an Easter basket!

Zac has read so many of the Boxcar Children books since he absolutely fell in love with reading and now we are looking for something to be a bridge to rows of small print close together. I like the Limindoor Woods books for this because she uses small print but she skips a space between each paragraph. So they are perfect for him. Here are the titles in that series:

The Way of Gnome

sample pages

Gnomes & Friends

sample pages

The Gnomes' Rosette

sample pages

Nine Gnome Nights

sample pages

A Gnome-in-Training

sample pages

Mother Comfrey:
On the Wanders & Wonders of an Exceptional Gnome


The ones we don't have -- and which I just finished ordering for Zac -- are The Seven Sleeps: A Donsy of Gnomes' Dream Adventures and A Mouse & His Gnome: The Quest for the Silver Spring. Also, her website is lovely and I highly recommend checking it out! https://teachwonderment.com

I also have her collection of Irish stories, The Guilds of Tir Na nÓg: A Collection of Celtic Dream Tales, but I have not yet had a student read it.


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1 comment:

Eva said...

I did not know she wrote more books! I have the block crayon one and also like it. Thanks for the blog post!