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Holidays, birthdays -- whatever the reason you decide to whoop it up, there's a palooza for it!
John Lithgow -- star of stage, screen, and television and bestselling children's book author -- has spent years perfecting the art of the palooza. A palooza is an invitation to a creative adventure, a jumping-off point for making your own fun. All twelve months of the year are loaded with opportunities to palooza. Sure, you can celebrate all the familiar holidays and birthdays the way you always have. Or you can turn those days -- and every other day -- into something special: a real wingding of a palooza!
This book is packed with fifty-two of John's easy and original celebrations for kids ages three through twelve. Each palooza costs little to nothing, and if you learn a little about art or music or food or philosophy along the way, hey, who's complaining! So turn off the TV, roll up your sleeves, and dive into:
Beatlemania: Plunge into the exuberance and musical genius of the Beatles and have a party no one will ever forget.
Opening Day: The first day of the baseball season signals a new beginning and the chance for a family of fans to invent a new tradition.
National Bubble Day: Yes, it really is on January 8, but you can stage this party any day of the year.
Tilting at Windmills: Make like the madcap adventurer Don Quixote on Miguel de Cervantes's birthday.
Lithgow Party Paloozas! shows us how to make holidays unique and birthdays original -- and how to party with a palooza every day of the year.
Customer Reviews:
hilarious fun for kids.......2005-06-01
Do you want your kids to have fun? Of course. Do you want them to learn and grow and explore their worlds imaginatively? Certainly. But can they do both at the same time? If you don't think so, think again: this book is full of ideas that will both entertain your kids and encourage them to think creatively. Lithgow lays out crazy party plans that will definitely be a first in the neighborhood. If you're tired of the same old slumber party and birthday cake, this book is the answer.
Book Description
What's a palooza?
An activity that keeps kids from uttering those terrifying words, "I'm bored!"
You may know John Lithgow as star of stage, screen, and television or even as a bestselling children's book author. But his most important role -- parent -- was also the most fun. Whether building cardboard castles or putting on a King and I puppet show or conducting a treasure hunt in the National Gallery of Art, John has spent years perfecting the art of the palooza.
A palooza is easy to do!
• A palooza doesn't cost much (some cost absolutely nothing)
• A palooza is instigated or organized by parents but is quickly taken over by children
• A palooza may involve a computer but never the TV
• A palooza may use all varieties of arts and crafts
• A palooza may secretly teach children (and parents!) a thing or two
• A palooza is entertaining for the entire family
• A palooza depends entirely on the inexhaustible creativity, ingenuity, imagination, and sense of fun of young minds
This book contains 101 ideas for creating paloozas for children ages 3 to 12 wherever you are. Grouped according to interests and themes -- like art, drama, music, vacations, and birthdays -- and incorporating lots of extrapaloozas, fun facts for parent and child, and suggested additional reading for all ages, John's paloozas range from adopting your own soup can for a day to inventing your own secret language to establishing left-handed day or creating a self-portrait. A Lithgow Palooza! is an utterly unique collection of original activities guaranteed to transform any household from bored to bubbling with fun.
Customer Reviews:
Lithgow Mania.......2007-01-09
I was given this book as a gift, and our family loves it. Lithgow has an amazing mind--and he's just quirky enough to cater perfectly to kids. We have used many of the ideas in the book, and have even expanded by creating our own "paloozas." You'll never run out of ideas or creativity if you buy this book. He has several others out now too.
A world-wide wonder for children to learn and play from!.......2005-06-08
This is a playful, richly informative book giving lots of interesting ideas to make kids THINK and HAVE FUN. I checked out the book from the library and now I need my own copy... because the age ranges are so broad, it's a resource you will be using for YEARS. (And yes, even if you are an adult I can almost guarantee you'll find something new and fun!) Lithgow creates interesting paloozas, and side-notes offer more details and resources for further exploration. Some of my favorites:
Labyrinths (no, it isn't the same as a maze!)
Kolam
Backwards Party
5 stars is not enough!.......2004-05-02
Creative, innovative, superlative, outstanding. I just received my copy today and have read through one half of the book so far, but am very impressed. Every new parent should be given this book at baby showers. Lightow writes in an understandable, friendly conversation manner which is easy to understand.
As a left hander in my middle years who has struggled with the challenges and redicule of being "different", I especially appreciated the chapter relating to lefties. Creaping/galloping degeneration in usefulness of my left hand is forcing me to become ambidextrous in performing the simplest daily activities.
Thanks to a very literate and intelligent person for this great resource for parents.
My advise: Throw away the coloring books and remote controls and, buy this book.
Thanks to you Mr. Lightow for this enlighting and entertainig book. By the way, we loved Third Rock also.
CV
a delightful surprise.......2004-04-13
I'm a grade school teacher and I picked up this book looking (as ever) for a few new ideas for activities for my students. I hit the mother lode. This is as creative and refreshing a presentation of activities for kids that I have ever come across. These activities show a tremendous respect for the inherent creativity in children and prove that if you give them the time and inspire them with smart ideas, they'll create. And learn.
For example, "Bibliomancy" is a whimsical little "fortune-telling" game that asks the child to randomly choose a word from the dictionary to answer his own question about the future. So he has to read and understand the word, and then use some mighty creative logic to prove how the word points to his optimum outcome. "Color Concentration" adapts the classic memory game by using paint chips from the hardware store. So at once, kids are playing a familiar and fun memory game, becoming aware of the nuance of color, and reading those evocative paint color names. I loved "Museum Hunt," which gives adults a great way to thoroughly involve a child in the museum experience-or even replicate the experience from your own home using online art resources. And I will absolutely do "Palio" with my class next year, when they'll invent their own adaptation of the wild horserace that takes place in Siena, Italy every summer.
For the most part, the activities, or "paloozas," just require the adult to set it up and let the kids have at it. This book is a terrific resource for getting kids genuinely engaged in their own creative possibilities. It is also, by the way, a wonderfully enjoyable read for grownups, who are tossed rich and tasty tidbits on art and literature and culture that remind them of why they want to expose their kids to this stuff in the first place.
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It Stinks to Be Extinct!, Level 4 (Lithgow Palooza Readers)
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Animals need our respect and attention, too!
It Stinks to be Extinct! examines different endangered animals at risk of becoming extinct and explains what is currently being done to save them.
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Who’s at home in whose home? Animals eat, sleep, and raise their young in homes that look a lot different from yours! John Lithgow is dedicated to introducing developing readers to the wonderful worlds of arts and literacy. Turn the page and join his character, Marsupial Sue, on a fascinating, fun reading adventure!
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Sea Cows Don’t Moo! focuses on the gentle, slow-moving manatee, often called the “sea cow,” and describes its habitat and behavior, and the dangers that threaten its existence.
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Prepare for one soggy adventure!
Drop, Drip, an Underwater Trip gives readers a “behind-the-scenes” peak at an aquarium, highlighting the animals that live there and the people who work with them.
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Music Around the World, Level 3: A Musical Adventure (Lithgow Palooza Readers)
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ASIN: 0769642233 |
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From aboriginal hunting songs in Australia to gentle mariachi love songs in Mexico, discover how music is a part of people’s everyday lives all around the world! John Lithgow is dedicated to introducing developing readers to the wonderful worlds of arts and literacy. Turn the page and join his character, Farkle McBride, on a fascinating, fun reading adventure!
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Amazon.com's Significant Seven
John Lithgow kindly agreed to take the life quiz we like to give to all our authors: the Amazon.com Significant Seven.
Q: What book has had the most significant impact on your life?
A: Tellers of Tales, stories edited by Somerset Maugham, from which my father read bedtime stories to my brother, my sister, and me.
Q: You are stranded on a desert island with only one book, one CD, and one DVD--what are they?
A: Book: Shakespeare's Complete Works
CD: Bach's Mass in B Minor
DVD: Casablanca
Q: What is the worst lie you've ever told?
A: I have never lied (which is the worst lie I ever told).
Q: Describe the perfect writing environment.
A: A cabin in Montana with a window looking out into the woods.
Q: If you could write your own epitaph, what would it say?
A: On my gravestone: "The best thing in it."
Q: Who is the one person living or dead that you would like to have dinner with?
A: William Shakespeare
Q: If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
A: Flying would be nice.
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New from John Lithgow, the bestselling author of whimsical books for children and creative ideas for families
This kit presents dozens of creative and unusual ways for kids to keep themselves entertained and engrossed no matter where they are. The materials included-4colored markers, card-stock paper and"puzzle paper" perforated into puzzle pieces that can be broken apart, origami paper, jeweled chips, and magnetic tape-may sound ordinary, but it's Lithgow's extraordinary ideas for using them that make this kit a real winner!
Don't just ask, "What's a palooza?" Try one! A palooza is an activity guaranteed to take a kid's mind off of the long drive or day ahead and get him orher interested in something new, creative, and out-of-this-world fun. A palooza takes an everyday idea and makes something completely different-and totally unexpected-out of it. A palooza isn't just an idea, it's a way of thinking. Our Lithgow Palooza kits come complete with just about all the materials neededto make imaginations soar. Sculpt a racing seagull from chenille sticks! Make a puzzle only you can solve! Tons of ingenious and inspired brainstorms will soon have kids everywhere saying, "It's not just an idea, it's a palooza of an idea. "
Customer Reviews:
Rainy day fun.......2005-06-03
Lithgow has done it again with another great book to keep you kids both entertained and creative. His rainy day tips range from origami folding to mud painting to "po-art-ry," and there are so many that even the most obstinately bored child will find something to stimulate her mind. The book comes with a kit that contains all the hard-to-find items required for the projects, so parents won't have to drive around and hunt them down. I would recommend this to any parent with kids who love to have fun.
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What’s the difference between a monotreme and a marsupial? Young readers can read to find out!
Classifying Creatures helps readers understand the different animal families that make up the animal kingdom.
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Tweet, Oompa, Bumpety-Boom!, Level 2: A Musical Adventure (Lithgow Palooza Readers)
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What is that strum-strumming sound? Discover how each musical instrument––and its musical “family”––is unique in shape and sound! John Lithgow is dedicated to introducing developing readers to the wonderful worlds of arts and literacy. Turn the page and join his character, Farkle McBride, on a fascinating, fun reading adventure!
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