Innholdsfortegnelse for February 2021 i Ladybug Stories, Poems, and Songs Magazine for Young Kids and Children

Max and his mommy are going to make a sock puppet for Kate.  “I think she would like . . . a snake!” says Max. Max glues two plastic googly eyes on a clean, striped sock. He adds some blue-green hair, snipped from a ball of yarn. “Can you put your hand inside?” asks Mommy. Max wriggles his hand in, and Mommy glues on a red felt mouth. Max is ready to surprise Kate! “Happy Valentine'sssss Day, Kate,” hisses the silly snake puppet. “Why thank you, Max!” croaks a polka-dotted frog from behind the sofa. Kate has made Max a valentine surprise sock puppet, too! …

Natalie is drawing a picture for her family. She grips a pencil and carefully draws the face of each person. But how do I draw the hands? Natalie wonders. I’ll ask my sister. She skips down the hall to her sister’s room. Sarah is typing away on her computer, working on a project for her English class. “I’m drawing a picture. Could you show me how to draw the hands?” Natalie asks. “I can’t right now. I’m doing my homework,” Sarah says, staring at her computer screen. “But it will just take a minute,” Natalie says. “Not now, Natalie!” “Aw, man!” Natalie heads down the hall. She looks at her picture again. It needs color, she thinks. The markers are on the top shelf in the hall closet. I’ll ask…

When woke up there was a on his wall. A small, bright, and beautiful jumped out of and put on his clothes. He walked out of the room and closed the. Slowly he opened the and peeked in. The was still there. In the kitchen, was making breakfast. “There’s a on my wall,” said. “It’s just like a big outside, only smaller and brighter.” “This I must see,” said. ran to his room and opened the. The was still there. “See!” he said. “Was it raining in your room?” asked. “Did you draw the with your crayons? Why do you have a on your wall?” “I’ll bet I know,” said from the doorway. Then he walked to the on the bookcase. “Now there’s a on ’s shirt,” said. “I know!…

Once upon a moonless night, a long, long time ago, a royal chef was hard at work preparing pizza dough. He hoped to make the biggest pie the world had ever seen! A pizza pie to satisfy the fussy king and queen. Because the ball of dough was huge, he had to work outside. He patted it, and flattened it, and stretched the dough out wide. Perhaps the chef was too ambitious making such a pie, for when he tossed it in the air . . . it spun into the sky. And there it hung, among the stars, a shining disk of dough. And that is how a pizza pie became the moon we know.…