Highlights Genies (November 2017)

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Not Playing the Referee

When you have more than one child, a lot of parenting November 2017 • Volume 5 • Issue No. 56
comes down to playing referee. The kids are constantly Editor, Publisher & Printer: Paresh Nath
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Let’s Read Together



4 Picture Perfect
5 The Adventures of Spot ™ page 20
6 Tex and Indi : Clean-up Fun
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12 Meera and Kiran: Ravi’s New Pet
20 The Older One
26 Today Is Different




Let’s Puzzle It Out


10 My First Hidden Pictures Puzzle
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16 My Leaf page 10
18 That’s Silly! ™

24 Look and Look Again: Time for a Feast




Let’s Do It


31 A Bus Ride for Your Photos
32 Stand and Sit page 34
33 One Step at a Time

34 Mini Pumpkin Pies






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By Heidi Bee Roemer
A big fancy house with a rectangle door
and little square windows—one, two, three, four.
A triangle roof. A circle of sun.
Three oval bushes. But wait! I’m not done.
I drew some nice flowers,
and here’s the best part:
My home’s filled with love,
so I added a heart.
Photo by iStock/
4 TM November 2017 mrPliskin and
Delhi Press
studio.

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By Marileta Robinson • Art by Ron Zalme




















Spot is SO sleepy. But he can’t fall asleep yet.






















It’s almost time for dinner. He doesn’t want to miss that!






















Spot has an idea. Now he won’t miss dinner.


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Clean-up Fun





By Lissa Rovetch • Art by Amy Wummer






























































“Yikes!” said Arizona. “I’m supposed to be babysitting kids

in a house, not piggies in a pigsty!”

“There’s too much stuff to clean up,” grumbled Indi.


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“Let’s play the ‘Where would I go?’ game,” said Arizona.

“What’s that?” asked Indi.
“You pick up one thing at a time and pretend to be it,”

Arizona said. “Like this—if I were a dirty sock, where would I

go?”

“For a walk!” said Tex.

“No, silly,” said Arizona. “In the clothes hamper. Now you
try it.”


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“If I were Captain Stretchy, where would I go?” said Tex. “In
the action-guy drawer!”




































“If I were a puzzle piece, where would I go?” said Indi. “In

the puzzle box—which goes on the shelf!”

In no time at all, the mess was cleaned up.


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“Good job! Now I have a tricky one for you,” said Arizona.
“If I were milk and cookies, where would I go?”

“In our mouths!” Tex and Indi said at the same time.

“Exactly,” said Arizona. “Let’s go get a snack!”


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Butterfly Pizza Banana Envelope











Ring Toothbrush











Egg Peanut Carrot







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By Jody Jensen Shaffer
Vinnie Vole, in velvet vest,

Does magic tricks in Spanish.
His very best trick comes at lunch.

He makes his veggies vanish!



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Art by Gary LaCoste
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Ravi’s New Pet




By Anuradha Krishnan
Art by Sonal and Sumit



Meera and Kiran






































Meera and Kiran knocked on the door of their friend Ravi’s

house. Ravi was excited when he opened the door.

“Meet Toby,” said Ravi, showing them a small beagle puppy, a
gift from his grandpa.


Ravi lifted Toby by his tail. Toby

started yelping.
“Put him down, Ravi!” Meera

exclaimed. “You’re hurting him!”

“But I want to play with him,”
said Ravi.

“Toby is a baby. You must

be gentle,” Kiran said. He

sat on the floor next to Toby

and gently stroked his fur.





















“I can’t wait. Let’s play, Toby!” said Ravi. He bent down

very close to Toby and stared into the pup’s eyes. Toby gave
a little yelp and backed up a few steps.


“Don’t get so close to him. Would you like someone

standing so close to you?” asked Meera.

“No,” said Ravi.




























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Ravi brought out a soft ball.
















“Catch, Meera,” he

said, throwing the ball
at Meera.








Meera caught it and threw it near the door.

“Catch, Toby,” she said. Toby grabbed it and dropped the ball

before Meera. Ravi watched Meera and then did the same.
Now Toby dropped the ball before Ravi.






































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Ma walked in, carrying Ginger in

her arms. Seeing Ginger, Toby

wagged his tail. “Yay!” shouted
Ravi. Toby got scared.

“Shhh,” said Ma softly.
“Toby can hear you even if

you whisper!”


















Meera filled Toby’s bowl with water. Toby lapped up some
water and huddled close to Meera. With a clean, soft comb,

she brushed his snowy fur. Toby closed his eyes and smiled.

Now Ravi knew how to treat his pet kindly!
































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My Leaf





By Kate Dopirak • Art by Mattia Cerato

A leaf was stuck on our car’s windshield.
It stayed there

Past the park,
Past the school,

Past the police station,

Past the firehouse,
Past the post office,

And into our garage.

So I took it inside,
Taped it to a piece of paper,

And hung it in my room.











































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Find the path
the leaf took. Then
count the cars and trucks
in this neighborhood.

What else will you count? 17

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hat’s Sil y!





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sil y things

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The Older One





By Eileen Spinelli
Art by Rose Mary Berlin




One morning,

Little Bunny

accidentally

spilled pancake

syrup on the table.
Mama said, “Try

to be more careful,

Little Bunny.”


























But when Baby Bunny

plopped a pancake onto

her head like a hat,
Mama simply laughed.








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When Little Bunny burped during lunch, Papa said,
“What do you say, Little Bunny?”

“Excuse me,” said Little Bunny.







But after lunch, when

Baby Bunny burped—
three times!—Papa didn’t

even notice.

Sometimes it’s no fun

being the older one, thought
Little Bunny.









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After dinner,

Mama lifted

Baby Bunny
from her high

chair. “Bedtime,

Baby Bunny,”

said Mama.

















































“Good night, Baby Bunny,” said Little Bunny,

giving his little sister a big kiss.



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But Little Bunny had lots of Then Papa and

time before he had to go to bed. Little Bunny read

He played with his cars and trucks. his favorite book.































And he still had time to color in his coloring book.

Little Bunny thought, Sometimes, it’s nice to be the older one.



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Time for a Feast




Art by Eric Barclay





































































How are these pictures the same?


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How are they different?


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By Sandy Asher
Art by Lynne Avril






























































Mom walks me to school. Esha’s dad drives.

Kartik rides the school bus. Same as always.



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We sing songs.

























We build with blocks.






































We listen to a story. Same as always.



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But then our teacher says, “Time to get ready!”

We put on costumes and climb onstage.










































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We peek through the curtains and see Mom,

Esha’s dad, our whole school. Even Kartik’s bus driver!



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The curtain opens. Music plays. We start our show.


And now . . . everything is different!


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By Valerie Deneen
Y ou Ne

• Scissors • Glue
• Cardboard tube • 3–4 small photos
• Yellow construction paper • Markers or crayons

Adult: Cut two 2-inch 1. Fold a sheet of
sections from a
cardboard tube. yellow construction paper
Cut a slit in the in half, and cut a small
middle of each. square from one end.





2. Use glue to attach your photos.

Decorate your bus with markers or crayons.



3. Place the bus into the slits

in the cardboard tubes.





























Photos by 31
Delhi Press Studio and
Guy Cali Associates, Inc.

An Action Rhyme








By Connie Bergstein Dow
Art by Rob McClurkan .

Photos by Delhi
Stand up tall.
Press Studio
Stomp your feet.












. Shake your arms. Take a seat.










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Stand again.
Turn around.




















Both kids
g

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. Make a silly face. . Then sit down.
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Some stairs are wide. Some stairs are narrow.





















Some stairs
are curvy.


Some stairs
are colorful.




How will you build
stairs for your
building?






















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Small photos: wide stairs by flickr/electro_n1k; narrow stairs by iStock/Nadezhda1906; 33
curvy stairs by iStock/KatarzynaBialasiewicz; colorful stairs by iStock/ranasu

By Pat Tanumihardja


• Flour Adult: Preheat the oven to 190°C. Spray a 12-cup muffin tin with vegetable oil.
• 2 batches of 9-inch
cookie cake dough . On a floured surface, roll one batch
• 15-ounce can of pumpkin of dough into a 15-inch-by-12-inch
• 14-ounce can of rectangle, about 1⁄16 inch thick.
sweetened condensed milk
• 2 eggs Repeat with the second
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon cookie cake dough.
• ½ teaspoon salt















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. Press a 5-inch-wide

drinking glass or bowl into
the dough and cut out
three circles. Gather the
scraps of dough into a ball.
Roll out the ball of dough

and cut two more circles.
Repeat with the second
cookie cake dough.
























. Fill each mini pie

with the mixture until
. Put the rest of . Press the circles of it is ¾ full.
the ingredients into dough into the bottom

a bowl and stir until and up the sides of the Adult: Bake until the pastry is
golden brown and the filling is set,
well blended. muffin-tin cups. about 25–30 minutes.

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Photos by Guy Cali Associates, Inc. Background pattern by iStock/woning

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