Kids And Parents

Today my daughter Rachel is really happy. She has got the gift, seventth book about Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The success of the novels among our children has made aothor Rowling the highest-earning novelist in history.
“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love! The only protection that can possibly work against the lure of power like Voldemort’s! In spite of… temptation and suffering… you remain pure of heart, just at you were at eleven when you stared into a mirror that reflected your heart’s desire… and it showed you only the way to defeat Voldemort, and not immortality or riches”. This is just a short quotation from the book. What can I say - right words.

here is several icons with quotes from Harry Potter that I’ve found in inet for her.

One of the most important part of kid’s books or may by the most important is illustration. That’s without question.
Very often we remember exactly illustration much more than the text in. Some artists create imagines that we remember through life over. One from the most favorite artists who created such memory imagines is still Mabel Lucie Attwell. We remember this beautiful pictures, we prefer books with her illustrations and we love carton and animation based on pictures as well. Her books still bring us and our kids into a wonderful land.

So, Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964).
She became a household name during the 1930’s and 40’s with her illustrations of pudgy and appealing toddlers. The public’s insatiable appetite for her illustrations generated an extensive market for Mabel Lucie Attwell ephemera.

Childhood & Education
Mabel Lucie Attwell was born 4 June 1879 at Mile End in London, the ninth child out of ten children born to a butcher.
She studied at both the Regent School of Art and Heatherley’s School of Art, but because she disliked formal training and grew bored with copying, she never completed either course. She preferred to illustrate her own fantasies.
Professional Career
By the time Attwell was sixteen years old, she had enough drawings of fairies and children to bring them to a leading London artists’ agency. The lukewarm reception that she received was upsetting to the young artist but short-lived. She was notified several days later that not only had all the drawings sold, but that they wanted more!
In 1908, Attwell married the illustrator Harold Cecil Earnshaw, and had two children, Peter and Peggy. Their daughter Peggy was the inspiration for the typical Mabel Lucie Attwell toddler and achieved immortality through the illustrations in Attwell’s books. Peggy (Wickham) later became a talented artist and illustrator in her own right.
Between 1905 and 1913, Attwell illustrated ten books for W. & R. Chambers, providing 4 to 8 color plates for each. By 1911, she was designing postcards and greeting cards for Valentine & Sons of Dundee.
She illustrated two gift books for Hodder & Stoughton. The first was Peeping Pansy in 1918 by Marie, Queen of Roumania. The Queen even invited Attwell to stay at the Royal Palace in Bucharest. The second book was Peter Pan and Wendy by J. M. Barrie who admired her work and personally requested her to illustrate this edition.
During Attwell’s career, she designed advertisements, posters, calendars, figurines and wall plaques. During the First World War, thousands of her colored postcards were sent to cheer up the troops in the trenches. One of her most famous drawings, ‘Diddums’, was made into a doll, a typically Attwell styled boy doll which was to be found in nurseries around the world. In 1937 and 1938, Princess Margaret commissioned her to do her personal Christmas card. Attwell also contributed to several periodicals and annuals. In 1943, she started a comic strip in the London Opinion called “Wot a Life”. Sets of Mabel Lucie Attwell China were used in the Royal Nursery of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, and later Prince Charles.
In 1945 Attwell moved to Fowey, Cornwall to live with her son Peter. She died at home on 5 November 1964.

I remember when I had first one I was so happy that one could hardly to find the right words to express all my feelings. We are continued in our kids. We start new life with first symptoms of the pregnancy and it is truth. What is your first pregnancy symptom? It could be morning sickness, sudden urges to pee a lot, you get hungry, or you get nauseas a lot, mood swings, bigger belly. And as a rule you miss your period. If so you have to get a pregnancy test immediately. After getting positive pregnancy test our emotional responding does change as pregnancy advances. We must be ready to become with total selflessness because that’s what a new baby will require and to talk to our doctor or nurse if we have any questions about. Sometimes women worry they will not be able to recognize the early sign of labour.

However, it is very unlikely that this will happen. Most of them go into labour two weeks either of their delivery date. A small number of babies are born premature and some are overdue which means labour needs to be started off by your doctors. A ’show’ as labour is about to begin is mucus leaves the vagina because the plug at the neck of the womb comes away ready for the birth, the mucus is usually a pinky color. In this case it’s important to phone your doctor or hospital for medical advice. After that your waters can break at any time. Some women’s waters break before labour. Other women’s waters don’t break until labour is well under way. Anyway if you see that or have another pregnancy symptom discharge you have to contact your doctor or hospital, as labour is about to begin. By the way there are a number of very useful medical resources in internet that could help you to find right answer to any your question, to learn a lot of important things: from to have or not to have sex while you are expectant mother till how to pick up best name for your baby.
Be safe and happy in your pregnancy!