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Budgies on TV

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Project Runway All Stars

On the Prowl (Season 7, Episode 5)

The challenge is for the contestants to create animal inspired high fashion for a wild night out. The designers head to the Turtle Back Zoo, where they race to pick their muse animal. Ana Ayoung-Chee is the lucky designer who will design a budgie outfit.

Here is Anya’s design. She was not in the top (boo), nor the bottom (yay). They did not spend as much time talking about the budgie as they did some of the other animals on the show (boo), not did they spend much time featuring Anya working or talking about her design. Lame. But points to the show for selecting the budgie as one of the animal muses.

Cooper’s Book Report

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This month’s book is Who Let the Birds Out by Susanne Swart-Haink.

Sister and brother are busy in the garden when they notice the budgies in the aviary are going wild. What could be causing them to be in such a state? Brother thinks the budgies need to be free, so he lets them out. They settle in a big tree.
Jack the dog enters the aviary and begins to bark at something (spoiler alert: invisible [to the human eye] trolls!). The trolls leave the aviary and the budgies fly back in.

Cooper enjoyed this little book. She thought the illustrations were very colorful and interesting. Children can count the many hued budgies and see if they can find the trolls, bees, chameleon, mantis, etc. on the pages. Cooper liked that at the end of the book the budgies were free to enter and leave the aviary as they pleased.