Do you have a voracious reader in your home? Is he a boy around age 7/8yrs old? My nearly 8yr old son is just devouring books lately! The problem is finding books that are high enough quality for him, on a topic that interests him. He does enjoy the , but seems to be tiring of the formulaic plots lately. […]
(continued from the last post) I think “” was the hardest to get through the beginning…The entire first half felt less intriguing than the other books we had read in the series up til then and I found myself a little disappointed, but persevering, knowing that it would get better. And WOW DID IT. That one had a hum-dinger conclusion […]
I started talking about this series in April, when we first discovered it and started reading the first volume (which included 2 of the books: “Charmed Life” and “The Lives of Christopher Chant”). At that point I was intrigued and had just started enjoying this series…Now we have worked our way through 5 of this series and are halfway through […]
I found the book “The Pinhoe Egg” on the shelf at the library recently (facing out on top of a shelf…that is such a brilliant way to get people to find new books to read! I find things for my kids and myself like this all the time!) and checked it out as it looked interesting…lots of magic and such…Then […]
I found this little gem on the shelf at our local library and just had to share it before I returned it! This picture book captured my interest because of the crisp, colorful and friendly illustrations and kept my interest and earned my respect by its content. A very cute, simple book, it shows families all over the world planting […]
I found this on the library bookshelf and was intrigued…Just finished it today…was reading to see if my 9.5yr old would like it and if it was appropriate. I am handing it to her with a big thumbs up! This is the story of 2 very hard headed and mostly unlikable (by their peers) girls from 2 very different cultures. […]
I think this is my favorite Frances book…it’s about how Frances won’t eat anything but bread & jam, won’t try anything new. So mom feeds her bread & jam for breakfast/lunch/dinner and even snacks…until she finally gets sick of it and broadens her horizons. Very cute! Check out all the Frances books! And I also highly recommend the audiobook as […]
This is a touching story of a little girl who rescues a caterpillar & decides to raise it to adulthood. With the help of her grandpa, she builds a beautiful “Butterfly House,” & cares for the caterpillar as it goes through it’s metamorphosis. A great book for introducing the concepts of metamorphosis & caring for nature’s creatures. And the illustrations […]
I can’t believe I never read this book as a child. I would have loved it! I recently finished reading this book to my 9yr old and both agreed it was a great book! A little boy befriends and tames a brown bear in Alaska, before its statehood. The small town in which they live is less than keen on […]
My daughter and I just loved this story about a little girl (Emily) that finds out she is half mermaid. Her mother is phobic about water and doesn’t allow her daughter to ever enter the water even though they live on a houseboat surrounded by water! When she finally does experience being submerged in water Emily finds out that it […]
This was an AMAZING book! My daughter and I were absolutely on the edge of our seat reading this together (I read it aloud to her when she was 8). I recommend it to everyone! Here’s my original review of this book. It does have a sort of dark feel at times…but nothing that got to the point that I […]
The artwork is what drew me to this book…then the simple beauty of the innocence of babyhood made this one a keeper for me. Its absolutely darling!
This is an African folk tale about the infamous “Anansi the Spider.” There are many stories about Anansi…this one is about how the moon came to be in the sky. Anansi gets into trouble and his sons form a rescue party…They save him, and Anansi wants to reward the one who saved him (with the moon)…but who saved him? (They […]
