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Monthly Archives: April 2010
The Singing Hill
Meindert DeJong’s The Singing Hill (1962) is not a book I had heard of. But I’ve read The Wheel on the School and loved it, so when I saw this on the library shelf I picked it up. I wondered: would it make a good read-aloud for us? The main character is a little boy … Continue reading
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The Mother-Daughter Book Club
Shireen Dodson’s The Mother-Daughter Book Club is a wealth of inspiration and practical information about starting a multi-generational reading group. As the lengthy subtitle suggests, it tells “How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh, and Learn Through Their Love of Reading.” It’s an idea I was thinking about, and a friend … Continue reading
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The Love Letters
Madeleine L’Engle’s The Love Letters (1967) weaves together two stories: one from today, and one from yesterday. Charlotte Napier, fleeing to her mentor (and mother-in-law) in Portugal to rethink her troubled marriage, comes upon a book that relates the inner turmoil of a woman in similar straits centuries earlier. In reading The Letters of a … Continue reading
The Dragon of Og
I’ve never seen Rumer Godden’s The Dragon of Og on a list of classic children’s books, but if it were up to me it would be there. I picked it up at the library last week and read it to my kids, and all of us were charmed. I have Rumer Godden classified in my … Continue reading
The Mouse and His Child
Back when I did my Celebrate the Author Challenge post on Russell Hoban, I learned that he was far more than just the author of the Frances books. These, and Harvey’s Hideout, were the ones I was familiar with from my own childhood, but Hoban has any number of novels and stories for grown-ups on … Continue reading
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