It’s our last week before starting school, and we’re spending it in Narnia and Middle Earth. The Narnia Challenge inaugurated a Narnia-fest that shows no signs of letting up anytime soon. Since the Challenge concluded, I’ve read The Narnian and Till We Have Faces. The girls have listened to The Last Battle in audiobook form, [...]
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Barbara hosts The Week In Words, an opportunity to share some quotations we’ve read over the last week. I thought that in honor of our new pet, I’d select a few quotes from rabbit stories. Can you identify them? Here goes: He spoke of Moonwood the Hare who had such ears that he could sit by Caldron [...] It’s Read Aloud Thursday at Hope is the Word, and I wanted to mention this little book by Charlotte Zolotow: If You Listen. Both daughters liked it. It’s about a little girl whose father is far away for some reason — perhaps in the armed services, perhaps in a profession that involves traveling — and [...] I learned so many interesting facts reading Alan Jacobs’s The Narnian that I wanted to share a few of them in a post. They might interest others just as much. I want to preserve them for future reference, too. ********** First, the discussion of Lewis’s writing of the Narnia Chronicles. What was on his mind as he [...] This week we’ve been enjoying the illustrations of Trina Schart Hyman in several books: Barbara Rogasky’s Rapunzel and The Water of Life, and Margaret Hodges’ Saint George and the Dragon, which I’m spotlighting. Saint George and the Dragon tells the story of Spenser’s Faerie Queene in picture book format. The flyleaf explains that [...] I’ve read in a few different places lately that Edith Nesbit’s short story “The Aunt and Amabel” may have provided inspiration for Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It was published in a magazine when he was a boy, and it concerns a girl who, banished to the formal [...] The Land of Narnia: Brian Sibley Explores the World of C. S. Lewis is another book for young Narnia fans. Its cover bears the same yellow “World of Narnia” emblem as A Book of Narnians, it’s the same size, and it’s just as attractively produced. But where A Book of [...] Ever wondered what the Naiads, Dryads, and Maenads of Lewis’s Narnia chronicles looked like? How about the wer-wolves and hags? In James Riordan’s A Book of Narnians you and your children can be treated to full color illustrations by Pauline Baynes, paired with descriptions paraphrased or lifted from the pages [...] Based on Amy’s glowing review, I picked up this book at the library and the girls and I read it over the weekend. Older Daughter and I loved it and would second Amy’s recommendation. My younger daughter has listened to the audio version of DiCamillo’s Tale of Despereaux, and based [...] True confession: I like woodchucks. I know they eat people’s gardens, and dig holes that can endanger horses’ legs, and generally make nuisances out of themselves. But still, people are pests sometimes too, and I like them. Why not these super-sized hamsters? My father’s friend Charlie once had a pet woodchuck named [...] |
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