Chapter Books
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My Side of the Mountain
The girls and I finished our reading of My Side of the Mountain yesterday. It left me pondering the stark contrasts between 2012 and 1959, when Jean Craighead George’s Newberry winning classic was…
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I Saw Three Ships
The girls and I read Elizabeth Goudge’s I Saw Three Ships last year for Christmas, but it didn’t wow any of us. In fact, none of us even remembered it. This year was…
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Rufous Redtail
I read this book when I was around 10, and I’ve always remembered it as one of the best. I didn’t remember all the details, but I remembered some of them. Mostly I…
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The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic
What do you do when your ten-year-old daughter hands you a book and says, “You have to read this. Then, I want to see it on your blog. And I’ll help.” You read…
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The girls and I finished The Invention of Hugo Cabret early last week. Now three years old, this story — which I’m going to call an experimental novel — won a Caldecott in…
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Coraline
It’s with some degree of guilty pleasure that I liked this book. It’s a children’s book, much creepier than my usual fare, and it’s been around since 2002. It’s even been made into…
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Dragons Galore
It’s Edith Nesbit all the way this week. Well, for the purposes of this post, that is — I’m writing about Edith Nesbit. In our reading we’ve zipped about among some other writers…
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Read Aloud Thursday: Burgess Bird Book
It’s no secret around these parts that we’ve been bird watching all summer. Thornton Burgess’s books have been a nice fit as read-alouds, and recent titles have included The Adventures of Mr Mocker…
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Longlegs the Heron
We’ve been reading and enjoying Thornton Burgess’s Longlegs the Heron. A friend loaned us a copy of this difficult-to-find book after reading this post, and as food for our ongoing heron interest it…
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Adam of the Road
Every now and then, I have a dream. I’m supposed to be playing the piano somewhere, but I can’t find my music. I search and search, each effort leading to new delays. I…