What We’re Reading This Week, December 9

We’ve been re-visiting many of our favorite Christmas titles including Olivia Helps with Christmas by Ian Falconer, Max’s Christmas by Rosemary Wells, Merry Christmas, Ollie by Olivier Dunrea, Little Rabbit’s Christmas by Harry Horse, The Little Drummer Boy by Ezra Keats, and Minerva Louise on Christmas Eve by Janet Morgan Stoeke.  We’ve also discovered a [...]

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What We’re Reading This Week, November 19

M and her dad are reading Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris by R. L. LaFevers.  She loved Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos. book but found this one a bit too scary the first time they tried it.  This time, she’s completely into it.
M and I read The Yellow House Mystery (Boxcar Children #3) [...]

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Cybils Reviews, November 17

I’ve gotten to read so many wonderful books as an Easy Reader and Short Chapter Book panelist for the Cybils.  I’m trying to review the ones that I’ve enjoyed the most and especially ones that M has read or I’ve read to her. You can see more Cybils book reviews here.
Alice’s Shooting Star by Tim [...]

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Thanksgiving Books

I looked at my list of favorite Thanksgiving books for kids and realized it was quite short.  I’d love to hear more suggestions!
Here are our favorites:
In November by Cynthia Rylant
Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende and Harry Devlin
Squanto’s Journey by Joseph Bruchac
Over the River and Through the Woods by Lydia Maria Child
Thanksgiving on Thursday (Magic Tree House [...]

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What We’re Reading This Week, November 4

M is reading the first story in The Norby Chronicles by Janet and Issac Asimov with her dad. She and I finished up Ballet Shoes by Noel Streffeild and read Dolphin Treasure by Wayne Grover.  Now we’re reading Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop.

Every time I sit down to read with C before her [...]

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Movie

My husband and I finally got a chance to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince this weekend while my parents were visiting and willing to babysit.  It was on at Asheville Pizza, so we got to eat dinner and enjoy a party atmosphere complete with prizes thrown into the audience and a drawing.
After reading [...]

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What We’re Reading This Week, October 22

M had a big week.  She realized she was ready to start reading some short chapter books on her own.  So she’s been reading Dolphins at Daybreak and Lions at Lunchtime, both part of the Magic Tree House series.

I read Surprise Island, the second book in the Boxcar Children series to her, and now we’re [...]

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What We’re Reading This Week, October 15

M has been sick this week so we’ve spent lots of time cuddling and reading.  She’s been wanting long picture books and short chapter books so we’ve read: Magic Treehouse: Eve of the Emperor Penguin, 365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental, Capyboppy by Bill Peet, Dophin Adventure by Wayne Grover, Lyle Lyle Crocodile by Bernard Waber, [...]

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Cybils Reviews, October 14

How Oliver Olson Changed the World by Claudia Mills
Oliver is a third grader who wants freedom to make his own choices.  His parents, his mother in particular, worry constantly about his health because of a serious illness he had at age four.  Despite the fact that he is healthy now, his mother obsesses over germs [...]

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Library Trip, October 8

We went a little crazy at the library this week.  But like I told one of our librarians, it’s nice to have something (books) that I don’t have to say no to.  Unless they were to select a book with inappropriate content, I let them check out as many books as we can carry to [...]

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