Clementine by Sara Pennypacker had been on my potential read-aloud list for a long time so when we noticed it on the library shelf a few weeks ago, we checked it out. M and I both loved it. M laughed aloud a lot, especially every time I read the vegetable names Clementine uses [...]
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Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
Posted in chapter books, reading on August 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
August Carnival of Children’s Literature
Posted in chapter books, picture books, reading on August 17, 2008 | No Comments »
The August Carnival of Children’s Literature is up at Chicken Spaghetti. I can’t wait to make my way through all the great offerings. Click on over and check it out!
My Ever-Growing TBR List
Posted in homeschool, non-fiction, reading on August 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I love lists. I make them constantly, on paper and on the computer. To do lists, shopping lists, packing lists (I have a folder of these for various occasions), wish lists, but my most favorite kind of lists are book lists. I have a long list of books to be read which [...]
Links to Share
Posted in homeschool, links, non-fiction, reading on August 1, 2008 | No Comments »
I haven’t been posting for the last few weeks because I’ve been too immersed in summer activities and traveling to visit family. I’ve been reading other blogs though. I try to catch up with blogs I like while I have my first cup of coffee and the girls look at books in their [...]
Package Arrival
Posted in homeschool, parenting, reading on July 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We always get excited when a big box of books thunks down at our door, and a few days ago we received a heavy box from Amazon loaded with goodies for all of us, a bird guide for M, a book of kitchen tips for me (though C wanted it for herself), The Illustrated Guide [...]
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Posted in reading on July 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’d been meaning to read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle for months and I finally got around to it last week. I love Barbara Kingsolver’s writing voice. We’ve expanded out vegetable garden this year and I’ve been enjoying creating new recipes with vegetables from our CSA. Still, I was sure what I would think of this book. [...]
Non-Fiction Monday: When Bugs Were Big
Posted in Non-Fiction Monday, reading, tagged dinosaurs, fossils, prehistory on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I read about When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm: A Cartoon Prehistory of Life Long Before Dinosaurs by Hannah Bonner in this wonderful post at I.N.K (Interesting Nonfiction for Kids). M and I had read a little about animals that existed before dinosaurs and we both wanted to learn [...]
The Minpins by Roald Dahl
Posted in picture books, reading on June 28, 2008 | No Comments »
I was looking through a shelf of paperback picture books at the library last week, always a difficult task while watching a speed-crawling baby since it’s hard to read their thin spines. Just as I was about to go scoop up said crawler and go, I spotted The Minpins by Roald Dahl. I [...]
Our Favorite Short Chapter Books
Posted in chapter books, reading, tagged read-alouds, short chapter books on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
We started reading chapter books to M when she was three. With the first ones we read, I wasn’t sure if she was comprehending much or not. But I knew we could (and most likely would) read them again in a few years, and I wanted her to have practice just listening to longer [...]
Naked Babies by Anna Quindlen and Nick Kelsh
Posted in parenting, reading on June 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I’d never read anything by Anna Quindlen until recently. When her name kept coming up in other things I was reading, some mother’s day blog posts, My Monastery is a Minivan, and probably somewhere else that I’ve forgotten, I knew it was time to check out her writing. Following a link from a [...]
