I haven’t made many goals the past few years, mostly because they go the way of most new year’s resolutions–I don’t actually fulfill them. However, I do love the month of January for reading, and the new year seems like a good time to set some new intentions. I plan to participate in Read-At-Home Mom’s … [Read more…]
I contemplated several different birthday posts for this year, but honestly, forty-one of anything (facts about me, books I want to read, places I want to go) seems like a lot. Instead, I’m sharing eleven books (you know, forty-one minus thirty) I intend to read this year. I’m limiting myself to books I really, really … [Read more…]
The ALA Youth Media Awards were announced today, and as is usual, I am late to the party. Of the many awards the ALA gives, I have read exactly TWO of this year’s award books: The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant and illustrated by Melissa Sweet, winner of a Caldecott Honor … [Read more…]
We’ll work on memorizing “The Duel” by Eugene Field. It’s a humorous piece, and I thought we could use that given what else we’re working on. 🙂 We’ll continue with the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. We didn’t work on this at all during the Christmas season, so we’ll probably have to backtrack a bit. … [Read more…]
Since last month’s Nightstand, I’ve read Greenglass House by Kate Milford –middle grade speculative fiction; slow, thoughtful, and entertaining, if cumbersome at times The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier–middle grade specultive fiction; suspenseful, creepy, and well written Hope Is a Ferris Wheel by Robin Herrera–middle grade realistic fiction with my favorite, hope, as a theme Rain … [Read more…]
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