What’s The Ten-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, The Ten-Year-Old discovers The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe by Douglas Adams and begins a new series from an old favorite, Lauren Myracle.

Wordless Wednesday: Man Enters the Cosmos at the Adler Planetarium

Henry Moore’s sundial sculpture outside the Adler Planetarium, titled Man Enters the Cosmos, celebrates our nation’s space program. At the time the sculpture was created in 1980, NASA had already sent men to the moon and probes to Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

Happy Fourth of July!

Hope you spot something interesting while you’re out and about today. Related Links: Giant deer, ‘Real Fake’ sculptures installed along Chicago Riverwalk (Curbed Chicago)

What’s The Ten-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, The Ten-Year-Old steals Grandpa’s copy of Closer Magazine’s Elvis: The Collector’s Edition.

Wordless Wednesday: The Ten-Year-Old tours Jurassic World at the Field Museum

Scenes from The Ten-Year-Old’s recent trip to Jurassic World at the Field Museum, Chicago.

“Did a cow invent the doughnut?”

One afternoon, while we were watching old episodes of Murdoch Mysteries, The Ten-Year-Old had her mind blown by a stray comment from Constable George Crabtree. “Did you know that a cow invented the doughnut?” Crabtree asks Detective Murdoch at one point in the investigation. Curiosity trumps TV, even in the summer, so The Ten-Year-Old immediately stopped the action. “Mommyo, is that true? Did a cow really invent the doughnut?”

What’s The Ten-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, The Ten-Year-Old discovers a wonderful new-to-her middle grade mystery series by James Ponti.

The Ten-Year-Old Presents: The Best Books of Her Fourth Grade Year

School’s out, so it must be time for The Ten-Year-Old to pick her favorite books of fourth grade. The Ten-Year-Old strongly recommends you have copies of both Spaceheadz by Jon Scieszka and Marley by John Grogan on hand this summer in case of reading.