“Can you build houses out of wheat?”
After reading Three Little Pigs four times in one afternoon, The Four-Year-Old wanted to know how realistic it was. “Can you really build houses out of wheat?”
What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, The Eight-Year-Old reads The Johnstown Flood by Rebecca Johnson, The Kingfisher Dinosaur Encyclopedia by Michael Benton, and The New Way Things Work by David Macauley and Neil Ardley.
Wordless Wednesday: The Eight-Year-Old’s writing nook
The Eight-Year-Old has been typing up a storm on her manual typewriter lately. Sometimes her writing is a pure flight of fancy. More often, it’s inspired…
“How do you make apple cider vinegar?”
One fine summer day, The Four-Year-Old was appalled to find her self-serve jar of pickles contained only pickling juice and a few floaty pickling bits. “Mommyo, can you make me more pickles.” No, I told her. We’re out of apple cider vinegar. “Well, can you make some?” Maybe? How do you make apple cider vinegar anyway?
What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
Our mostly weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old blends her love of folding paper and Star Wars with Tom Angleberger’s Origami Yoda series.
Wordless Wednesday: Tile
I nearly canceled Wordless Wednesday altogether today, because we are thinking about renovating our 1920s-era bathroom (finally!), and the only new pictures I have are of plumbing fixtures…
“What do stormtroopers read?”
In which The Eight-Year-Old Howell launches a newsletter for the underappreciated Storm Troopers among us.
What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old tags along with Horrible Harry on his trip to the moon, with Harriet Tubman as she frees 300 slaves on the Underground Railroad, and with Emmy as she explores the mystery of her incredible shrinking rat.
Wordless Wednesday: The Eight-Year-Old’s Homage to Bill Watterson (Marker on Cardboard, 2015)
Related Links: More Wordless Wednesdays on Caterpickles
“Who was John Harold Johnson?”
It’s always dangerous to boil someone’s life down to a blog post. But knowing something about a person is definitely better than knowing nothing at all, and nothing at all is what I knew when I walked into the post office last year for some stamps and walked out with a sheet of twenty Black Heritage John H. Johnson Forever stamps. And that’s a shame, because John H. Johnson was both a major American publisher and a key figure in the civil rights movement. So let’s fix that.
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