Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old boards Howl’s Moving Castle, travels by airship in The Journals of Thaddeaus Shockpocket, and provides friendly encouragement to Kenneth Graham’s Reluctant Dragon.
I’m told they are planting a white bird of paradise. Thanks, Grandma, for providing a photo we can use on Caterpickles! Related Links: Wordless Wednesday: Dispatches…
When my daughter learned that centipedes and millipedes can have roughly the same number of legs, her mind had a question: “What is the difference between centipedes and millipedes?”
Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old takes a break from fishing to indulge in a bit of nostalgia reading about life in first-grade with Roscoe Riley Rules #1, homes with gigantic gardens in The Secret Garden, and those good old days when people still sent letters by post to Nancy Drew.
A whole lot of this: …is leading to a fun amount of this: At last report, The Eight-Year-Old had caught 2 redfish and 7 catfish. (All catch &…
Earlier this summer, The Eight-Year-Old stumbled onto the concept of derivative art. She looks up various works of art on her Daddyo’s iPad, then redraws them as portraits of Tigery. Earlier this summer, she integrated Tigery into da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Munch’s The Scream. This week, The Eight-Year-Old and her buddy Tigery are reworking Edouard Manet’s Self-Portrait with Palette.
This week, The Eight-Year-Old takes her first steps toward becoming a world-class literary tourist, cradles a crocodile, and shops for antiques.
About two weeks ago, my daughter asked me if centipedes really had 100 legs. On hearing that some did and others didn’t, she naturally wanted to know how many legs millipedes had.
This week, The Eight-Year-Old reviews Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, The Five Lives of our Cat Zook by Joanne Rocklin, and Exotic Aquarium Fishes by William T. Innes.
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