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.
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.
This week, The Eight-Year-Old takes her first steps toward becoming a world-class literary tourist, cradles a crocodile, and shops for antiques.
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.
Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, we meet the not-so-newly discovered Hellboy dinosaur and mourn the loss of the world’s oldest living cat. The 8YO also reads Pioneer Cat by William H. Hooks, Call of the Wild: A Mutts Treasury by Patrick McDonnell, and The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
After reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in two breathless gulps, The Eight-Year-Old couldn’t wait to start Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. And if she wanted to read it, our book parenting philosophy demanded that we let her. But knowing she wasn’t ready for it (and knowing that the remaining books become ever-more challenging as the series go on), could we in good conscience let her?
This week, the 8YO indulges in some end-of-school comfort reading, and spends a few happy afternoons with her old friends Snoopy and Clifford.
This week, The 8YO continues her search for good middle school science fiction, and lands on Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke, Aliens for Lunch by Stephanie Spinner and Jonathan Etra, and, of course, Aliens for Dinner.
Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, an innovative animal shelter campaign that pairs Star Wars characters with adoptable future friends, a proto-star cluster out in space, and of course, more books about aliens and dragons.
Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old reads all about scheming weasels in Elys Dolan’s Weasels, friendly aliens in Dugald A. Steer’s Alienology, flying girls in Betty Brock’s No Flying in the House. She also found time to hang out with Schroeder’s Muse and visit OlogyWorld.
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