The Eight-Year-Old’s school has been celebrating poetry all month. Yesterday was Poem in your Pocket day. The kids were asked to pick a poem, print or write it out, and carry it around in their pocket all day, reading it to everyone they met. The Eight-Year-Old picked “The Tyrannosaur” by Bill Watterson.
Our semi-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. Caterpickles Central is all abuzz with news of the bobcat that caught a shark and the three new dwarf dragons discovered in South America. And and she read a few books too.
Our semi-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross the 8YO’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old reads Toby Alone and Toby and the Secrets of the Tree by Toby Alone by by Timothee de Fombelle, and reads the next book in Lucy and Stephen Hawking’s middle grade science fiction series, George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt.
Our semi-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, the 8YO accompanies Sir Cumference to Angleland, meets Mary Norton’s The Borrowers, and shadows Prickly Porky for a day.
This week, The Eight-Year-Old reads Mr. Pants: It’s Go Time! by Scott McCormick, I Survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 by Lauren Tarshis, Rescue Princesses #5: The Snow Jewel by Paula Harrison, and National Geographic’s Rocks and Minerals by Kathleen Wiedner Zoehfeld.
Our occasional round-up of the news tidbits that cross The Seven-Year-Old’s desk as well as a sampling of some of the books she’s been reading lately. This week, The Seven-Year-Old has been reading about tigers, elephants, bison, dragons, bullies, and girl detectives.
Our semi-regular survey of the tidbits that cross The Seven-Year-Old’s desk. This week, my daughter’s been captivated by a weasel riding on a woodpecker’s back as well as Tom Watson’s Stick Dog, Berniece Freschet’s Furlie Cat, and David Passes’ Dragons: Truth, Myth, and Legends.
Our semi-regular round-up of the news and books that have crossed The Seven-Year-Old’s desk. This week, she’s reading the news about the baby woolly rhino discovered in Siberia, as well as books by Patricia C. Wrede, John Himmelman, Jeff Kinney, and the top-notch storytellers at Marvel.
Anne Bustard’s Anywhere but Paradise is a beautifully written Middle Grade (MG) novel about Peggy Sue Bennett, a 12-year-girl who moves from Gladiola, Texas to Hawaii after her father gets a job in the sugar cane industry.
Our semi-regular round-up of the tidbits that cross The Seven-Year-Old’s desk. This week, my daughter’s reading about monarch butterflies, plastic polluting our oceans, and the effects of fast food on our bodies. She’s also reading the Warriors books by Erin Hunter, The Loathsome Dragon by Kim Kahng and David Wiesner, and Scientific Progress Goes Boink! by Bill Watterson.
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