Mostly posts about books, but every once in a while, we’ll love a movie, game, or TV show so much we’ll talk about it here too.
This week, The Nine-Year-Old continues to plow through Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series, and Mommyo takes a firm stand against the 9YO’s plan to build a coop on the back deck to house her future pet Chickensoraus.
This week, The Nine-Year-Old reviews Zoo Borns by Andrew Bleiman and Chris Eastland and Breaking Cat News: Cats Reporting on the News that Matters to Cats by Georgia Dunn.
This week, The Nine-Year-Old reviews Wonder by R. J. Palacio’s Wonder and Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
This week, The Nine-Year-Old reviews Ava and Taco Cat by Carol Weston and Emperor Pickletine Rides the Bus by Tom Angleberger. We also say a final farewell to the crickets.
This week, The Nine-Year-Old interviewed one of her favorite picture book characters: Oliver, the tomcat from Werner Stejskal’s Oliver and Jumpy picture book series.
This week, The Nine-Year-Old’s plans to raise an orchestra of crickets hit a snag when she discovers that crickets and cats do not make good housemates. For the last…
Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Nine-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Nine-Year-Old spends some time painting and exploring grassy meadows with Oliver, the tuxedo cat and his kangaroo buddy Jumpy.
Mommyo: “The Eight-Year-Old actually accused me this week of geeking out over Jane Austen.” Uncle Phil: “She’s not incorrect.” (I would like to note for the record…
Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Nine-Year-Old’s desk. This week after reading James Howe’s Bunnicula series, The Nine-Year-Old does her level best to convince her lunch buddies that vampire rabbits are real.
I’m still buried in a forest of tax documents — I’ve reached the “Where is that one last form I need?” phase. Sadly, that one last…
