In her book, Reading like a Writer, Francine Prose casually states that it’s bad luck to have peacock feathers in the house. I’d never heard that before. So of course, I wanted to know: do peacock feathers bring bad luck?
I’ve been using Goodreads on a personal basis for years now. Last year, I decided to set up a separate Goodreads page to track the books…
Looks like my daughter’s been reading Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci again.
This week, The Ten-Year-Old reviews Planet Tad by Tim Carvell and Dying to Meet You by Kate Klise and Sarah Klise.
This week, The Ten-Year-Old discovers Cornelia Funke’s Dragon Rider.
This week, The Ten-Year-Old reviews The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder and Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett.
How should families sort their books? By color? Alphabetically? By type? Here’s what happened when we switched from sorting books by color to grouping them by type.
During a recent bout of Family Togetherness While Reading Different Books Time, my ten-year-old daughter had her mind blown by a passage in Amazing Cat Facts. “Whoa, guys, it says here that Isaac Newton invented the cat door.” For once, I was dubious. So I set aside my book and surreptitiously double-checked the story on my iPhone. Did Isaac Newton really invent the cat door?
This week, The Ten-Year-Old dives into summer with a book of scary (but not too scary) stories to tell around a campfire. Hal Johnson’s Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods echoes an America gone by, when the woods were large and full of shadows for unknown beasts to lurk in.
This week, The Ten-Year-Old discovers The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe by Douglas Adams and begins a new series from an old favorite, Lauren Myracle.
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