What’s The Ten-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, The Ten-Year-Old steals Grandpa’s copy of Closer Magazine’s Elvis: The Collector’s Edition.
This week, The Ten-Year-Old steals Grandpa’s copy of Closer Magazine’s Elvis: The Collector’s Edition.
This week, The Ten-Year-Old discovers a wonderful new-to-her middle grade mystery series by James Ponti.
School’s out, so it must be time for The Ten-Year-Old to pick her favorite books of fourth grade. The Ten-Year-Old strongly recommends you have copies of both Spaceheadz by Jon Scieszka and Marley by John Grogan on hand this summer in case of reading.
This week, The Ten-Year-Old reviews Mabel Grey and the Wizard Who Swallowed the Sun by Clayton Smith.
The ability to explain complicated ideas in simple terms is a rare, but valuable skill. In Thing Explainer, Randall Munroe sets out to explain how complicated stuff like the microwave (food-heating radio box), the International Space Station (shared space house), and tectonic plates (the big flat rocks we live on) work using only the 1000 most commonly used words.
This week, The Ten-Year-Old reviews This Journal Belongs to Ratchet by Nancy J. Cavanaugh and Wolf’s Boy by Susan Williams Beckhorn.
This week, The Ten-Year-Old reviews Muse Magazine by Cricket Media and The Secret Knowledge of Grown-ups by David Wisniewski.
This week, the Ten-Year-Old reviews Alice in Wonderland and the Book of the Sith.
This week, my daughter reads The Borrowers by Mary Norton.
The Art for Children Series, now sadly out of print, includes 16 books on major artists across the spectrum, including Rembrandt, Remington, Van Gogh, da Vinci, Gauguin, Chagall, and Picasso.