What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, The Nine-Year-Old reviews two popular kids magazines: Ranger Rick, a nature magazine from the National Wildlife Federation and Ask, a science and arts magazine from Cricket Media.

Classic Caterpickles: “Why doesn’t Santa have heart disease?”

After reading The Night Before Christmas, The (then) Five-Year-Old and I had a conversation about the perils of smoking, and whether Santa smoked. The (then) Five-Year-Old has obviously been busy processing this information because a few days later she asked me, “Why doesn’t Santa have heart disease?”

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, the 9 year-old reviews Niall and the Stone of Destiny, a biography of King Niall, a 5th century High King of Ireland, by Lance MacNeill, and Stowaway in a Sleigh by C. Roger Mader.

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, The 9 year old reviews Magic Trixie by Jill Thompson and Fuzzy by Tom Angleberger and Paul Dellinger.

“How did Yukon Gold potatoes get their name?”

This week I learned that miners during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896-99 (aka the Yukon Gold Rush) valued potatoes so highly for their scurvy-fighting powers that they paid for them in gold. Naturally that little tidbit made me wonder if that was how the Yukon Gold potato got its name. Eh, not exactly. At least, not directly.

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, the 9 year old reviews Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn.

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, the 9 year old flits from math to science fiction to wondering in her reading. Join us for her reviews of Math for Kids & Other People Too! by Theoni Pappas, The Time Warp Trio by Jon Scieszka, and The Big Book of Why by the Editors of Time for Kids Magazine.

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, the 9 year old reviews Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder by Jo Nesbo, El Deafo by Cece Bell, and Quiddith Through the Ages by JK Rowling.

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, the 9 year old reviews Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George, Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling, and Potterwookiee by Obert Skye.

What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?

This week, the 9 year old reviews Upside-Down Magic by Lauren Myracle, Sara Mlynowski, and Emily Jenkins; Wonkenstein: The Creature from my Closet by Obert Skye; and My Brother is a Superhero by David Solomons.