What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, The Eight-Year-Old takes her first steps toward becoming a world-class literary tourist, cradles a crocodile, and shops for antiques.
What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, we meet the not-so-newly discovered Hellboy dinosaur and mourn the loss of the world’s oldest living cat. The 8YO also reads Pioneer Cat by William H. Hooks, Call of the Wild: A Mutts Treasury by Patrick McDonnell, and The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Wordless Wednesday: The Eight-Year-Old takes pictures
Of cats, naturally. She tells me she got this effect by twisting the iPad as she took the picture. Related Links: Wordless Wednesdays on Caterpickles
What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, the 8YO indulges in some end-of-school comfort reading, and spends a few happy afternoons with her old friends Snoopy and Clifford.
What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, The 8YO continues her search for good middle school science fiction, and lands on Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke, Aliens for Lunch by Stephanie Spinner and Jonathan Etra, and, of course, Aliens for Dinner.
What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
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.
Wordless Wednesday: The 8YO’s Amaryllis
This winter, The Eight-Year-Old got into gardening in a big way. The timing was a bit unfortunate, seeing as how we live in Chicago. But we got her an amaryllis bulb, and let her take full responsibility for tending it in our sunroom.
What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
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.
The difference between velociraptors and kittens
This past Christmas, Canelo did not knock over our Christmas tree once. (I know, shocking right? What sort of self-respecting cat is he?) However, he did…
Mrs. Broadmoore’s Amazing Painting Cat
(Cross-posted on BostonWriters.) Back in 1994, Heather Busch published Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthestics. I was aware of it at the time and…
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