Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old spends a little more time with Thornton W. Burgess, one of the younger Mommyo’s favorite authors, as well as Katherine Applegate, one of the Eight-Year-Old’s favorite authors.
This week, the 8YO discovers Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School by Jeff Kinney.
This week, The Eight-Year-Old devours two of the books she found lurking under the Christmas tree, and Mommyo joins the year-end list-making frenzy by making a giant list of all the news she forgot to tell you about when it actually happened.
This week, the 8 year old reviews Dragon, Hound of Honor by Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton and Polo’s Mother by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
This week, the Eight-Year-Old’s inquiring mind wants to know about hypnosis, thanks to Georgia Byng’s Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism.
Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old does math with cats and discovers a new-to-her-book buried under her Elvis wig.
This week, The Eight-Year-Old falls under the spell of two exceptional story-tellers, Roald Dahl and Brian Selznick, and shakes a literary fist at the emerald ash borer beetles destroying her favorite trees.
The Eight-Year-Old has been quite concerned by news that her cousin’s cat has been peeing all over their house. This is not approved cat behavior. The Eight-Year-Old is clearly mulling over potential causes. I’m sure that’s why I caught her reading the ASPCA Cat Care Manual and The Pet Vet series by Darrel and Sally Odgers this week.
Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old is shocked to learn that Mommyo has never read Judy Blume and takes steps to rectify that Great Injustice immediately.
This week, the 8 year old reads every Horrible Harry book on her teacher’s bookshelf, except one.
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