I believe I can safely say that we have reached what we used to call the dog days of summer. Most mothers know these days very well. The kids are no longer enthusiastic about being out of school but it’s several weeks before school starts up again. Their normal toys and other activities are starting [...]
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The Ghost, The White House and Me Judith St. George Scholastic Inc., 2007 Today’s post is written by a guest blogger. Well, to be honest, she is an aspiring guest blogger. On a recent visit with my ten-year-old granddaughter she shared with me a book she was reviewing for her fourth-grade class. I thought you [...] I am thoroughly enjoying this chance to re-read some of the books I enjoyed as a child. Most of us who are adult book lovers got our start as children. We can all give lists of those favorites. And then, if we have children of our own, we get to share those favorites with our [...] Homer Price Robert McCloskey The Viking Press, 1941 Genre: Children’s Fiction Homer Price was one of my childhood heroes. I was quite the tomboy and I imagined myself as Homer. We had a lot of things in common. We both lived in the Midwest, although his town is smaller than mine. We both have some [...] The Railway Children by Edith Nesbitt Sea Star Books, 1906 So many things happen in this tale of three children and their mother. They have moved from their wealthy villa near London to an isolated village somewhere in the English countryside. They are suddenly very poor and their father is mysteriously away for a long [...] |
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