Today, we have a guest blogger! Dark Omen (aka my 11 year old son) will be reviewing Book 2, Flyte, of the Septimus Heap series, by Angie Sage. Flyte: What to Look Out For by Dark Omen Flyte, the second book in the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage is a good story. It has clearly defined good and evil… Read More
For the most part, here on Ink Spells, I will only review stories I have read myself. However, to give you an idea of other books that have passed the Mom Muster, I’ll be continually adding to this list of books the munchkins have read. Only you can save mankind, by Terry Pratchett Alex and the Ironic Gentleman, by Adrienne… Read More
Hot off the Google Alerts presses . . . Thanks to Rachel at Big Little Brains for pointing out the uses of Wordle for advanced readers! In case you’ve never seen wordle before, it’s a website that will take any batch of text and turn it into a very cool looking word mosaic! The more frequent the word, the larger it appears… Read More
I blogged before about Disney’s new Digital Books. Now, apparently Nintendo DS will be releasing Nintendo Flip Books on December 4th, in time for the Holiday Season Shopping, with titles from Eoin Colfer and possibly Harry Potter in the works. But not in the U.S. This somewhat disturbing development is justified by the head of EA Play because children in… Read More
In my search for those literary gems at the higher reading levels for our advanced readers, I stumbled across The 10 Greatest . . . series. These are non-fiction books, but there’s one for just about any interest your kids may have, AND they have fairly challenging reading levels. Short bursts of interesting subject matter, at reading levels that will… Read More
I stand in constant amazement of the creativity of little minds. As I finished each chapter of my novel, I read it to my children. I could tell which characters captured their imagination, as they started to show up in the on-going narrative play in our household. My kids thought nothing of sending my characters off on wild, universe-conquering adventures that were completely unrelated to my… Read More