I’m drawn out of my Holiday Hiatus by Nathan Bransford’s holiday charity drive to help Heifer International. If you haven’t heard of this fab charity, they give meaningful gifts of hope to hungry families around the world through livestock, training, and other assistance. Heifer takes the words “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach him… Read More
On Christmas Eve, we always read ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas, by Clement C. Moore, with the bowl-full-of-jelly Santa and “up to the housetop the coursers they flew!” My kids have come to enjoy it, even if they don’t understand it. Heck, even I had to look up “coursers”, a word which here alludes to Santa’s fleet footed reindeer, but… Read More
I recently plugged The Frog Scientist, by Pamela S. Turner, on my list of holiday rec’s, but I wanted to do a proper review on this wonderful non-fiction book that reads like a story. The book follows scientist Tyrone Hayes and his experiments as he attempts to discover why frogs all over the world are disappearing. With over a hundred species… Read More
Thank you to Caroline for the sweet blogger-love award! Rules on this one (notice how all of a sudden I’m a pro at this?) are simple: Tell a story about your childhood reading life, and pass it on to five blogger-friends. The Indie Bookstore: When I was 8-12 years old (back before the word tween came into existence and roughly in the… Read More
Dark Omen came home from 5th grade and told me his classmates were “worshipping” him today because he reads the Wall Street Journal. “Worship” is apparently 5th grade speak for, “Dude, you’re really cool” and it strikes me as awesome that these kids think it’s “cool” to read, of all things, the newspaper. Not any newspaper, mind you, but The… Read More
RL: 4.2 CSM: 10+ Rating: PG Content: Peril of characters 100 Cupboards, by N.D. Wilson is a charming story about a boy who finds a magical cupboard in his room, hidden behind a wall, where each small door leads to somewhere . . . else. This is also a story about twelve year old Henry breaking away from his very overprotective… Read More