Mariposa's worked her way through the first four books of the Boxcar Children and is soon to start some more books given to her by a friend. I'm loving that she's really enjoying getting her nose stuck into a book rather than it being such a chore. I'm sure the new glasses are helping too!
Maestro has recently discovered Terry Pratchett. He always tries to grab as many books from the library by the same author as possible, or at least read the whole series. At the moment he's working his way through The Colour of Magic. Whilst scouring the library catalogue, he had also found a dvd made by the BBC, titled Going Postal, and we enjoyed viewing that as a family last weekend.
Papa has two books on his bedside dresser at the moment. One is a little, old, cloth-covered copy of Longfellows Poems. The other is on loan from a friend: Made in America by Bill Bryson.
Finally, I have two books on loan from the library also. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society was recommended to me some time back by Maestro's violin teacher. It's written as a collection of letters; set in post WWII London. So far it's a delightful easy read.
The other book I've picked up is by Rhonda Hetzel's Down to Earth: A Simple Guide to Living. It's such a beautifully presented book, offering all the gentle wisdom she has given on her blog, and more! I'm seriously considering purchasing a copy as one of our Home Economic text books for the children to read.
Are you enjoying any great reads at your house? Please do share. :)
Thank you for dropping by!
5 comments:
My dd absolutely loves the box car children. I got her 1 to 4 and a few others but am having trouble with a few in between that we're missing. They don't seem so easy to come by for some reason.
My reading is very scattered as I don't have a lot of spare time ATM to read! Your library sounds really good!
Hello Joyfulmum! :)
I'm budgeting to get Mariposa books 5-8 of the Boxcar Children series next month. There must be a few books in the series, then, are there? Do you know how many?
Oh yes there are heaps and heaps:) but the original author only wrote upto #19. . So yea, upto number 19 should be good I'm told :) the later ones were written by others and aren't as good apparently.
I'm with Joyfulmum. The first of the Boxcar books were best. I loved Potato Peel Society as well. And Rhonda's book as well, actually.
We have so enjoyed using books for our Australian studies....we have read through Watkin Stench and did a Lapbook on the First Fleet.
We have just finished Surviving Sydney Cove, and now are looking at the Harvey books on exploration.
It is my time to read to them, and they actually like the coziness! Lovely to see you visit my place!
Cathy
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