This week saw the arrival of Melissa Wiley’s new books, the early reader Inch and Roly Make a Wish and the middle-grade novel The Prairie Thief. Sophie’s reaction to Inch and Roly was, “Are there any more pages?” I...
The Fortune Teller by George de la Tour Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, With a wicked pack of cards. [I’ve tried to follow Eliot’s line breaks as much...
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Our Antarctic Adventure—Reading and Resources List
We’ve been hanging out in Antarctica quite a bit of late, fruit of following Bella’s latest obsession. For a while last week our living room carpet was the ocean and a big Ikea box was an ice shelf. Or maybe mountains. A bunch of books...
Anthony is a new experience for us. Sure all of our kids went through that testing-boundaries toddler phase. But Anthony somehow takes it to a whole new level. He is very, very curious. Very physically able—he’s quite adept at climbing...
“You are beautiful and lovely, O daughter of Jerusalem, terrible as an army arrayed for battle.” Christ ascended into heaven and prepared an everlasting dwelling place for his most chaste mother: this is the sublime festival, surpassing...
I haven’t been so successful at keeping a reading log this year. Pregnancy does that. It addles the brain and saps the record-keeping desire. But I’ve read a few books in recent months that I have wanted to write about, have wanted to...
The box on the left is Bella’s doll house. The one on the right is the grocery store she made later, complete with food pictures cut from seed catalogs. I suppose it’s properly a greengrocers. So a while back we read two of Rumer...
Sometimes you come across a blog post that makes you want to stand up and cheer. This was one of those for me. Claudia at Lit Hitchhiker writes about how her favorite books are those she stumbled upon by chance.Ode to Books Discovered by Chance She...
or, rather, on Dom’s summer vacation. Dom has taken two weeks off and we are cramming the time with all sorts of fun outings. Last Saturday we kicked off vacation with a trip to the farmer’s market followed by a picnic at the nearby...
