Mon Jan 18, 2010
Child/Young Adult Book Roundup
Catching up on all the books I've read since about March.... I started this post back in August I guess things have continued to be crazy since then. I have such great intentions of writing about all the books I read.
Little Plum by Rumer Godden
Another of Godden's doll books. The dolls in this one are Japanese dolls. Miss Happiness and Miss Flower (who evidently star in another book Miss Happiness and Miss Flower that I have not yet read.) and a new doll, Little Plum of the title.
One of my favorite of Godden's children's books. The illustrations by Jean Primrose are lovely.
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy by Jeanne Birdsall. I liked this book but perhaps it was that I'd had it overhyped. Or maybe that I read it by myself and not with a child. It wasn't exactly what I expected and I felt like I missed something. Perhaps it will catch better on a reread.
Linnets and Valerians by Elizabeth Goudge
This is the second Goudge book I've read and based on the fact that both of the ones I've read I've seen highly praised in many quarters, I think perhaps I just don't like Goudge. It's hard to put my finger exactly on what I didn't like. Somehow it just didn't.
Midnight Hour Encores
Oh I wish I'd written about it when it was still fresh. There were so many things I wanted to say. Oh well.
One caveat: some mature themes. This is for a more mature audience and I'd preview it before handing it to a child or read it with them so that I could help them navigate the trickier bits.
So not much to actually say about them. But if you've read them please feel free to discuss in the comments.
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Bella and Sophie
Saturday Dom got the high chair out of the shed. It seems like Ben is getting to about that age where he might sit in it. It might even be a way to keep him occupied at dinner so I can eat something without him trying to pull my plate off the table.
Sophie saw the high chair and immediately demanded that Dom lift her up so she could sit in it. She contentedly sat in the high chair for more than an hour. Even demanded that Dom strap her in. It was cute but a little disarming. After all we retired the high chair last year when she refused to sit in it for any length of time. And unfortunately she hasn't been thrilled to let Ben sit in it.
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Bella brought me a pile of papers that she had colored on and told me that they were "notices" that she and Sophie had made and I could have one if I desired. I have no idea where she learned the word "notices." They were really pretty though.
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Last night at her fourth (or was it the fifth) time out of bed, her second trip to the bathroom, Bella asked Dom if she could "finish reading my story about the oceans" (an article in Popular Mechanics that he's been reading to her). He said, "No not tonight." She asked then if she could read it "Tomorrow before nap if I eat all my lunch?"
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