Showing posts with label Book List. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book List. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2011

If you're wondering why I'm bouncing around in ecstasy, this is it.

My mother just asked if my book was really as good as I apparently thought it was. She said, and I quote,

"I don't remember you gushing about any book this much."

The fact is.... yes. The book I just read was supremely, wonderfully, amazingly awesome and glorious and magnificent and... everything else. What is it you ask? It is the third book in a fairly recent series, titled "Penderwicks at Point Mouette".

My family loves the Penderwicks. I got the second book the day it came out in hardback (and promptly spilled a cherry slushie over it... random fact of the second.) and we all listened to the first book on CD multiple times. We all have a different favorite character; Kievan and Allie like feisty Skye, my mother and I prefer Jeffery, my dad likes decoding Mr. Penderwick's bizarre ramblings in Latin. And we all miraculously agree that it's an awesome book.

Anyway, there's my rant on the Penderwick series. (by Jeanne Birdsall, you gotta give the woman credit) I recommend you read it and then tell me what you thought about it now, before I explode. ;)


Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Women

by Alice Walker



They were women then
My mama's generation
Husky of voice--stout of
Step
With fists as well as
Hands
How they battered down
Doors
And ironed
Starched white
Shirts
How they led
Armies
Headragged generals
Across mined
Fields
Booby-trapped
Ditches
To discover books
Desks
A place for us
How they knew what we
Must know
Without knowing a page
Of it
Themselves.

Friday, August 31, 2007

Chloe's recomended book list... for children

1. Harry Potter seres-J.K. Roling
2. Nancy Drew Mystery at Lilac Inn-Carolyn Keen
3. Miss Mallard Mysteries-Robert Quackenbush
4. Redwall-Brian Jacques
5. Anne of Green Gables

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Top eleven books

1. Roxaboxen
2. The Seven Silly Eaters
3. The Mightiest Heart
4. The Seven Story Mistake
5. The Saturdays
6. Then There Were Five
7. Encyclopedia Brown
8. A Children's Treasury of Mythology
9. Miss Rumphius
10. Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots
11. The Egypt Game

Monday, February 05, 2007

My Top Ten Favorite Books

1. The Mightiest Heart-Lynn Collen
2. The Seven Silly Eaters-Mary Ann Hoberman
3. The Seceret Garden-Frances Hogson Burnett
4. The Little Princess-Frances Hogson Burnett
5. Encyclopedia Brown-?
6. The Complete Book Of The Flower Fairys-?
7. A Childrens Treasury of Mythology-?
8. Queen Cat (Fairy Tale)
9. The Seven Story Mistake-Elizabeth Enright
10. The Saturdays-Elizabeth Enright