It’s almost Book Fair time again at Left Bank Books, so mark your calendars for the weekend after next (November 21-22). I’m working on our holiday book list right now, and one of the books on the list for F is this gem. Imaginary Fred is the latest book in a long of line of…
Category: (story)time
(story)time: Building Our House by Jonathan Bean
I think because we’re a house of architects (and perhaps because we’ve also done a lot of construction on our own house), the girls are frequently given books related to architecture or building. Some of them are really quite good, but we’ve also read some really dry ones – pages with lots of diagrams and terminology…
(story)time: The Odyssey retold by Gillian Cross
I have this funny story / post that has taken me forever to finish. Maybe it felt a little boast-y, like “Your six year old reads Disney princess books? Well, mine prefers Homer.” But I’m going to share it anyway because a) our library bags have no shortage of Cinderella in them, b) books are books, and…