July 30, 2006 @ 5:02 am | Filed under: Baby, Photos
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children's book author
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you'll find posts about:
- my Little House books
- other people's books
- my family
- (here's our funniest stuff)
- raising a hard-of-hearing child
- our big cross-country trip
- homeschooling
and much more!
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Jane, 13 yrs old
Rose, 10 yrs
Beanie, 7 yrs
Wonderboy, 4 yrs
Rilla, 2 yrs
baby eagerly expected Jan. 2
and Scott, the love of my life
by Stephanie Spinner
Lots of picture books
for the Cybils
(See my mini-reviews at Twitter)
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
(reading this aloud to Jane)
by Amy Karol
Understood Betsy
by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
(read-aloud to Beanie)
The King's Fifth
by Scott O'Dell
(middle-grade novel about a young Spanish cartographer's travels with Coronado in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola)
A Murder for Her Majesty
by Beth Hilgartner
(I posted about it here)
Haystack Full of Needles
by Alice Gunther
(Here's a post I wrote about it)
The Highwaymen
by Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman
Number the Stars
by Lois Lowry
Swallows and Amazons
by Arthur Ransom
A Street in Marrakesh
by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Knight's Castle
by Edward Eager (to Beanie)
(a sequel to Half Magic
)
by Amanda Soule
The Losers (Vol.1): Ante Up
by Andy Diggle and Jock
Green Arrow: Year One
by Andy Diggle and Jock
Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places
by John R. Stilgoe
(here's a post about it)
Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
by Madeleine L'Engle
Dogger
by Shirley Hughes
Hey, what happened to all those booklists you used to have in your sidebars?
They're still accessible at melissawiley.typepad.com, where this blog lived from January 2005-March 2008. You can also find all my Lilting House posts there, or try the search bar here. All my previous Bonny Glen and Lilting House posts have been imported to this site.
The Story of Ping
by Marjorie Flack
My First Mother Goose
illustrated by Rosemary Wells
Blue Hat, Green Hat
by Sandra Boynton
The Maggie B by Irene Haas
James in the House of Aunt Prudence by Timothy Bush
Just So Stories
by Rudyard Kipling
The Tintin books
by Herge
Showcase Presents
a line of comic books
published by DC Comics
(I posted about them here)
Whinny of the Wild Horses
by Amy Laundrie
The Penderwicks
by Jeanne Birdsall
My Father's Dragon series
by Ruth Stiles Gannett
Understood Betsy
by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Wheel on the School
by Miendert Dejong
The Chronicles of Narnia
by C. S. Lewis
By the Great Horn Spoon
by Sid Fleischman
The Swallows & Amazon books
by Arthur Ransome
Many more to come, when I have time!
Kids' reading lists, nature notes, snarky exchanges with husband, etc
- Our Staycation Winds Down
- Like Father, Like Daughter
- Stay-cation Day Two
- Vacation, Day One
- Links for November 17, 2008
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- Picture Book Spotlight: Jumpy Jack & Googily
- Activities Coordinator: What’s not to love? All of those spots…!
- John: I love science experiments like this and am always looking for fun ones to do with my son. I found a cool site...
- sarah (patience): I love(d) that book too
- Cay G.: Oh, G-au-d! I remember that book!
- Faith: This was my husband’s favorite book too!
Be like the bird
Who, pausing in flight
On limb too slight,
Feels it give way beneath her, Yet sings,
Knowing she has wings.
—Victor Hugo
meaningful work
imaginative play
good books
beauty (art, music, nature)
ideas to ponder and discuss
prayer
Whence It Came
Oh my goodness! No way is that the same tiny pink package you brought home from the hospital such a short time ago!
Posted on July 30th, 2006 at 6:44 amThey grow so fast, don’t they?
And she has a gorgeous smile, too!
Posted on July 30th, 2006 at 7:28 amPrecious!
Posted on July 30th, 2006 at 9:57 amShe’s radiant!
Posted on July 30th, 2006 at 1:56 pmThat really is hard to believe!!! And she is only two months older than my little peanut! Baby Rilla is stunningly beautiful–what a smile!
Posted on July 30th, 2006 at 4:14 pmShe just gets cuter and cuter. Good job taking pictures with everything you have going on, I am impressed!
Posted on July 30th, 2006 at 5:35 pmShe is just scrumptuous!
Posted on July 30th, 2006 at 9:17 pmCute,Cute,Cute,Cute,Cute,Cute,Cute,Cute,Cuuuuuuuuute!!!!!
And did I say absolutely adorable?
;p
Posted on August 2nd, 2006 at 11:57 pm