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the online home of
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, 5 yrs
Rilla, 2 yrs
baby eagerly expected Jan. 2
and Scott, the love of my life
by Meg Wolitzer
The Uncommon Reader: A Novella
by Alan Bennett
World Made by Hand
by James Howard Kunstler
for the Cybils
The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution
by Alice Waters
How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff
The Great Turkey Walk
by Kathleen Karr
(family read-aloud)
The Trees Kneel at Christmas
by Maud Hart Lovelace
A Reader's Delight
by Neil Perrin
(a book I have savored, essay by essay, all year—thank you again, sweet friend who sent it)
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
The Ransom of Red Chief
by O. Henry
(family read-aloud)
Sign of the Beaver
by Elizabeth George Speare
(family read-aloud)
Stitched in Time: Memory-Keeping Projects to Sew and Share
by Alicia Paulson
Bend-the-Rules Sewing
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 my post 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.
(Excerpt from this post about Real Life, quoted here because I don't want anyone to be under the impression that things are always perfect around here! Heaven knows we are anything but. Perfect, frictionless, orderly? Nope. Happy? Most of the time!)
Kids' reading lists, nature notes, snarky exchanges with husband, etc
- Kathy: Darling babes & halo hair. Worth the waddle!
- regan: my 14yo used to lock himself in the bathroom and paint indian “war paint” all over his face using...
- Activities Coordinator: My sister had that hair. My husband had that hair. Why, oh why didn’t my children get...
- Kathryn: Oh my! Rilla is a miniature Beanie!
- angela: A couple years ago, I spotted someone signing at a Living Stones retreat (back when K and I were newbies in...
- When You Happen Upon a Scene Like This…
- Greek (And Latin!)
- 2008 in Books
- From the Archives: Duck!
- What the Song Looks Like
- Links for January 2, 2009
- 2008 in Posts
- 2008 in Pictures
- Unsolicited Signing Time Commercial
- This Year’s Daddy-Books
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
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