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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


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)
The Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
(read-aloud to Rose and Beanie)
Understood Betsy
by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
(read-aloud to Beanie)
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
(reading this aloud to Jane)

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
)
The Creative Family
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

They're at GoodReads

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.






(a work in progress)

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!