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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 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.
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
- Twittered Moments
- Hey Penny, About Those Acorns…
- Links for November 29, 2008
- Wee and Wonderful Indeed
- Links for November 22, 2008
- Our Staycation Winds Down
- Like Father, Like Daughter
- Stay-cation Day Two
- Vacation, Day One
- Links for November 17, 2008
- sarah: Lol and lol! I wish I lived at your house! I used to do the Twitter thing, for about ten minutes anyway until...
- Alice Gunther: Still laughing!
- Elizabeth McCullough: I saw a whole lot of acorns a few weeks ago in Charlottesville. Maybe from just one kind of...
- Kathy: I love it for the same reason. I originally signed up with Twitter so our far-flung family could enjoy regular...
- MelanieB: Our two year old managed to fill her little pail with “haycorns” on our walks round the block...
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
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good books
beauty (art, music, nature)
ideas to ponder and discuss
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