217 pgs. HNA, Inx. 2008.
Wow! I think I enjoyed this book even more than the first. Kinney has a great thing going, and I am certainly looking forward to the latest and greatest publication. If something bad is going to happen, it seems to happen to Greg Heffley. After a […]
I am sure it has already been stated on this website that I believe Roald Dahl to be one of the best, and probably one of my favorite, children’s author. One of my few memories of third grade is sitting in my cold (from the crazy AC) and hard chair, leaning my head on […]
174 Pages, 2008 Houghton Mifflin Company.
I just love Louis Lowry’s writings. I can still vividly remember reading The Giver while substitute teaching in SW Florida so many years ago. From that moment on I became a fan. Having read everything by her that I can, this was a must have when we […]
Amulet Books, NY. 2007. 217 pgs.
Recently my wife started reading this book while we were spending some time at a local book shop. As I am sitting around skimming some of the recent works of fiction I continue to hear bursts of laughter coming from my spouse who is holding onto the […]
I decided to read this Newbery award winning novel, which was first published in 1962, because my children read it in school. I knew it to be a classic children’s story and wanted to be able to discuss it’s content and find out what was taught regarding it.
Though it was written in a time […]
Another fun and child-loving story. With all the silliness and humor found in Dahl’s other stories, The Twits is a quick read (75 pages full of illustrations) that held my children’s attention and kept them reacting to all the jocular elements. Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, meanest and ugliest […]
Roald Dahl’s style of writing should be familiar to most readers since he has written several extremely popular children’s stories. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda are just a few. I picked up this book because I was familiar with the author, but I had never seen this […]