children's books
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Books And Food
As soon as he got home, he went to the larder; and he stood on a chair, and took down a very large jar of honey from the top shelf. It had HUNNY written on it, but, just to make sure, he took off the paper cover and looked at it, and it looked just like honey. “But you never can tell,” said Pooh. “I remember my uncle saying once that he had seen cheese just this colour.” So he put his tongue in, and took a large lick. “Yes,” he said, “it is. No doubt about that. And honey, I should say, right down to the bottom of the…
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Lost Books
I read a lot of books as a child and many of them have gotten lost in the mists of my memory. Some of them, however, have gotten lost in actuality. This is one of them. I don’t remember where we first found a copy of this book. I just pulled it off our bookshelves one day and got lost in the story. I read it over and over which is what I tended to do with any book that caught my fancy. I didn’t love it the way I loved Little Women and the Little House books but it was a book I was a bit obsessed with for a while.…
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Books To Be Read In The Spring
The Mole had been working very hard all morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said “Bother!” and “O blow!”…
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Book Memories
I typed the title of this post and then paused, slightly stumped by the fact that most of my life is made up of book memories. That is what happens when you are a book obsessive from birth onward. If I wrote about all of the memories that come to mind we could be here for days. I will spare you that and stick with what originally inspired the title. You can thank me for my restraint in the comments. It was book fair week at my daughter’s school. Just like when I was a child, book fair week is also the week of parent-teacher conferences. And just like when…
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Books Recommended By My Daughter
I recently wrote a post about books my teenage son would recommend. My daughter thinks it is her turn now and has enthusiastically provided me with a list of books she has read recently. She is a big re-reader so most of these have been read multiple times which is a recommendation in and of itself. She is ten and all of these books easily fit into that age bracket. First of all, we have a Nancy Drew mystery, The Clue of the Black Keys. My daughter has been a bit obsessed with Nancy Drew lately and I enjoy watching it since Nancy Drew was a big part of my…
