I don’t know where I saw this one mentioned, but I hope the rest of it is as good as the introduction.
My Family and Other Animals
Ellie just finished Junonia (Kevin Henkes). Her current reader is the first of the Down Girl and Sit series. It’s short but really funny – the cat calls himself “Here Kitty Kitty” and the names on the dog houses are “Dot” and “Happy” – we’ll be finished with it by the end of the week. We’re reading The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles (Julie Andrews Edwards) at bedtime. Michael is reading through The Dark Tower series. He never finished it which I can hardly believe. Everything but The Gunslinger was checked out from the library. We check out an embarrassment of books each week.
My upgraded library card didn’t stop me from signing up for Scholastic’s Readers Club as a homeschool teacher. Did you know about this? You can get the same benefits, points, and rewards as classroom teachers! They also send you those paper flyers like kids bring home from school.
Scholastic boxes smell good inside.
We have a little bit of a book problem. It can easily be fixed with more bookcases…
My bf has been trying to get me to read the dark tower series, but he spoiled the ending! Do you think it’s still worth the time?
“We have a little bit of a book problem.”
I nearly spewed my coffee all over the keyboard over that one! Hilarious… but ain’t it great.
Join the club, I say. We have every room in the house. save the kitchen, (too much grease flyin’ around in there) lined with bookcases. Enjoy. 😉
When my daughter was about sixteen, she came downstairs and told me she needed a new bookcase. I asked what about the one we had gotten her about five months earlier, and she told me it was full. “So you’re telling me you’ve outgrown your bookcase?” She answered, “Well, yes, but I haven’t changed shoe size in over a year!” Her growing out of bookcases might be inherited from both of her parents!
I’m so glad you discovered the “Down Girl and Sit” series. I am a retired teacher and librarian, and these books are among my favorites. I also recommend anything by Cynthia Rylant. There are never too many books!
We’ve got an entire bookshelf dedicated to Cynthia Rylant! Mr. Putter and his Fine Cat Tabby were a gateway drug.
I’m absolutely certain that if I homeschooled we would have more than a “bit of a book problem” . Thank God for my kindle and overdrive app that allow me to get all my books without having to hide the evidence
There is the real true shame: we all have kindles. And the library has Camellia net so we can check things out digitally.
*hangs head and slinks away*
Hey you’re an equal-opportunity reader! And OH! The Scholastic books! Always such a thrill when the ordered books arrived! I binged at the library last week after far too long away. *waves*
Late to the party, but popping up to say A recently read Junonia as well. I Adore My Family and Other Animals, our kid is named after one of the characters in one of Durrell’s other books (They Aye-Aye and I), his other books are also worth digging into if you haven’t read them.
We have a big book problem in our house. The latest scholastic order was over 50 books (two complete series). My defense is that we don’t have a public library…though there is the school library.