Oprah has re-launched her book club with on the best books I’ve read in a long time. Now even though I often found Oprah’s books terribly depressing, I was really excited when I heard the news. I love the buzz that her books get, the recognition, the common language around them. And quickly, Wild by […]
Read moreFor months, I feel like I have been reading about the middle grade novel, See You at Harry’s by Jo Knowles. First the book was featured as part of a book discussion held by Jen Vincent and Colby Sharp at Teach Mentor Text. Then I learned more about the lovely Jo Knowles through my participation in […]
Read moreI began last week as the mother of a kindergartner and a third grader. And then I ended the week with a first and fourth grader. At this time of year, I find it necessary to ignore all the well meaning writing teachers who tell me not to use cliches. Where does the time go? […]
Read moreAmanda Ellberry hates her 11th birthday the first time around. Her best friend, Stephanie leaves her party to go to Leo Fiztgerald’s party and stays there. Leo is Amanda’s ex-best friend and he and Amanda haven’t spoken in a year. Amanda is too tired to open her presents and she goes straight to bed. As she’s […]
Read moreIntroducing a Summer Series called Caroline’s Reviews. Our eight (almost nine!) year old, Caroline has been very interested in my blog for a long time. Tonight, I suggested that she could start writing book reviews for me. Wow. She sure jumped at the chance and did an awesome job too. If you are the commenting type, […]
Read moreSo if you are my age or younger or the parent of someone my age or younger or pretty much a whole lot of people, you will remember Reading Rainbow fondly. What an amazingly awesome show it was. And now it is an amazingly awesome app. Katherine and I downloaded it this morning and we […]
Read moreis worth a thousand words. This night stand used to be covered with Pokemon cards, dirty socks and a Nintendo DS. Now look at it! Although it is starting to look like a hoarder lives in his room it is still a great sight to see. He has 6-7 books going at one time depending on […]
Read moreThere are so many cool things about this video that I don’t really know where to start… Perhaps a list. 1. Caroline called my attention to it. I love that she knows what I would love. 2. It is timely. Who doesn’t love a video about Lebron James right now. 3. Lebron James is reading. […]
Read moreWe had a busy weekend around here. A four soccer game kind of busy weekend. As I sat down to write a blog post, I thought I might take the easy route and post this great picture of Rob and Katherine with a quote about dads and reading. Instead, I found a super alarming statistic. […]
Read moreI’m not sure how a puppy as cute as ours (see above if you think I’m exaggerating) could be driving us nuts but she is. Daisy will turn one next month so I am feeling all my “but she’s a puppy” excuses nearing their expiration date. She is still jumping, still chewing, still eating anything […]
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