Category Archives: Children's Books

Five things you cannot dispute:

Bamboo comes from a bamboo shoot,
Rutabaga comes from a rutabaga root,
Bananas are the funniest fruit,
Turtle always tells the truth, and
Toad looks funny in a bathing suit!
Guess what!

Laura Ingalls Wilder slaps me in the face

As you probably know, I’m pretty outspoken on the topic of censorship. I believe it’s my job and no one else’s to decide what my kids should or shouldn’t be allowed to read.

Self-torture

I’m not sure what masochistic impulse led me to check out a copy of Banned in the USA: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries.

Inkheart

Joey gave me a copy of Inkheart for my birthday.
That was quite a Mommy Moment, let me tell you! My child read a book on his own that he reasonably thought I would like.

Faux pas

Some years ago my dad bought a cd as a birthday gift for one of his daughters.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

which for me means just one thing: time for my annual re-read of The Dark is Rising. Yes, annual.

Book review

Well, as you know, I’ve been pretty busy lately. Too busy to do much reading, unfortunately.