Bummer that there won't be a Z book, but it's probably for the better that the manuscript stays unfinished. After the mess that was "The Painted Queen", I'm a bit leery of bringing in a new author to finish a book.
You know me! I'm like, "Go school! It's your birthday!" Or something to that effect.
Willow ,'Empty Places'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Sheryl - Dec 29, 2017 11:36:01 am PST #24888 of 28211
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
flea - Dec 30, 2017 5:08:27 pm PST #24889 of 28211
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Gah, I just finined a reread of The Devil In Music, the last of the Julian Kestrel books, and it was SO GOOD and it's a crying shame that Kate Ross died at 41 and we didn't get a long series of them. I think I first read them more than 15 years ago on recommendation from Suela, so I am thinking of her.
Jesse - Dec 30, 2017 5:20:37 pm PST #24890 of 28211
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh man, I loved that book so much. I should re-read that.
Also, Kate Ross didn't seem quite so young when I read them the first time....
aurelia - Dec 31, 2017 5:45:42 pm PST #24891 of 28211
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I'm sending some books to my cousin whose house burned down last month. She's got a 5yr old, a 2.5yr old, and one on the way. What would you consider essential books for them?
flea - Jan 01, 2018 3:51:57 am PST #24892 of 28211
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For the 5 year old, Elephant and Piggie books by Mo Willems. Picture books: Robert McCloskey (Make Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal), Virginia Lee Burton (Katy and the Big Snow - although now I think of it there's a house fire in it, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel). For the fetus, Brown Bear Brown Bear What Do You See in board book format.
aurelia - Jan 01, 2018 6:38:26 am PST #24893 of 28211
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I should probably avoid house fires. Their house burned on the 5yr old's birthday.
Amy - Jan 01, 2018 6:52:31 am PST #24894 of 28211
Because books.
For the one on the way, all the Sandra Boynton board books.
Classics for all ages: Where the Wild Things Are, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Corduroy, Goodnight Moon, the Llama Llama books, any Dr. Seuss, and the Jane Yolen How Do Dinosaurs books.
aurelia - Jan 01, 2018 7:57:48 am PST #24895 of 28211
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Also on my list:
The Snowy Day
The Rainbow Fish
The Story of Ferdinand
Animalia and The Water Hole by Graeme Base
Red Ranger Came Calling and Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big by Berkeley Breathed
hippocampus - Jan 01, 2018 1:30:45 pm PST #24896 of 28211
not your mom's socks.
The Seven Silly Eaters
Chrysanthemum
Here We Are (new, for new parents and up)
The Old Woman Who Named Things
Seconding everything especially Mo Willems
Stellaluna
If You Give a Moose A Muffin
Mouse Paint
Olivia
Make Way For Ducklings
Miss Rumphius
Amy - Jan 01, 2018 2:27:33 pm PST #24897 of 28211
Because books.
Oh, yeah, everything Kevin Henkes. Rosemary Wells is also great.