I should probably avoid house fires. Their house burned on the 5yr old's birthday.
Oh! I know this one! 'Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah blah blahbity blah, I'm so stuffy, gimme a scone.'
Buffy ,'Help'
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."
aurelia - Jan 01, 2018 6:38:26 am PST #24893 of 28212
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Amy - Jan 01, 2018 6:52:31 am PST #24894 of 28212
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 28212
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 28212
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 28212
Because books.
Oh, yeah, everything Kevin Henkes. Rosemary Wells is also great.
aurelia - Jan 01, 2018 2:45:51 pm PST #24898 of 28212
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Thanks for all the suggestions! I ended up doubling what I had planned to spend but the girls should have plenty to read for a while.
WindSparrow - Jan 01, 2018 4:02:03 pm PST #24899 of 28212
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Thank you for giving books to kids who have lost so much, aurelia.
Laura - Jan 06, 2018 6:08:19 am PST #24900 of 28212
Our wings are not tired.
I'm conflicted about the book I am about a third of the way through. I'm reading Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. I enjoyed the first two and wanted to finish the 3rd, then decide whether to try the subsequent ones written by another author. I know at least I have to carefully choose something completely different in between.
The problem is the prose itself. The story and characters are quite engaging, but the writing is dull. As I was reading in bed last night I thought to myself that not once was I compelled to re-read a paragraph because it flowed so beautifully. Never once did I just have to read aloud a sentence to my family because it was so perfect. I don't know if it is because of the author, the original language, the translation. All I know is that 2 out of 3 isn't quite good enough. I need beautiful words and structure in addition to a compelling story and characters.
Kat - Jan 06, 2018 7:33:50 am PST #24901 of 28212
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Laura, I had a high school teacher who told me there are too many books in the world to read that there is no reason to stick with a bad book (not that it's a bad book but if 2 out 3 isn't good enough then it's not good enough).
Beverly - Jan 06, 2018 8:39:38 am PST #24902 of 28212
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Kat is so wise. I had to be firm with my compulsion to finish every book I started and use "too many books yet unread to finish a bad/boring/indifferent book" to justify setting an unsatisfying read aside to spend that time on others that engaged me.