The Trib lists their top 50 magazines.
I miss Oz. He'd get it. He wouldn't say anything, but he'd get it.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
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."
sumi - Jul 09, 2008 10:10:58 am PDT #6661 of 28380
Art Crawl!!!
DavidS - Jul 09, 2008 10:17:48 am PDT #6662 of 28380
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The Trib lists their top 50 magazines.
Rolling Stone? ::eyes roll like a stone which gathers no moss::
Hil R. - Jul 09, 2008 10:43:05 am PDT #6663 of 28380
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Two of my favorites as a kid were Tell Me a Mitzi and One Morning in Maine. The pictures in Tell Me a Mitzi are great, too -- really colorful and detailed. Strega Nona was another favorite.
For chapter books, I second the recommendation for Amelia Bedelia. Maybe also Winnie the Pooh?
flea - Jul 09, 2008 10:48:24 am PDT #6664 of 28380
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Casper is soon to be 5, and didn't really take to chapter books until this spring (though as with so many things, I think this is a big YKMV issue). They are still a little hit or miss. She really likes action and almost-scary ones. We just read Roald Dahl's BFG, which she LOVED, and have also read Danny the Champion of the World (that was one of the first chapter books we read) and Charlie and the Chocolate factory. She also LOVED The Spiderwick Chronicles, which are really pitched more at 8-10 year olds IMO. But she asks to reread these; we had to buy them. Other starter chapter books are the Ramona books, and I know a lot of kids who have loved the Magic Treehouse series (which Susan as a history buff will approve of) but Casper is a little hit or miss on those.
Dillo is currently in love with Knuffle Bunny, Ten Little Ladybugs (he loves ladybugs!) and Cars and Trucks and Things That Go (our copy in inscribed to my brother, when HE was 2!)
Barb - Jul 09, 2008 10:55:03 am PDT #6665 of 28380
“Not dead yet!”
Ooh, kids books! Love kids books.
Has anyone mentioned the Doreen Cronin/Betsy Lewin books?
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
These are the first three they did together and all are delightfully anarchistic.
Jessica - Jul 09, 2008 10:57:43 am PDT #6666 of 28380
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
t /is chopped liver
Jessica "Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear." Jul 9, 2008 10:31:37 am PDT
Aims - Jul 09, 2008 10:58:55 am PDT #6667 of 28380
Shit's all sorts of different now.
t points at Jess' number
Also Sooper Evil.
Jessica - Jul 09, 2008 11:00:57 am PDT #6668 of 28380
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil chopped liver! MUAHAHAHAHA!
Barb - Jul 09, 2008 11:02:21 am PDT #6669 of 28380
“Not dead yet!”
Whoops. Sorry. Didn't look that far back.
< hangs head in shame>
Hil R. - Jul 09, 2008 4:43:17 pm PDT #6670 of 28380
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Anyone remember a series of kids books about a girl named Betsy? I read them when I was in third grade or so, but they were already kind of easy for me at that point, so I think they're aimed a little younger. She had a little sister named Star, named that because she was born on Christmas. I'm pretty sure the books were from the fifties or earlier, but not much earlier than the thirties or so.