I loved The Boxcar Children! I want to live in the boxcar and get dishes from the dump and clean them with sand!
You want to meet the real me now?
Mal ,'War Stories'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sophia Brooks - Dec 10, 2012 4:23:47 pm PST #3864 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Aims - Dec 10, 2012 4:25:32 pm PST #3865 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Dammit. Had an awesome post and I searched away.
Aims - Dec 10, 2012 4:28:38 pm PST #3866 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Attempt two:
Emeline's current faves:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (though Joe hates them) Kate DiCamillo (Winn-Dixie, Despereaux) Katie Kazoo Junie B (for the younger)
Also, Patricia Polacco can Do No Wrong. She is fantastic author. Her books look like picture books, but the issues she deals with are things like "special ed" kids, bullying, racism, cancer, etc. but in kid friendly terms and ways that kids can really relate to it. She is one of the most amazing children's authors I have come across.
For non-fiction, the "Who is ..." series is great; Emeline has almost of the ones about Influential Women.
DavidS - Dec 10, 2012 4:30:19 pm PST #3867 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
No! I had no idea it was ever filmed.
Oh, bother, I've confused it with E. Nexbit's The Railway Children.
hippocampus - Dec 10, 2012 4:31:45 pm PST #3868 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
Aurelia - Lemony Snicket? Narnia. The Oz books. Tuesdays in the Castle.
We are making forays into The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. I will let you know how it goes.
here's an app that lets you compare relative frames-per-second animations, up to your monitor's refresh rate
oh no I won't be doing that.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CONSUELA!
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flomp.
DavidS - Dec 10, 2012 4:42:36 pm PST #3869 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Happy birthday, Consuela! I think it's time you poured yourself some Scotch.
Dag, I'm always boggled by stuff I find on German pop culture. First it was finding out that the Donald Duck Uncle Scrooge comics were hugely popular, but weren't translated but given entirely new dialogue, laden with literary and philosphical allusions.
Similarly, Hogan's Heroes was massively popular but dubbed into German with highly ironic dialogue substituted (almost like Mystery Theater 3000).
Now, I find out that the juvenile series Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators (one of my favorites growing up) is still going strong over there and is up to 152 books.
SuziQ - Dec 10, 2012 4:43:21 pm PST #3870 of 30001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
::Headdesk::
I need some dealing~ma. Can't explain right now but yowza.
Liese S. - Dec 10, 2012 4:45:09 pm PST #3871 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I definitely was reading Wrinkle in Time by 7, but I wasn't a representative reader. I found it scary, but in a "want to read all the other books" way, not a nightmares way. I'm still pretty creeped out by the whole It thing, though, and the kids all playing in unison.
I later did a book report on Wind in the Door where it was really clear I wasn't understanding any of the major themes at all, and my mom had to read it to figure out what the fuck I was talking about. She didn't say WTF, tho.
I...haven't reread any of L'engle since her death.
DavidS - Dec 10, 2012 4:46:56 pm PST #3872 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I...haven't reread any of L'engle since her death.
I saw her speak at my college. She reminded me of a rather grand Episcopalian dragon.
erikaj - Dec 10, 2012 4:46:59 pm PST #3873 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I like the Wimpy Kid movies. Funny to see Steve Zahn as a father figure.