Currently
(With apologies for not always being as current as it should be)
This year’s readalouds:
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Return of the Indian by Lynne Reid Banks
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George; the link is for a modern paperback, though we have a grand old 1959 library hardbound with lovely pen and ink drawings, which stays open nicely for reading and picture perusing.
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith; I linked to the older library edition, with the illustration of two boys and the water horse. I’m not keen on movie tie-ins, so I avoided linking to the new movie tie-in paperback.
*********************************************************
What We’re Reading, Watching, Listening to, and Playing with:
Reading
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. Cordery
The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty by Wilfrid Sheed
Watching
“Waitress” (2007) with Keri Russell, Adrienne Shelly, Nathan Fillion, and Andy Griffith; directed by Adrienne Shelly
“The Steve McQueen Collection”: The Great Escape, Junior Bonner, The Magnificent Seven, The Thomas Crown Affair
Listening to
“That’s Entertainment” six CD box set, fortunately bought before Amazon hiked the price by $30
Playing with
I am the cameraman that filmed the BBC 2 Natural World “Lobo -The Wolf That Changed America that was recently shown hAere in the UK. I am really impressed with how much research you have done on Ernest Thompson Seton and see that you read the article by Steve Gooder and that youwould really like to see my film. If you give me an address I will happily post you a DVD of the film so that you can watch it. It will go out on PBS but not for many months so you guys could be the first to see it in Canada. Very impressed with your site and what you are doing.
Best wishes. Ian McCarthy