After we got our formal schoolwork done I called to see if the library was open again – and it was!! Yippee! It had been closed for a week so they could paint.
J1 was able to find Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader on DVD – it’s by the BBC – love it! He also found a book about Scooby Doo. Oh well, it has more words than pictures and that was my only criteria!
J2 of course hit the reference section first – I have to force him to go to the fiction area even though I promise I’ll read it to him. He found 1 book on the Roman Army and 4 on Dinosaurs and 1 easy reader about a girl who built a robot out of tin cans. Looks cute. The regular children’s librarian was on break so the stand-in enforced the rule about only 2 reference books per topic can be checked out. 🙁 So two Dinosaur books had to go back!
J3 found a cute book about candy that helps teach about adjectives – good practice for him! He also got a book about Keiko the whale in Free Willy – but I can’t imagine he remembers seeing her when we lived in Oregon.
And, I got three books for the boys – “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator” (need to finish the first one first!), “Peter Pan and Wendy” and “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” (I don’t know anything about this book – so I’ll definitely read it first.) And, for me – I found 3 Debbie Macomber books – I love her books about the ladies who knit! So now I’m trying some of her other books!
So the rest of the day is about reading – with occasional breaks to reboot the laundry or cook dinner! I’m off! 🙂
Hi Amy!
My oldest son likes reference type books too. He gets dinosaur ones, and he likes to read about ocean animals. Even jungle animals. He rarely wants to read fiction, though he does sometimes.
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i need to go to the library more often. i miss reading, but knitting has been so all-consuming lately! i have the ingredients for your last package, i just need to mix them up and send them off. 🙂 i’ll let you know as soon as its in the mail.
As for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – if i remember my Authurian Legend correctly, the story involves chopping off of heads (though oddly no one gets hurt). Different retellings have different middles to the story, but the ending is all about being honorable and keeping your promises, no matter now unplesant they may be. Who wrote the version you have? i’d love check it out.