Book List 2008: January - May

[barlow_girl]

Yes, it's almost halfway through the year and I'm just now posting what I've been reading. So sue me. :D Maybe I'll even get up the oomph to write a real post after this one.

1. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett: A classic, and one it's amazing I never read, considering my voracious reading as a child and while working in the Children's

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[overcast]

Amy!

LOVE the Secret Garden. One of my favorite kids' books. Having read it as a kid, though, I remember being confused about why she was living in India. I think I'll explain that stuff when it's time to read it to my kids.

Also love Jane Austen! It's hard to have favorites, but I do particularly like Persuasion and Mansfield Park. Maybe because the heroines aren't so obviously heroic. :)

[barlow_girl]

Yes, to all of that. :o]

[barlow_girl]

PS - the MacDonald book I listed above is also technically a kids' book, the sequel to The Princess and the Goblin. Both would make awesome read-aloud books (when your kids can do a chapter a night or whatever - they're not short).

♥

[overcast]

I think I have The Princess and the Goblin!

Right now, we're reading the Wizard of Oz. It's kind of rough going, though, because I don't really like reading out loud. :p

[barlow_girl]

Interesting fact: not that I agree with anything else he believes, but the Dalai Lama said when he was here (I heard from a friend) that the number one way kids learn compassion is being read to aloud. I guess with different voices, etc. it teaches them to put themselves in the characters' shoes. Verrrry interesting.

[overcast]

Maybe? But it doesn't make me love reading outloud :D

I find it easier now that Randall is capable of understanding more difficult (and therefore more interesting) stories. And he's gotten better at listening without interrupting.

[barlow_girl]

Oh, yeah, I can see both of those things. You're a good mom. :o]