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[mommydama]

I just purchased our read alouds for the next six months or so. I've been finding it hard to find stuff to read around here. We have SO MANY books, yet the ones I find myself wanting to read, that I think my girls would like or need to hear, are not here. I'm hoping all my girls will start reading more on their own eventually. I don't like

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[mommydama]

I love How to Eat Fried Worms! We read that not long ago. The girls thought it was hilarious. The Mixed Up Files is on the list for the future actually. We've read Anne of Green Gables and all the Little House Books until she is an adult, and Pollyanna and Wind in the Willows...it is hard to find GOOD stuff that isn't deprssing now. Most Newberry and other award winning books are depressing, unfortunately. And I figure fluffy, happy stuff like Beverly Cleary can be read on their own time. I have to choose carefully what I have time to read. I tried Tom Sawyer and they hated it. So...trying to take their tastes into account as well. Several of these books deal with issues we are talking about on a daily basis right now.

Macbeth is depressing! We have a Shakespeare storybook from Usborne that I have LOVED. The girls think the stories are fascinating. We haven't gotten all the way through it yet.

[mommydama]

I cannot get my girls into fantasy or sci fi and this is almost all that you've listed there (I've read almost all of what you have listed). We stalled out in the second Harry Potter book, they didn't like Narnia (I couldn't even get them through one), every time I suggest a fantasy or sci fi book (such as The Wizard of Earthsea and Dragonsong both of which I own) they groan and complain. Especially Maria. I fought this for a long time as I am ALL ABOUT sci fi and fantasy. I first tried to read Isaac Asimovs Foundation Trilogy when *I* was 10! I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy when I was 12. These are my favorite kinds of books. This is not what any of my children are interested in and I'm sick of the frustration of trying to get them into it. I'm looking for stuff they will actually listen to and enjoy.

[mommydama]

I'm deleting this after I'm sure it has sent, as it gives way more info about one of my kids than I'm comfortable with right now in public, but wanted to respond to this specific comment for context.

[mommydama]

And yes, I actually do think these books are good. I read all but three or four of them at about Maria's age and loved them all. That is why I chose them.