“We didn’t always live on Mango Street. Before that we lived on Loomis on the third floor, and before that we lived on Keeler. Before Keelier it was Paulina, and before that I can’t remember. But what I remember most is moving a lot. Each time it seemed there’d be more of us. By the time we got to Mango Street we were six—Mama, Papa, Carolos, Kiki, my sister Nenny and me.”
The House on Mango Street ~ Sandra Cisneros
The Skull is beautifully rendered in words and illustration. The pauses and subtext are spot on, a tale with an underlying lesson of acceptance and also friendship.
<SPOILERS> for those of us bookworms who sometimes skip to the ending while still in the middle of the book.
“Even as a little girl, I had thought that the swamp was a magical place where new lives began and old ones ended, where enemies and heroes weren’t always waht one expected, and where anything could happen, even to a clumsy princess.”
Excerpt from The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker
We officially have a rainbow teen. Not a rainbow baby, not a rainbow child, but a rainbow TEEN.
10 Word Review:
Bruce trying to nap
While readers control him
Hilarity ensues
“Ramona Quimby hoped her parents would forget to give her a little talking-to. She did not want anything to spoil this exciting day.”
from Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
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“Alex approached Black Elm as if she were sidling up to a wild animal, cautious in her walk up the long, curving driveway, careful not to show her fear. How many times had she made this walk? But today was different.”
from Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
Meeting the Doctor as a child
Adventure
Bigger on the Inside!
As a re-introduction to me and the blog if you’re new here, I’m just a girl who loves to read, who is raising two kids who also love to read.
10 word review:
Ghosts
Hidden and
Not-so-hidden ones
Vellum ghosts in vintage houses
Today, on May the 4th, I keep wondering why I keep coming back to Princess Leia.
It’s not because she’s a princess. Or a space princess.
It’s not because she fell in love with the reluctant hero.
This morning what struck me most is how I would not be the doctor I am without the support and encouragement of my family.
