Weekly book shelf, 4/29
Friday, April 29, 2011I am trying something new. Since we enjoy reading so much, and since it is such a large part of our lives here, I am going to start listing our reading materials from the week every Friday so I can link up with a group of moms who are doing the same thing. I want to become more involved in the wider internet community, get some great new book ideas in the process, and hopefully also give some.
This week we're discovering volcanoes, so we spent some time with volcano books, of course. We have the DK Volcano & Earthquake Eyewitness Book and the DK Incredible Earth Inside Guide (an older book). We also have the Usborne Volcanoes book.
Calvin also discovered (or rediscovered, now that he can read them to himself) the Nate the Great series, and between his dad's old books and the ones we got from the library he's read at least seven of these.
Calvin is also reading his way through the Magic Tree House series. We discovered this one by accident when we used their Knights and Castles Research Guide when we were traveling through the Middle Ages. Once he realized there were story books to go with the research books—a whole series of them—he was in love. This week he read the first book from the series, and he's now in the process of rereading the second book. He's determined to read all of them in order.
Together we are reading Glinda of Oz. We've been reading our way through this series since we discovered it together last October. This is the 13th book in the Oz series, and the final one written by L. Frank Baum. We are both very fond of all of these books. They make great read-alouds.
And on my bookshelf this week...I finished Journey to the End of the Night, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and have started on The Monk in the Garden, by Robin Marantz Henig.
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