Picture Book Highlights
All of our children love the series about Camille the Giraffe by Jacques Duquennoy. These simple French books are not high quality literature and border on twaddle. But they are cute, simple, and have been a great way to introduce lots of French vocabulary. We've been getting them from the library, but I think I may need to purchase a few to take with us when we leave. All 3 kiddos ask for these regularly.
Michelle's Reading (7 next week!)
Yes, she's going to be 7 next week...that sounds so OLD to me. Sigh. Anyhow, her favorite read lately has been the first book in the Boxcar Children series. She has covered reams of paper with drawings of all of their adventures. When Papa mentioned something at the dinner table the other night about an "orphan sock" in the laundry, Michelle pipes up: "I'm reading a book about orphans. That means their mother and father have died." Funny girl.
Featured School Book
We are most of the way through Among the Pond People by Clara Dillingham Pierson. These cute stories really have a lot of facts about the various pond animals packed into them. I've learned some interesting things myself! This volume is part of a series of 5 that also cover the Meadow, Forest, Farm, and Night People. We're looking forward to enjoying a couple more of them as part of our science and nature studies next year too.
Bedtime Read-Aloud
We finished Charlotte's Web, which was loved by all. Our current read-aloud is A Little Princess which we are enjoying as well. We also recently ditched the devotional we were using and have gone back to reading from a Bible story book (The Children's Bible in 365 Stories) so as to better engage the two littlest in our "family" Bible time. So far, so good.
On Mama's Nightstand
Too many!! All of those books on the sidebar over there...yes I'm slowly reading through them. Depends on the day and what I'm in the mood for. =) I have also recently been on a Kindle downloading binge in part due to an Amazon gift card for my birthday and in part due to a huge list of FREE classic missionary biographies that someone posted over on the Ambleside Online forum earlier this week. =) New to me books = Happy Mama. Currently from this treasure hoard I am reading Sleeping Coconuts by John and Bonnie Nystrom. We knew the Nystroms when we worked in Papua New Guinea. Their story was familiar to me, but I am enjoying reading the backstory and their insights into what God taught them...some have been particularly timely and convicting. I have also run across many friends, colleagues, and neighbors in the pages of this book...it's a little weird (in a good way!) to read about people I know in real life as book characters. If you enjoy the missionary biography genre, you'll probably enjoy this book too.
What have you been reading this week?
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