Okay, so how many more reading days are there before Christmas?? In this last post of the year, I want to thank the readers and subscribers for joining me in this cyber conversation! I have learned a lot—for an old broad—and look forward to becoming more educated about blogs and books so we can more [...]
Entries from December 2007
December 21, 2007
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
The other book that really struck me this year is Linda Urban’s first novel, A Crooked Kind of Perfect (Harcourt, $16). Life is not perfect. The heroine is ten-year-old Zoe Elias, who knows from the get go that life is not exactly perfect. Her father has problems leaving the living room; her mother is a [...]
December 13, 2007
The Curious Adventures of the Abandoned Toys
Oh, the power of a story. Kids who are at-risk just don’t have much access to the stories that might touch their souls and comfort or inspire them. But they are out there! These two books will appeal to the ‘mythic self’ in a child. And for a child who is in foster care, or [...]
