Satori Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 This week we're reading Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo with my dd4. Last night I started having her draw pictures as I read and it was entertaining to see her ideas of the black dungeon and other things. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kfamily Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 We're half-way through the Penderwicks on Gardam Street (which is the sequel to The Penderwicks) and dh enjoys this one so much he has been reading it!:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Needleroozer Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 We have two going. Our breakfast read is To Kill A Mockingbird. The teens are loving this, but it takes us a long time to get through it, because there are a lot of words the kids don't know and they interrupt me to look them up, lol. The Dude is reading The Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni to us at night (on the few nights he is not away for work). His traveling 5 days out of 7 really gets in the way of our nightly read a loud time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon H in IL Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Summer has interrupted our read-aloud routine. I am unhappy. Reading aloud is my favorite thing. I need to just ignore the moans and groans and rally the troops (both of them) and force them to listen to something good. They secretly love it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudoMom Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 We'll finish up The Sign of the Beaver this week, and begin The Trumpet of the Swan (probably, unless I go buy something else). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i.love.lucy Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 I'm mostly reading picture books to my 4yo and letting the newly 9yo read what she wants (she's reading an American Girl Samantha mystery right now). I did get Trumpet of the Swan this week at the library and am hoping to get back into the read aloud groove with that one. Or maybe even Hank the Cowdog (we tried the audio and I found it annoying). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HRAAB Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Pollyanna and Children of the Summer by Margaret Anderson (about Henri Fabre). Janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree House Academy Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 I am doing "Squanto - Friend of the Pilgrims" with ds6 and "George Rogers Clark" with ds10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melora in NC Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Ballet Shoes, by Noel Streatfield. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna T. Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 We are reading The Wind in the Willows. It is so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kfamily Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Melora in NC, Hi! I just wanted to share with you that my dds loved Ballet Shoes and we also enjoyed the movie version of it that we rented from Netflix. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 We are reading The Battle of the Labyrinth, book 4 from Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I finished the series earlier this year and I love reliving the adventure with my ds. These books are so cool. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 I'm reading Seven-Day Magic with dd9, and The Red Fairy Book with dd6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jujsky Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Socks by Beverly Cleary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueridge Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 My girls are in the summer musical production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at our local dinner theater, so I am reading the book aloud to them in the afternoons before practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amber in SJ Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 We are reading aloud the 4th in the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull. We have a line of friends who are calling almost daily to see if we have finished it yet. Amber in SJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen in PA Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 During school we are reading from Mary Pope Osborne's Favorite Medieval Tales and Linnea in Monet's Garden. At bedtime we are reading Lloyd Alexander's Time Cat, which both kids are really enjoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Rat Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Huckleberry Finn. We've been a bit distracted lately but the kids are loving it. They adored Tom Sawyer as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Needleroozer Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 I'm reading Seven-Day Magic with dd9, and The Red Fairy Book with dd6. Love these Fairy Books! Mine are teens and I still find these books in their beds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntieM Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Summer of the Monkeys (Wilson Rawls) to my big kids. Hilarious and I *love* his descriptions of Ozark life and the grandparent-grandchild relationship. Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) to my 4 yo. It's her first big chapter book read-aloud, she is paying attention well, understanding it perfectly and always asking for her next chapter each day. I will blubber extra hard when Charlotte dies this time because dd4 is my last *baby* to go through the Charlotte's-Web-First-Chapter-Book-Read-Aloud tradition in our home. I'll just have to set my book aside for when the grandkids are ready for it (but they have to be born first, hence my state of mourning...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Starting I, Juan Peraja. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aubrey Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Wizard of Oz, with some editing-on-the-fly. Writers can be weird, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlgbug Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 does the Lion King count? its like 3 nights worth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssexton Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Right now we're reading The Moffats by Eleanor Estes at bedtime. We've taken quite a few nights off this summer. Need to get more regular though--the kids miss it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 We read the whole Tripod series. We've been reading Sherlock Holmes mysteries lately. I'm going to read The Secret Garden next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vettechmomof2 Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 We just finished Where the Red Fern Grows and are now reading Hank the Cowdog # 29. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRG Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 We just finished reading The Princess and the Goblin. We're going to start reading Holes tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in MI Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 We just finished Tuck Everlasting. I've been trying to decide what to read next. Amy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 I am half-way through reading the Secret Garden to my daughter. I have read two chapters tonight and she is begging for a third as she finished making a birthday card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandpsmommy Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 We're half-way through the Penderwicks on Gardam Street (which is the sequel to The Penderwicks) and dh enjoys this one so much he has been reading it!:001_smile: We just finished this on audiobook in the car. We really enjoyed it, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cillakat Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 Just read _The Penderwicks_ and _The Borrowers_. My favorite though has to be the Jim Dale audiobook of _Around the World in 80 Days_ :) Katherine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 Wizard of Oz, with some editing-on-the-fly. Writers can be weird, lol. I'm a huge fan of the Wizard of Oz movie. I read the book for the first time last summer, it was very weird. I never did make ds read it. That may be one instance when the movie was better than the book, at least IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandpsmommy Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 We're in the middle of The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurel Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and Charlotte's Web. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blessdmommy Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis The House on Pooh Corner - A.A. Milne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiana Daniels Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 Great question! We're reading James and the Giant Peach. The best part is, I get to use my faux British accent. IS there a better way to read? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiegirl Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 We just finished The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke and have started The Mysterious Benedict Society--The Perilous Journey by Trenton Stewart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 We are reading "Summer with Elisa' by Johanna Hurwitz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokotg Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 We're reading On the Banks of Plum Creek and re-reading (first time for my 6 year old) The Invention of Hugo Cabret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearnpurple Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 We started with Secret Garden then went to the library and got the "Fudge" books by Judy Blume and had a ball with them! We just went and they picked out Soupy Saturdays with the Great One and the Pain by Judy Blume. It is neat to read books to my kids that I read as a kid! Of course, sometimes they read the books they have picked out.....Ds is reading through the "Dear America" series and dd2 has had all the "Olivia" books she can find.....dd1 finds a little bit of everything! Once school starts, we will be back to our list....not sure yet where we will go from here..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathyBC Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 The Home Ranch by Ralph Moody, third in the Little Britches series. Good stuff. :thumbup1: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikeBookBread Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 Just finished LWW, starting Prince Caspian tomorrow. We're takin' the "old school" order route. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TulaneMama Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 We are reading "The Giver" with our almost 10yo, and various picture books with the 4yop and almost 2yo. We are in the market for a good family read that everyone would enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FriedClams Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 Keeping it easy during summer so we're doing family audio books - piling on the bed, turn off the lights and hang out. We're doing The Treasure Seekers and just finished The Railway Children. Both are BRILLIANT. I am such a Nesbit junkie and the kids just get to come along for the ride, LOL. She's pure brilliance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funschooler5 Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 The Hobbit...I've been wanting to read this myself for years (loved the Lord of the Rings movies) but I'm just getting around to reading it :blushing:. DD has already listened to the audiotape (BBC version) several times, so DS is listening to me read it aloud. We are both enjoying it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 "The Wizard in the Tree" by Lloyd Alexander Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyNellen Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in CA Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 Persuasion by Austen Almost done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 Little House in the Big Woods for fun. Across Five Aprils for history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamturner Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 We are finishing The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. The kids love it and so do I!! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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