DarlaS Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 If you've never read Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, you may well get a laugh out of it: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/hns/indians/offense.html My secret to read alouds is doing it right before turning out the light. It helps both of us go to sleep, and it encourages him to get his little bod into bed. Plus, once you read aloud all 13 volumes of A Series of Unfortunate Events, everything else seems so ...short. We just finished Freddy Goes to Florida, and it was rather like Three Men In A Boat meets Beatrix Potter. Great fun!! Thanks! I have bookmarked this! Good stuff. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabetika Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Dude, you're SO not the worst. I still haven't finished Missie Lee (part of the Swallows and Amazons series) and I started it when my middle dd wasabout....7? She's 13.5. It was good, too! Sometimes I think I had another baby just so I could read certain books aloud again. I can't wait for Swallows and A's. And the Borrowers. And Betsy-Tacy. And The Wolves Chronicles. There are worse reasons to have babies, right?:tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miracleone Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Little Pilgrim’s Progress is not a fun read for me. I just ordered the audio cd with dramatization tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dm379 Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Red Sails to Capri. I made dd take over and finish reading it to her brother. We all loved the book but I just couldn't take it anymore! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deniseibase Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 You all are scaring me!! I'm trying to transition our read-aloud habit from mostly picture books to a mix of picture and chapter books, and the first book on my list is Pinocchio and I also have Freddy Goes to Florida on the list... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoot Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Hahahahaha! Funny how Pinocchio seems to be a popular one here. It took us forever too and neither of us really enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iskra Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 It's been over a year since we started "The House on Pooh Corner". Many books have gotten done since, but we're still in chapter 4 on that one. I really don't understand why it is so famous. It is sooo boring! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicoryChick Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 (edited) I have been avoiding this thread because the title made me feel guilty. Books we have not finished (don't get me wrong we were enjoying them too!):eek: : Cricket in Time Square (I think we had 2 chaptera left) Mr. Popper's Penguins (again I think I had 2 chapters left) Tirzah Little House in the Big Woods And Farmer Boy Yes, I am the worst read aloud mom. :w00t: I guess after reading aloud history, science, grammar etc, my voice is just too tired to do story time (and if I wait until bedtime I am too tired))...after enough time passes we lose our place and start another one. This year I decided that Story Time is going to be whatever audio classic I can find at the library at the time (beside Hank the Cowdog - although we love him too). :D Edited June 25, 2012 by kayinpa typos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted June 25, 2012 Author Share Posted June 25, 2012 I think what might make it worse is that we started in in April, finished it in June and didn't read any read alouds in between. :blush: Other things for school we did in May, but then we went away, came back, left again, etc. We have read some picture books, but not much. On a positive note, we are 2 days and 2 chapters into Henry Huggins! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5wolfcubs Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Mark Twain's The Prince & the Pauper -- I wanted to love it but it was no Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. When our renewals at the library were up I just returned it...and no one cared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 It's been over a year since we started "The House on Pooh Corner". Many books have gotten done since, but we're still in chapter 4 on that one. I really don't understand why it is so famous. It is sooo boring! Oh, yes, I'm struggling through this right now. I don't think my daughter understands a single word. The Phantom Tollbooth is another one. I think we're going on 5 months now. I think my neurotic, ueber-Type-A personality is incompatible with Phantom Tollbooth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheApprentice Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 We are having a hard time finishing "Peter Pan". Especially now that summer has longer days; they are playing all day and into the night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Oh rats! I just bought Secret of the Andes. I'll have to let them read it to themselves. :001_smile: That was actually the read-aloud that broke the camel's back a couple of years ago. We stopped reading thru Sonlight book selections mid-year after that read-aloud (it used to be part of Core 3, I think) and have not gone back. My son actually cried about halfway through that book, because he just couldn't deal with it anymore. :lol: On the flipside, my daughter actually liked it, so I had to keep reading it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilly Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 I started reading The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making to the kids months ago, and I hated reading it aloud. It was one of those books that I struggled to get through each night. Finally, after we got half-way through, I couldn't take it anymore. I "lost" the book, and we haven't been able to find it since. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodland_Mom Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Swiss Family Robinson seemed to never end for our family! Each time we sat down to read, the boys would joke and say, "I wonder what animal will die today!" that said, we did like the story fine, but it is not a favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 We read Secret of the Andes this year but it was one of those that I just couldn't get into so it probably took longer than is should have. This was the one that held us up too. None of us were eager to dive back in each chapter so it was not particularily missed when life got in the way. We did eventually finish it and have moved on with other books happily, but while over all the book was good it was not one that grabbed our attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocelotmom Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. We really enjoyed the first half or so, then she got to be a teenager and it started getting a bit slow. We stopped not too far from the end - I read the rest and decided there was nothing there that they'd be interested enough in to keep reading. Lots of others that we started before we got a good bedtime read-aloud routine established. When DS was 4-6 we started many more books than we finished. Oh rats! I just bought Secret of the Andes. I'll have to let them read it to themselves. :001_smile: My DS enjoyed it (he was 7 at the time), and has talked about it occasionally since. It was rather on the slow side, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Little house on the Prairie. After we finished it, I told DD she was on her own for the rest of the series. I can't believe how many pages, and pages, and pages were describing wheat! DD wanted to read "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". It's still sitting on the end table, bookmark a few chapters in. We didn't exactly give up...it's simply that the Lord of the Rings Lego sets came out, and we decided to dash to "The Hobbit" instead, and haven't looked back to poor Victor Hugo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaChicken Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Stowaway. We've read 10 other books while we've been reading it and we just can't seem to finish it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 Little house on the Prairie. After we finished it, I told DD she was on her own for the rest of the series. I can't believe how many pages, and pages, and pages were describing wheat! DD wanted to read "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". It's still sitting on the end table, bookmark a few chapters in. We didn't exactly give up...it's simply that the Lord of the Rings Lego sets came out, and we decided to dash to "The Hobbit" instead, and haven't looked back to poor Victor Hugo. You can get audio recordings of them that include Pa playing his fiddle. I like listening to the fiddling part. Right now we are listening to "On the Banks of Plum Creek". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwin Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 The last Narnia book dragged on and on, and was a bit much for a five year old (well, MY five year old). The first six he liked, though. And I'm surprised that people don't love Winnie the Pooh! I had to pace myself because I loved reading it aloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 I tried to read The Jungle Book and could not get into it. I read the first story couldn't take it. It sat on DD's bedside table for 3-4 months before I shelved it. My mom is going to read it to her next year! Another that was a bear to read was Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. Ariel loved the story, but the way it was written did not make it particularly conducive to being read aloud. When she gets older, she can read the sequels to herself if she wants more about Phronsie and Polly and the rest. It took us nearly 3 months to get through the first book. Reading. every. day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 I tried to read The Jungle Book and could not get into it. I read the first story couldn't take it. It sat on DD's bedside table for 3-4 months before I shelved it. My mom is going to read it to her next year! Another that was a bear to read was Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. Ariel loved the story, but the way it was written did not make it particularly conducive to being read aloud. When she gets older, she can read the sequels to herself if she wants more about Phronsie and Polly and the rest. It took us nearly 3 months to get through the first book. Reading. every. day. The first two in the "5 little peppers" are available from LibriVox. I think the third one is also, but we didn't care for the voice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 The Wind in the Willows. We all enjoy it it, but we've paused to finish some other things and then spring was upon us and our calendar was packed. now it is summer and we have more time. :) So we are just now on chapter 6, Toad just escaped and stole the motorcar... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted June 25, 2012 Share Posted June 25, 2012 (edited) :lol: It's currently The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet for us. My kidsliked it, but years later have no memory of it. I'm almost done with the Yellow Fairy Book and Wind in the Willows. Toad just escaped from prison in his washerwoman getup. Peter pan was abandoned, as the younger listener was too scared. Farmer Boy I read chapters randomly, like short stories. Edited June 25, 2012 by stripe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Did I kill this thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poke Salad Annie Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Did I kill this thread? No, but I might have. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairProspects Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 No we all slunk off to finish the read alouds. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Can't post. Reading. How the heck did I get so many read-alouds going at the same time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3Blessings Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 My dh has been reading The Hobbit for at least a month and a half. We love it- but it feels sllllooowww right now. To be fair we did move countries and taken a major family vacation in the same time frame. But it still feels like it is going to be painful to finally get it done.:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristinannie Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Milly-Molly-Mandy is that way for us right now. My kids love it, but I never seem to get to it. We have been reading it for at least 3 months! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmos Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Swiss Family Robinson seemed to never end for our family! Each time we sat down to read, the boys would joke and say, "I wonder what animal will die today!" that said, we did like the story fine, but it is not a favorite. This was ours too. It just went on and on and on. One preachy story after another, as far as I was concerned. Ds must have enjoyed it more than I did, though, as he has gone on to read it on his own several times. And I suppose I enjoyed the story too. It was just way too long for a read aloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeritasMama Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 We never did finish Little House in the Big Woods, though the boys weren't interested in it, and they were younger. LOL, it took us a year and a half to get through that one. I should have just dropped it, my boys couldn't care less, but I love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idnib Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 The Swiss Family Robinson have become like members of our own family, they've been here so long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted June 27, 2012 Author Share Posted June 27, 2012 The Swiss Family Robinson have become like members of our own family, they've been here so long. :lol: This is how we feel about the Ingall's! After Little House on the Prairie last year and Little House in the Big Woods this year. . . my dc love them and so do I but they are a killer to read aloud. The details slay me! :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 My girls and I are reading Little House in the Big Woods right now...and we have been for the past month. It's not that we don't enjoy it -- cause we do! We just can't remember to pick it up but every other week or so... (I think it's because the chapters are "stand alone"... no major suspense from one to the next and it's easy to just let it sit after finishing a chapter; unlike something like My Father's Dragon trilogy where one chapter tumbles into the next -- we read those 3 books very quickly because they had to know what happened.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Swiss Family Robinson seemed to never end for our family! Each time we sat down to read, the boys would joke and say, "I wonder what animal will die today!" that said, we did like the story fine, but it is not a favorite. What's funny is all the killing in that book didn't bother my boys. I thought it might since a year or two before we read, "Mr. Poppers Penguins" and about the only comment about it afterwards was about how shocking it was to just kill those fish. (In one chapter a penguin eats the goldfish). After further questioning it was discovered that the boys thought that since the pets the penguins were treated as 'people' they thought the same would happen to the goldfish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 My kids thought it was bizarre that they shot first, looked second. All the whipping out of guns was rather odd to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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