AJAiken wrote:Have you read any of his short stories? The Light Princess is one of the best known but others like The Golden Key and The Carasoyn are unusual but wonderful.
I have not. This was my first foray into MacDonald.
The House with a Clock in its Walls by John Bellairs. I liked this, but found it creepy.
I have to admit, I kind of liked this book. It WAS creepy, but it's the kind of creepy I like because nothing gruesome really happens. I also liked it because some of the things I was predicting, didn't happen.
Primarily the relationship that fell apart between Lewis and his baseball friend. I only wanted to see the movie because it has Jack Black and Cate Blanchett. I mean, c'mon! The trailer looked horrible though.
Yesterday I was browsing through Mensa's website (I was looking for homeschool material) and I came across this cool reading program for kids under 18 years old.
https://www.mensaforkids.org/achieve/ex ... n-reading/Most of you would be most interested in the high school age I'm sure, but I also know some of you have young kids *winks at stwin* and I wanted to share that list in particular as it's the one I'd love to complete over the next year or two.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Viorst, Judith
All-of-a-Kind Family – Taylor, Sydney
Amelia Bedelia – Parish, Peggy
Anansi the Spider – McDermott, Gerald
Bedtime for Frances – Hoban, Russell
Blueberries for Sal – McCloskey, Robert*
The Cabin Faced West – Fritz, Jean
The Carrot Seed – Krauss, Ruth
The Cat in the Hat – Seuss, Dr.
Charlotte’s Web – White, E.B.*
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Barrett, Judy
Corduroy – Freeman, Don**
The Cricket in Times Square – Selden, George
Curious George – Rey, H.A.**
The Dot – Reynolds, Peter
Freckle Juice – Blume, Judy
Frederick – Lionni, Leo
Frog and Toad Are Friends – Lobel, Arnold*
The Garden of Abdul Gasazi – Van Allsburg, Chris
George and Martha – Marshall, James
Goodnight, Moon – Brown, Margaret Wise**
Harry the Dirty Dog – Zion, Gene
How the Leopard Got His Claws – Achebe, Chinua
The Hundred Dresses – Estes, Eleanor*
I Want My Hat Back – Klassen, Jon
If I Never Forever Endeavor – Meade, Holly
Leo the Late Bloomer – Kraus, Robert
The Little Engine That Could – Piper, Watty**
Little House on the Prairie – Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Little Toot – Gramatky, Hardie
The Littles – Peterson, John
Madeline – Bemelmans, Ludwig
Make Way for Ducklings – McCloskey, Robert*
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel – Burton, Virginia Lee
Millions of Cats – Gag, Wanda
The Mouse and the Motorcycle – Cleary, Beverly
Mr. Popper’s Penguins – Atwater, Richard and Florence*
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh – O’Brien, Robert*
Paul Revere’s Ride – Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The Polar Express – Chris Van Allsburg
Peppe the Lamplighter – Bartone, Elisa
Pippi Longstocking - Lindgren, Astrid
Put Me in the Zoo – Lopshire, Robert
Rabbit Hill – Lawson, Robert
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 – Cleary, Beverly
The Quiltmaker’s Gift – Brumbeau, Jeff
The Reluctant Dragon – Grahame, Kenneth
Sam the Minuteman – Benchley, Nathaniel
Sarah, Plain and Tall – MacLachlan, Patricia
Shiloh – Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
The Snowy Day – Keats, Ezra Jack*
Stellaluna – Cannon, Janell
The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales – Scieszka, Jon
Stone Soup – Brown, Marcia
Tale of Despereaux – DiCamillo, Kate*
The Story of Babar – Brunhoff, Jean de*
The Story of Ferdinand – Leaf, Munro*
Strega Nona – dePaola, Tomie
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig, William
The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Potter, Beatrix*
The Three Little Pigs – Galdone, Paul
Tikki Tikki Tembo – Mosel, Arlene
Where the Wild Things Are – Sendak, Maurice**
Winnie-the-Pooh – Milne, A.A.**
*Own it
**Read it
We've read a number of these books already and own even more of them. Most I'll probably reread since I have to date them, but some of the longer ones (like Winnie-the-Pooh) I'm going to just try to remember approximately when we finished it as I don't think I'll be able to reread it any time soon.