Earlier this summer my ten-year old daughter and I were reading books about pigs: Charlotte’s Web, Babe the Gallant Pig, and Ace: A Very Important Pig. From there we started re-reading The Complete Book of Pooh, but needed something new to read. After chatting with the honey vendor at the local farmers’ market, we decided to learn about honeybees. I found The Life and Times of the Honeybee on Amazon (I was able to purchase a usedread more…
We finished Babe: The Gallant Pig about mid-week and I must say again that I found the book to be much more charming and meaningful than the movie (which I also enjoyed). I felt that I knew the characters of Fly, Ma, Babe, and Farmer Hoggett much more so from the book than in the movie. As with Charlotte’s Web, Hannah and I were both sad when the book was over. As we neared the finalread more…
Although I have read to my now 10 year old daughter since she was a wee babe, this summer we have finally moved into her listening to (and enjoying) longer chapter type books. With my daughter’s severe expressive/receptive language disorder, reading long blocks of text to her and keeping her engaged in the story has been a challenge. With some further growth in her language abilities, I was hopeful that we could progress into more complexread more…
