phew…..what a week! First full week at school (always a challenge for kids and parents) and BBAW filled with lots and lots of visiting and visitors. Lots of good feelings are going around, so upbeat the toes are tapping…..so here, enjoy! Try and see if you can name some of […]
This is what you all have been waiting for. The Cat Pictures of Lenore’s 2 kittens she will be getting and Emmy, the older cat. Well here they are and I hope they are as cute as you all hoped they would be. Read the full interview below. Enjoy! If […]
I signed up to do an interview swap on BBAW’s website and my partner is Lenore from Presenting Lenore (click here to see her blog.) Interviewing another blog writer is a good experience and this was a lot of fun. So I asked her 10 questions and here is what […]
Summary Wow! Dan Brown has created yet another enthralling novel. This is the second one in the series with Robert Langdon (Angel’s and Demons being the first.) In this thrilling book Robert Langdon is called in to decipher a code written on a dead mans body(!). The weird thing is […]
The domino effect.
Funday Friday! Think IKEA is just about furniture? Think again! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCB7RqGS684&feature=player_embedded
Summary *From School Library Journal Review on Amazon.com Parallel stories follow teenagers Spence Morgan, a farm boy from Utah, and Dieter Hedrick, a farm boy from Bavaria. Stirred by complex feelings of patriotism and adolescent insecurities, both young men find themselves fighting for their respective countries in World War II. […]
Summary Robert Langdon is a symbologist and he has been sent some information that the secret society known as the Illuminati – a group devoted to science since the time of Galileo and condemning Catholicism since then too – is actually still in existence. When Max Kohler, director of CERN, calls him […]
The first in an occasional series of weird and wacky bookcases or book related things. Try and top any of this. But how do you get to the books which are in the center of the circles?????????
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This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. [Post was updated October 2019] Summary “As the German troops begin their campaign to “relocate” all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the […]
They are many more updates on the Titanic Expedition website. So go check it out. http://expeditiontitanic.com/ Enjoy!!!!!!
by Harper Lee Summary When a local African American man, Tom Robinson, is accused of raping a white girl, Mayella Ewell, Maycomb turns into a nasty little town. It is nasty for Atticus, Scout, Jem, and Calpurnia. Atticus, a white lawyer, is assigned to defend Mr. Robinson. And then, people […]
What is one step up from interested? Obsessed? No, passionate. And that is what I am about the Titanic as you can tell from my last post. So here I am once again talking to you about the Titanic. But this time I am not telling you, I am showing […]
The sun takes a little longer to get above the trees in the morning and there is a chill in the air. Summer is winding down. It is almost time for back to school. Say it isn’t so. No more sleeping late, reading books until your eyes droop. Lazing about. […]
One of the favorite movies in our family is “Home Alone”. Every little kids nightmare – getting lost / being forgotten which turns into every teenagers dream – getting lost / being forgotten. What a crazy family, what a great house, what a brave hero saving his home from the […]
Summary Life in the clans is normal. For now. When a stranger named Sol arrives to the ThunderClan territory they are nervous. He says he has some important news to share that is important for the clan. Leafpool and Jaypaw accept to listen to it because they are medicine cats. […]
Guess what? It is almost September and that means that school is starting soon. Yeah, I know that you all are probably sad that the summer is almost over but your fun does not have to end just yet because September is Roald Dahl’s birthday. This means that there is […]
This is the newest Simon’s Cat video and this is exactly what my cat Merlin would do. Enjoy. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKvNqe8cKU4&feature=player_embedded]
by Guest Blogger M.O.M. Every once in a while a book finds its way to you that is a surprise. A shock. You don’t expect the story to move in a particular direction. To do what it does. You are taken by surprise at how much emotion the book […]
