Yearly Archives: 2011


2 Years and Counting!

  Anniversary! Today I am 2 years old (well my blog is anyway!) ♩  ♪ ♫ ♬ Happy Anniversary to me! Happy Anniversary to me! Happy Anniversary to meeeeeeeeeeeeee! Happy Anniversary to me!  ♩  ♪ ♫ ♬ (That was sung to the Happy Birthday song if you did not figure it out!)


Tall Story by Candy Gourlay

This was the other book Parenthetical and I  read for the Nerds Heart YA. Summary “Working through the many meanings of “tall story,” first-time author Gourlay slam-dunks this tale of a towering boy from the Philippines and the pint-size, basketball-crazy half sister with whom he has recently been reunited. Told […]










American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

Summary Amazon.com “Indie graphic novelist Gene Yang’s intelligent and emotionally challenging American Born Chinese is made up of three individual plotlines: the determined efforts of the Chinese folk hero Monkey King to shed his humble roots and be revered as a god; the struggles faced by Jin Wang, a lonely Asian American […]






What To Read Next?

School’s out!! Summer is beckoning with long sunny days, warm starry nights, no homework and lots of time to read. And read. Need some suggestions? Thoughtfully NPR has done some that look interesting. Here. And if it gets too hot this might just be the best book. Snow……in summer.













A Little Early Summer Fun

Want to be part of a global event? Want to celebrate one of the greatest children’s book every written and the man behind it? Want to spread a little good will? Now is your chance……as part of the 5oth anniversary of James And The Giant Peach you can help to […]