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I noticed a new book here at the library, The Dog Who Danced by Susan Wilson, the author of One Good Dog, which I loved. Anyone read it? I am reading something else, so I haven't checked it out yet.
Jane
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lovemyfamily- That is so sweet of you to offer to send me the book! I would hate to have you pay for the postage etc. I can always see if I can get it from the library.
I started the book Rena's Promise and it has sucked me right in. I am having a hard time putting it down, love that.
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I heard about a good sounding children's book. Yup - I'll read anything and this story about books sounds wonderful. Laurie - I thought of your boys. Since I don't have grandchildren & my granddog won't sit still for reading, if anyone else get's hold of it before I do, let me know.
The Lonely Book by Kate Bernheimer and illustrated by Chris Seban (Schwartz & Wade; $17.99).
When a wonderful new book arrives at the library, at first it is loved by all, checked out constantly, and rarely spends a night on the library shelf. But over time it grows old and worn, and the children lose interest in its story. The book is sent to the library's basement where the other faded books live. How it eventually finds an honored place on a little girl's bookshelf—and in her heart—makes for an unforgettable story sure to enchant anyone who has ever cherished a book. Kate Bernheimer and Chris Sheban have teamed up to create a picture book that promises to be loved every bit as much as the lonely book itself. (Recommended age group is 4-8)0 -
Hi all,
I'm currently reading "The Tiger's Wife "for book club and enjoying it. Going back to some of the historical fiction - I have loved reading Edward Rutherford's books, like London, Sarem and Russia - I think are the titles.
I am still working on Stephen Kings Book 11/22/63. Went to see the horror gothic musical he wrote with John Mellencamp and TBone Burnett. Was disappointed. The music and set were wonderful but the plot just didn't cut it. Seemed like Stephen dropped the whole plot which was too bad - had a great devil - "shape" character.
Looking forward to reading Game of Thrones and To marry an English Lord.
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Speaking of books, the chlidren's author Maurice Sendak who wrote Where the Wild Things Are died today. I am sure many of us remember reading that beloved book to our children.0
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I love "The Giving Tree"
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Minustwo- Thanks so much for the book suggestion for the boys, I will look for it at the library
Wenweb- My brother, who is the Godfather of my oldest son gave him that book when he was Baptised. I had never read The Giving Tree before and I don't think I have ever read that book without crying. But, I love it too. The other book recently I got around Dr. Seuss's birthday was The Places You'll Go. OMG. I read it to my youngest at bed time and sobbed the whole way through. I read it again after he went to bed to my DH. How the book lays out the triumphs, failure and heartache LIFE that lays ahead for a young child....that was one smart man.
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Laurie: One book I always give new Mothers is Are You My Mother by P.D.Eastman. It's not Seuss but published as an I Can Read It All By Myself beginner book. My son's old copy is totally worn out & I know it by heart.
Elizabeth: Sorry to hear about Mauarice Sendak. He was amazing.
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I hope you don't mind my just dropping in here. I read a few books a week, since I have not been working for a few months.
Sweetcorn, I have read The Dog who Danced. I enjoyed it very much. I have read all of Susan Wilson's books. She lives in the same town I do and I run into her at the dog park every so often. She is a lovely person and has a very cute little dog.
I love all the kids books that have been mentioned, but my all time favorite is Love You Forever by Robert Munsch. Makes me cry everytime.
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LOVE Love You Forever!!!0
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mac - Thanks for the reference - Love You Forever. I went immediately to Amazon to check it out. I'm a sucker for kids books even though my "baby" is 42 this year and no grandkids.0
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Love You Forever is my all-time favorite. You Are to Me by Rebecca Doughty is another great one.0
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Ahh....Love You Forever......
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Laurie The only other book (besides "The Giving Tree") that makes me cry as you mentioned is "The Runaway Bunny". I didn't come across it after my children were grown!
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Love You Forever was a nightly favourite when my kids were little. I could barely get through it without a lump in my throat.0
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If you can believe, I didn't discover The Chronicles of Narnia until well after my son was grown & gone. Now I've read all the books twice. But back to the young ones - anyone else remember Mike Mulligan and his Steamshovel? My bookshelf cleaning project totally bogged down with children's books. I can't seem to get rid of any.0
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I loved "Mike Mulligan and the Steamshovel". Don't get rid of them...grandchildren
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several years ago when my children were little, I was remembering a book - I had enjoyed as a child, but was sketchy on the details and went searching for it, it was The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton - who wrote and illustrated Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. I found other books, Choo Choo (about a naughty runaway train!) and Katy and the Big Snow (about a snowplow). So my advice is not only don't get rid of your copy of Mike Mulligan - see if you can find some of Burton's other children's books, they are all excellent.
Julie E
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Does anyone remember the Mr. and Little Miss book series by Roger Hargreaves? My daughter loved them and I enjoyed reading them to her.0
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macatacmv--Of course we con't mind you dropping by. Thanks for answering my question about The Dog who Danced. I will pick it up here at the library soon. And what a thrill to see the author in your town.
Jane
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We have Mike Mulligan and the Steamshovel! My mother kept all of our childhood books for us
I just got back from the library and lucked out! I got Calebs Crossing, The Weird Sisters and The Seamstress!!! I am going to throw some laundry in and do a ten minute pick up and hit the couch with one of them.
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You all are making me cry, just mentioning some of the children's books that have meant so much to me. My daughter, who lost her dad 2 months before she graduated from high school, gave her valedictory address on "The Giving Tree." There wasn't a dry eye in the auditorium.
I didn't discover "Love you Forever" until she was in college, but I gave it to her and have given one to each of her children as they were born.
On to a less emotional topic....I highly recommend "Caleb's Crossing." Others I have read recently and enjoyed were "The Language of Flowers and "Lost Saints of Tennessee."
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Awwhhh....Wave...now you're going to make me want to cry......
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Speaking of Shel Silverstein...In our home we had two books of his that were among our favorites:
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...I still buy A Giraffe and a Half as baby gifts. Recently, I bought it for my 3 year old grand-nephew for his mom to read him on the airplane. When he returned home, we skyped and while talking with him and not getting any answers....except stares....I finally asked him if he enjoyed reading the book on the airplane and his face lit up and he was beaming! I asked him if the giraffe was funny and he started to giggle.
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Headed to Oklahoma early tomorrow to sit by the bedside of a friend w/Parkinson's Disease who is now in hospice. Throat muscles no longer work, bladder & kidney shutting down. This will be my first flight since LE diagnosis & I'll be trying my new Belisse compression bra & sleeves & gauntlets. And why is this on the book thread? I downloaded 7 books to my Kindle from Amazon - some from my list & some you all have recommended. The best part of the trip will be reading while my friend "sleeps" - since there will be lots of just sitting there. I won't have access to a computer but will send book reviews when I return.
Thanks for continuing the children's book recommends.
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As long as topics are active , I am able to find them without having to scroll for pages and pages, so maybe this new format will be doable after all.....and really is there much choice? I have not noticed that they have done anything with the requests or complaints. Anyway, reading.....is Love you Forever, the one about the little boy and his dog and how he ends up carrying her to bed at night? If so I read it, and sobbed. I am a sucker for animals and love books about them. I really liked One Good Dog which was mentioned, but some reason was not that fond of The Art of Racing in the Rain....I did however, love Merle's Door. Lately, I have just been reading what is around. I finished this book I picked up somewhere called More Than You Know which was actually quite good. I was at my Dad's and then had nothing to read when I finished it so I went through the book case and found Journey by James Michener which I then read and enjoyed. Then I read a book by David Sedaris that my friend Cyndee brought to me and I like him so much....(he is really funny)....that I went to Half Priced Books and bought two of his other books. To me he seems like a tamer version of Augenten Burroughs. I am now going to read Loving Frank. I also picked up a few Carl Hiasin books that were marked down....simple reads that usually make me laugh and I bought the lst book by Sue Grafton since my friend has read them all the way through the alphabet and loved them. I love HalfPrice Books and don't know how they do it since some of the books are obviously brand new. My eye doctor's wife was reading the book that is after 50 Shades of Gray....she said she likes it better.
Have any of you ever seen the book, The Ink Bottle Babies?...it was my mother's and is a collection of fairy tells and I loved it....The Magic Spoon, The Magic Pitcher, all of them.....I think the author was Laura Rountree Smith. The ink bottle babies are drops of ink and their mother is always telling them the stories to get them to go to sleep.
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I don't read much fiction, but I adore biographies about women: Catherine the Great; Elizabeth I; her mother, Anne Boleyne; Marie Antoinette; Queen Victoria; etc., as well as diaries, letter-books, and journals. Right now, I'm reading Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman, Charles East (ed.) and Aristocrats, by Stella Tillyard, and The Sisters Who Would be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey, by Leanda De Lisle is waiting in the wings.0
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Hi Marybe, glad you were able to track this thread down.
I have been super busy with end of the year school stuff, but I did read Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill. Hill was Jackie Kennedy's Secret Service Agent for her three years in the White House and the first year after. He was the agent who jumped on the car and shielded her and the President on the way to the hospital after the shooting. It is a really sweet book. He adored and still adored her, and the account of the assassination is searing...brings you right back to that time. The only false note to me is all the descriptions of gowns, hairstyles etc. No man, no matter how observant, would remember all those details and someone dug through old newspapers looking for things like that! An interesting side note to me is that Hill was an orphan, and adopted by a family and grew up in a small town in North Dakota, my home state.
Right now I am reading a very well written and disturbing book called Room by Emma Donoghue about a teenage girl who is abucted and forced to exist in a hidden room under the compete control of her captor. She has a child with him and the book is written through the eyes of this 5 year old child, whose whole world is 'the room'.
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I read Room. The part that got me was the child's language and the way every object was assigned a gender as in the chair, she moved. The mother was a perfectly normal educated young woman. Would she teach her child to talk that way? I do not have children of my own and never raised any, but all of my friends had children and I was around my nieces a lot and none of them ever talked like that even in early years....but then again, they weren't confined to one room. I just didn't find it to be very believable.....the story yes, because I know there have actually been cases of abductions like that, but the way the child speaks, No. The abductor really gave me the creeps.....I was afraid of his visits.
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I am reading it fast, to get done with it, because it is so disturbing (it's a Book Club book, not my choice!). I will pay more attention to the language.
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