Comments on: Wolves At My Gate

By: Kim Werker

Kim Werker — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:49:16 +0000

Best blog tie-in ever, Kristi. :)

By: kristi

kristi — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:42:27 +0000

Favorite reads around here: The seven-year old likes Encyclopedia Brown books, Shel Silverstein and Roald Dahl for read-alouds. My ten-year old is the real reader, though. Her first real book love was the Little House series. She also likes contemporary children's author, Andrew Clements. Currently she's re-reading the Harry Potters. She refuses to read Wrinkle in Time (even though I told her she'd like it and that I myself refused to read it until I found a hardback copy in the school library because I didn't like the cover on the paperback. [True! isn't there a saying about that?] Phantom Tollbooth is a great favorite around here too. As an added bit of blog tie-in, The ten-year old is the one wearing the Float Away scarf on the PDF. I think she must have been pretty freshly turned 9 in that photo. I'll look for Julie of the Wolves.

By: kpwerker

kpwerker — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:49:16 +0000

Best blog tie-in ever, Kristi. :)

By: kristi

kristi — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:42:27 +0000

By: kpwerker

kpwerker — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:28:58 +0000

When I was in grade 4, my teacher had us on a pretty ambitious reading
regimen. It might have been three books a month. Or one book a month. I
can't remember. But I do remember hating reading before that, and loving
reading by the end. It was Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator that did it
for me. (Somehow I managed to read a biography of Donna Summer that year. I
was totally bored by the entire book. Why would I have chosen such a thing?)

By: kpwerker

kpwerker — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:52:32 +0000

When I was in grade 4, my teacher had us on a pretty ambitious reading regimen. It might have been three books a month. Or one book a month. I can't remember. But I do remember hating reading before that, and loving reading by the end. It was Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator that did it for me. (Somehow I managed to read a biography of Donna Summer that year. I was totally bored by the entire book. Why would I have chosen such a thing?)

By: kpwerker

kpwerker — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:51:16 +0000

You know, I've never read Anne of Green Gables. I need to remedy that.

By: marikka

marikka — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:41:58 +0000

I'm going to confess without shame (because I used to feel shame at this confession) that I was thoroughly uninterested in books when I was between the picture book stage and the age of 12 (when I discovered the new Nancy Drew books, and every attempt at the old Nancy Drews was pathetic). I think nine-year-old me was enthralled with My Little Ponies and the Barbie motorhome we got at a garage sale. Plus, my research reveals that I was also likely about to watch The Princess Bride, Harry and the Hendersons, Mannequin, and Labyrinth on video, and Babette's Feast was about to win an Academy Award for best foreign film, so my movie obsession and moderate Danish pride was about to emerge. Aside from Mannequin, I'm not ashamed of that movie obsession.

By: Amy J.

Amy J. — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:24:13 +0000

Duuuude, I LOVED that book! I'd definitely have to say around nine I was enthralled w/the Madeline L'Engle books (Wrinkle in Time, etc., Austin family series, other books about the O'Keefe's) and anything by L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon). I can't wait for my girls to read these too!

By: Megan

Megan — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:41:49 +0000

I loved Island of the Blue Dolphins, about the girl whose village left her all alone for a year and she had to survive by herself. Parts of that story found its way into most of the imagination-games my sister and I created long after I read the last page.