A real bookworm
We stopped by Green Apple Books this weekend, and scored a bunch of books: Edward Eager, E. Nesbit, Roald Dahl, Ursula Le Guin, and this copy of The Phantom Tollbooth which came with its own wormhole. It's the coolest thing: If you flip it really fast, like you would a flipbook, the hole gets larger then collapses into itself, till it vanishes altogether.
I have my good friend, Laura Miller, to thank for these books: She has a wonderful reading list on her website. Hannah is also getting a couple of books by Joan Aiken for Christmas: The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories and Necklace of Raindrops (she asked for books! as presents). Her teacher introduced them to Roald Dahl and now we're both hopeless addicts of his writing. I asked her why she liked him so much, as opposed to, say, the Magic Treehouse series, and she said that in the latter, the adventures were the size of a window (cupping her hands to illustrate) as compared to Dahl's books, where they were as huge as both her arms flung wide.
Have a wonderful holiday, and happy reading.
December 23, 2008
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