This is a wonderfully inspiring book for any family & I highly recomend it.

Greg, a self-confessed “indoor person,” is living out his ultimate summer fantasy: no responsibilities and no rules. But Greg’s mom has a different vision for an ideal summer…one packed with outdoor activities and “family togetherness.”

Whose vision will win out? Or will a new addition to the Heffley family change everything?

The 4th in the Wimpy kid series this book is just as good as the rest! Kinney really knows how to keep kids engaged. A great read for your 7-10 year old boys or a quick flip for your young at heart boys too.

When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both the golden prince and her growing role as an unofficial queen. However, she soon realizes just how much she is a pawn in her family’s ambitious plots when the king’s interest begins to wane and she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her powerfully ambitious sister, Anne Boleyn. As Mary watches Anne manipulate her rise to the throne, Mary knows that she must defy her family and her king and take her fate into her own hands.

A rich and compelling tale of love, ambition, lust, and intrigue, The Other Boleyn Girl introduces a woman of extraordinary determination and desire who lived at the very center of the most exciting, hard, and glamorous court in Europe and survived by following her own heart.

I would recommend this book, but caution if you are not ready to explore the reality of beheading & cruelty during this period maybe this is not the book for you, as these points of the story stuck with me as much as the compelling history of this family.

At first I was so elated to take my kids to see this movie made from a family favorite. However over a period of days I became anxious about how the movie would be. Would it capture the fun & frolic that the original author & illustrator did so well in the book? Would this movie bring a classic to a new generation and inspire them to crack the binding on the original? Or would the movie replace the book & the love of this treasure be lost forever?

I am still planning on taking my boys, but only to enhance our wild things experience and in no way take anything away from the literature. I guess in the end the responsibility lies on the individual & how much they want out of something.

I am hoping that this will be all we dreamed of in a movie, but if not I guess we can always go home & snuggle down with the book!

The movie is due out on October 16th in our area! I am planning on seeing it as stated & hope you will let me know what you think as well!

As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object — artfully encoded with five symbols — is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient invitation . . . one meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of esoteric wisdom.

When Langdon’s beloved mentor, Peter Solomon — a prominent Mason and philanthropist — is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes his only hope of saving Peter is to accept this mystical invitation and follow wherever it leads him. Langdon is instantly plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and never-before-seen locations — all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth.

As the world discovered in The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, Dan Brown’s novels are brilliant tapestries of veiled histories, arcane symbols, and enigmatic codes. In this new novel, he again challenges readers with an intelligent, lightning-paced story that offers surprises at every turn. The Lost Symbol is exactly what Brown’s fans have been waiting for . . . his most thrilling novel yet.

To see the complete list in age order visithttp://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/childrensnotable/notablechibooks/index.cfm

Several of these are on my check out list at the library & I have always had good luck with books that have made it on to this list.  It is a wonderful tool in searching out great children’s authors for that special bed time read!

Reading to our kids is one of the most important things we can do as parents, so before you curl up with my latest must read for you. Snuggle down with one of these with your little reader. You can keep the spirit of the reader alive in your little one so they can enjoy literature as much as you do!

Ready happy, read often, & read this blog again!

Christine

A timeless classic. -This book transcends time as rambunctious little boys will always get sent to their rooms without dinner & Moms will always bring it to them after they have sat & thought long enough.

This got me thinking. What would my list look like? What would your list look like? The great thing about theses list is that by in large they are compiled based on opinions. As the saying goes we all have them!

So pick your list & share it with me! Let’s compare, I am going to get to work on mine right now.

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Enjoy