I just read this book this past week :)
It's really good. I stayed up late last night finishing it. I am trying to read three books before school starts so that I can display them in my classroom and rave to the kids about them. They get REALLY into it when I do my read alouds with Tale of Despereaux and Edward Tulane, so I thought I'd read a few books myself and talk them up. They will immediately go to the library and ask for them, mark my words!
Here are the other two books I plan on reading....for research purposes....
I have some parenting books on my list to read, but these are way more fun :) :) :) Kate DiCamillo is my favorite author (besides Rowling of course). I LOVE reading her books to my class!
Ellie and I have been reading a lot. We've gone to the library a few times this summer and she has read all of the books to me. One time at the library, I said, "Where are you going?" She said, "I'm getting a non-fiction book." Of course, silly me! This girl likes to read and so I am feeding that interest as much as I can! She reads to me and then I read a chapter a night from a book.
We read these two:
Jack loves reading this:
He has memorized it and says it with you as you read :)
Yay! Summer is for reading whatever you want. Kids need to learn reading is for fun before they get to those high school and college english classes where it is not fun.
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