Children's Picture Books
The House of 12 Bunnies - Caroline Stills
My youngest children poured over this book. Sort of an "I Spy" for the littlest ones.
A Loon Alone- Pamela Love
A sweet story of a lost loon chick.
Red Wolf Country - Jonathan London
Lovely book about the red wolves and their world.
Mouse Was Mad - Linda Urban
Cute pictures and fun story about an angry mouse.
Chapter Books
My children loved following the adventures as these lively Dutch children searched for a wheel to place on their school roof to attract storks to their town.
Jared's Island - Marguerite de Angeli
Shipwreck, pirate treasure, camping with the Indians - this book has all the adventure a boy (or girl) can ask. I love the way De Angeli combines a good story with a historical time period and was surprised to find one of her books I had never read. We all enjoyed this one.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin
A book we enjoyed on audio from Books Should Be Free
The Bible in the Wall
A true story of a man who did everything possible to flee from the Word of God. Set in the Swiss Alps in the 1800s.
Adult Books
The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
A book about how a surgeon applied aviator's checklists to improve his practice? Occasionally I'll pick up a book completely out of my usual genre - like this one. And enjoy it! Though I suspect if I ever need surgery, I'll be one of those annoying patients who think they can tell the surgeon how it is done just because I read one book on the topic!
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I had forgotten about Margeurite de Angeli! I just reserved Jared's Island at our library - thanks for the tip. I saw others that we can read after that, too. Fun.
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