It’s been a low-lit week. Seems like the only thing Junior Reader and I have looked at together has been the weekly reading book from school. Except. Except. This one is called Potatoes and Tomatoes. It’s not a satire on pronunciation on either sides of the Atlantic. It may not make it onto any best …
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The lure of the opening phrase
Monday again. No Lit Kid. Trust me when I say that my compulsion to talk about children’s books is not on the wane. It’s just been a very busy week and weekend. Dan led a trip to a certain brick-building type film yesterday, leaving me the house to myself for a few hours. What normally …
Friday phrases: Today I saw a little worm
Fairly recently, Junior Reader and I were working through the week’s reading book sent home from school. Now we’ve moved on a bit, it tends to be a collection of things in the book: sometimes non-fiction, sometimes longer stories. Sometimes, a poem or two. So I was very happy to see one I knew, and …
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Lit Kid: pirates ahoy!
If there’s one post I ought to be able to write in my sleep, it would be about pirates, and books to do with pirates. (After three days’ hard spring cleaning, I might just fall asleep while writing, so let’s keep it to an easy topic.) I like it when a child has a particular, …
Glossing over
It’s Monday, and it’s normally Lit Kid. It’ll come, folks, it will. Just not tonight. It’s easy to be high on children’s books, but tonight, it’s fumes from white spirits. I have been learning the slow and delicate art of gloss painting. I doubt anyone is going to take me on as a painter, but …