Showing posts with label falling in. Show all posts
Showing posts with label falling in. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

'Falling In' Contest

Thank you so very much to all of you who took the time to read our first Mother/Daughter MG book review last week. Jessica is so very excited and can't wait to do the next which, by the way, will be FANG the newest Maximum Ride book by James Patterson.
The Falling In contest winner has been notified by email.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Falling In by Frances O'Roark Dowell

(This book was given to us, for review, by Simon & Schuster.)

Description:

Middle-schooler Isabelle Bean follows a mouse's squeak into a closet and falls into a parallel universe where the children believe she is the witch they have feared for years finally come to devour them.

Info:
Middle Grade, Fantasy
Published by Simon & Schuster
In Stores Now

Review (Note this is a discussion we had about the book):
Hey Jess, thanks for doing this with me. I think it’s great when Moms or Dads read with their kids. Let’s tell everyone how we did this.
I think it’s great too when parents spend bonding time with their kids, I was excited to read this with you. We each got a copy of this and read it, although….you took a very long time reading it.

Yeah, well sorry about that, I’ve been pretty busy the last few weeks lol
Uhhhh huhhhhh, ok.

Hey it’s not fair, you get to read at school and after homework and I have to work you know :-) Let’s talk a little about the story. What did you think about it?
I thought it was a really good book, once I started reading it I couldn’t stop reading it. What did you think of it?

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Mother Daughter Fun!!

Let's start by ignoring the fact that I did the worst really quick cut and paste on this picture, don't judge me.

My almost 10 year old daughter is a voracious reader, reads just about every spare minute of every day. Some days when she has trouble getting up for school I sneak into her room and find a flashlight and book stowed away under her pillow from the night before. She frequently asks if she can read what I am reading. Now obviously that's not going to happen, some of the books just have way too much mature content. Let's be honest, I really don't want to answer some of the questions they might bring about :-) Sooo I thought maybe she and I could read some Middle Grade together. I asked her if she'd like to read some of the same books and blog about them. Guess what? She sure does!

The first book we are reading is called Falling In by Frances O'Roark Dowell (we received our copies from Simon & Schuster, for review).


Watch for our review to come in the next few days, and maybe we'll even give a copy away to celebrate our first review together.