#Mrs. penderwick

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood book #poll #preliminary round #julie of the wolves #protector of the small #nevermoor #the penderwicks #secret series #mr lemoncello's library #the dark is rising #pendragon #emily

[izzielizzie]

lydia being the only penderwick mrs tifton can stand will never not be funny to me

#truly the only acceptable part of at last #i know that the only reason lydia doesn't see mrs tifton as scary is because she grew up during a time where jeffrey had alec and was grown #enough to not have to worry about his mother derailing his life so there's no reason to be afraid of her #and the only reason mrs tifton isn't bothered by lydia is because lydia is far too young to marry jeffrey #but i just think it's really funny #and kind of sweet? idk they have a dynamic i'd love to explore more #lydia penderwick #mrs. tifton #the penderwicks

[dumbass-duo-showdown]

BEST DAD BATTLE: BAPELSIN BRACKET

ROUND 1 GROUP 2 PART 1

#dad council supporting other polls #tumblr tournament #tumblr bracket #tumblr poll #fandom bracket #fandom poll #alvin and the chipmunks #dave seville #the penderwicks #Mr Penderwick #Martin Penderwick

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

i have such a vivid mental image of skye and jane showing up to the geigers’ house at the crack of dawn to watch the world cup with nick and tommy

#mr and mrs geiger get woken up by ‘GOOOAAAL!!!!’ #my words #the penderwicks #skye penderwick #jane penderwick

[bugmancatchers]

penderwicks sexuality head cannons

Rosalind- pan

Tommy- supportive straight boy

Skye- demiromantic bi ace (elaboration on a different post)

Jeffery- BI BI BI BI BI BI

jane- jane is a demisexual lesbian… fight me

Batty- aroace

Ben- is straight but everyone thinks he is gay (or maybe he doesn’t know it yet hmm) 

Lydia- I have no idea man

Mr penderwick- identifies as Queer once he learnt what the term meant after one of his daughters came out

Iantha- is also queer as hell (astrophysics??? Come on man)

#the penderwicks #rosalind penderwick #Tommy geiger #skye penderwick #Jefferey the penderwicks #Jefferey penderwick #Jane penderwick #batty penderwick #ben penderwick #Lydia penderwick #mr penderwick

[hanchewie]

Hmm... thinking about Jewish Penderwicks.

Specifically thinking about Martin (who is from a family of secular Jews) doing his best after Elizabeth’s death to recreate the traditions his wife brought to their home. She had a beautiful voice, and she laughed while she sang, and Martin feels terribly inadequate as he stumbles through a transliterated siddur in the weeks after her death. He wishes desperately that he had spent time learning this language, his children’s language, instead of Latin. But the truth is, none of this feels the same without Lizzy. It’s not just the Hebrew; it’s the fact that Martin feels like he can never capture his wife’s joy and passion for these traditions. He was never terribly religious, but he was in love with Elizabeth and the way she joyfully and effortlessly built their Jewish home. 

He sits the girls down one day and explains that he doesn’t know as much about these things as Mommy did. Looks each of them in the eye (even baby Batty, who is lying half on top of Hound and babbling nonsensically), and asks if they would like to learn together. Tells them honestly (because Martin has always believed in being honest with his children) that the songs and the candles and the holidays were very important to their mother. Tells them also that his family never did any of these things, and he and Aunt Claire still love each other very much. He tells them that he’ll learn with them, if they wish, because he loves them very much. But he’ll love them just as much if they don’t want to learn, or if it makes them too sad to think about Mommy singing those songs. He tells them they can think about it and decide when they’re ready.

He thinks Rosalind is the most like Elizabeth. She asks to go to synagogue most weeks, carefully sounds out Hebrew letters at their kitchen table, sings the prayers with a voice warm as honey. Batty goes wherever Rosalind does, of course, and she soaks up Rosalind’s blessings like a lullaby. Jane, Martin thinks, is most like him: in love with the stories and culture, smiling and singling loudly, lai, lai, lai, because she doesn’t know the words but is moved by the rhythm—but not so fussed with all the rituals. Skye is a bit of an enigma: she seems to have entirely replaced Judaism with math equations and soccer drills... until Martin comes home one day to find her sprawled on the floor, one of his old yarmulkes on her head, poring over a copy of the Tanakh and scrawling notes in the margins.

And for the first time in a long time, he thinks of his Hebrew name: Menachem. Comfort. Martin isn’t a rabbi, is better suited to the world of science than theology. But he comforts his children, and he is comforted by them in turn. He marvels at the truth of his name, and the wisdom of this ancient language that lays bare what he knows in his heart. 

Maybe he’ll learn some Hebrew, after all. 

#the penderwicks #martin penderwick #jewish penderwicks #the penderwicks are jewish because i say so. hope this helps <3 #anyways i have the /strongest/ mental image of skye on the floor #oversized kippah on her head #muttering quietly to herself as she writes sarcastic comments in the margins of mr penderwick's fancy tanakh #also: rosy absolutely sings hashkiveinu to batty every night before bed #batty doesn't 'officially' get into music until much later-- but she's had rosy's music in her ears since before she could speak

[crying-in-converse]

if you are a fan of the penderwicks follow @bugmancatchers !!!

its an active blog that is trying to keep the penderwick fandom on Tumblr alive !!!!

#the penderwicks #skye penderwick #rosalind penderwick #Jane penderwick #batty penderwick #jeffery the penderwicks #jeffery penderwick #Tommy geiger #nick geiger #mr penderwick #penderwicks #the penderwicks on gardam street #the penderwicks in spring time #noromo35 talks

[worst-mother-throwdown]

BRACKET 1

Round 1

Propaganda under the cut, but feel free to add yours in the reblogs

Bell-mére propaganda

Mrs. Tifton propaganda

#worst fictional mother throwdown #worst mother throwdown #one piece #the penderwicks #no trigger warnings here this time wow

[runawaymarbles]

Top 5… fonts, lesser-known childhood books, weird rabbit habits

Fonts:

Bilingual Serif & Alternates (used here without the alternates)

Quaker Ladies (used here)

Indira K (used here, and on the Renegade Bindery logo)

Sukhumala (used here)

Raven Inline (used here)

Books:

1. Walter the Baker - really made me appreciate a good pretzel

2. Ozma of Oz- best Oz book, hands down

3. Mrs. Coverlett's Magicians - it's batshit, best christmas story ever

4. The Penderwicks - it's cute idk

5. Everything on a Waffle - almost made me get interested in cooking

Rabbit habits:

1. Eating all the bark off apple branches. They go nuts for apple branches.

2. Pivoting midair (bunny ballet)

3. Eating hay from outside the hutch or from the top of the hay hopper instead of the bottom where it's easiest to access

4. We used to have a bunny who liked to hop into a box and then push it around the kitchen from the inside. He learned to steer it when he bumped into things, it was amazing

5. Sitting in front of the TV so they can be sure everyone is looking at them

#sorry this took a minute i had to go to my computer to confirm some of the fonts #ask meme #top 5 anything #op #fonts #bunnies

[storybook-souls]

"Book Worm" asks: 43 & 44?

thanks patch :D

43. Title of a book you own that's in the worst physical condition you have. Explain what happened to it. Post a picture if you want.

aslkdf i think it's this one, Freddy Plays Football by Walter R. Brooks. the Freddy books are a series about talking animals from like the 1920s-1950s that i was obsessed with as a kid mostly bc my library happened to have a ton of them. i don't own very many but one is this paperback that must have gotten SOAKED at some point--I don't remember how, but the entire thing is waterlogged. but it's dry now! and readable! and these books are a little hard to find and i'm sentimental about it so i'm not getting rid of it

44. The book(s) whose stories have become part of your very makeup.

man there's so many. the aforementioned Freddy series. Warrior Cats. The Boxcar Children, especially the first three books. Lord of the Rings and Narnia are both deeply in there. when i re-read Percy Jackson recently i was startled by how many times i was like "oh so THAT'S where i first encountered this trope." The Hunger Games series. The Mysterious Benedict Society. Ella Enchanted. A Little Princess. the Rowan Hood series. The Enchanted Forest Chronicles. The Penderwicks. From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler. The Westing Game. a lot of Eva Ibbotson's books, but especially The Island of the Aunts and The Star of Kazan. a lot of Andrew Clements' books, but especially No Talking and The School Story. i could keep going and i'm also sure there's some important ones i'm forgetting bc they're not on my shelves.

send me book asks to answer!!

#the thing is that not having a ton of time to read for fun in late high school and in college and then being out of the habit for a couple #years after college makes it feel weird to include anything i read SINCE then in question 44 #like. i JUST read those #but i think the raven cycle and the locked tomb maybe do both deserve to be in that category #it's also interesting that much of the way i define that category is like 'what influenced my current tastes in fiction #and my writing style' #mostly just bc i think that's much easier to define and come up with than 'your very makeup'. man i dunno all those books i listed and #also none of them #ask game

[flickeringflame216]

For the book ask: whimsical and/or purple!

Well, this is long-overdue...but thank you for the ask!

Whimsical and Purple: The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop

Spoilers for anyone who hasn't read it!

Whimsical makes me think of books I read in later elementary and early middle school (which to be clear has only positive connotations, those were some of my BEST reading years). Books like Mr. Popper's Penguins, The Phantom Tolbooth, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, Charlotte's Web, The Penderwicks, The Saturdays, and so many others. The Castle in the Attic certainly fits the vibe! A toy castle that comes to life (reminding me of the Indian in the Cupboard)! A kind nanny! A brave knight, and an evil magician, and a typical hero's journey narrative--this is the stuff of whimsy.

But look deeper, beyond the "children's book" label. The Castle in the Attic is primarily a story about courage. William, our ten-year-old hero, is a boy steeped from the beginning in love of faerie. He is curious and talented but a bit of a misfit, and desperately afraid of letting go. We see him grow to care more for others outside himself, we see him break through self-doubt and internalize Mrs. Philips words about him at the end: "You were always strong enough. You just didn't believe it." He has to fix the mistakes he makes, he has to ask forgiveness and make things right. And he has to save the kingdom. And we feel the burden with him, and we are rooting for him the whole way. We feel the promise as he leaves the magic world and the friends he has made there, "I will not forget you." We see him, most of all, face fear and uncertainty head-on and WIN. And that is why I love this book, and that is what all my favorite stories have in common, because that message is so deeply resonant and personal to my life. Yes, this is a story written for 5th graders. So what? In flipping through it to answer this ask, I see why memory so fondly holds this book in its hands. William is us--curious, talented, a bit of a misfit, and deeply afraid.

Purple--magic, fantasy, enchantment, imagination. Memory. And growth, leadership, responsibility. Courage. William's story shimmers with them all, and with them shines the truth "a truly courageous person is the one who must first conquer fear within himself."

#thanks so much for the ask Riley! #I'm sorry it took so everlastingly long to do.

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood book #poll #the penderwicks #the harper hall of pern #secret series #mr lemoncello's library #the dark is rising #pendragon #good night mr tom #emily #savvy #the last apprentice

[tablevivant]

Mr. Penderwick would NOT be dating Marianne Dashwood what? sir you are in love with Ms. Dashwood not Ms. Dashwood

#the penderwicks #the penderwicks on gardam street

[dumbass-duo-showdown]

BEST DAD BATTLE: DAD MANSION BREAK IN/SECOND CHANCE

ROUND 2 SHAVEDOWN

#dad mansion break in #best dad battle #tumblr tournament #tumblr bracket #tumblr poll #fandom bracket #fandom poll #Kaname date #ai the somnium files #mr carrisford #a little princess #Martin penderwick #the penderwicks #buddy daddies

[a-hundred-jewels]

as I suggested a few days ago on one of your Penderwicks posts, writing about the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde play would just be *chef's kiss*

100% on my to-write list omg

#The penderwicks #talk to the dirt #booitsdisastral

[bugmancatchers]

Skye Penderwick is bi, here’s why

I have seen a lot of people on here saying that Skye was very obviously a lesbian. But in my opinion, Skye was most definitely queer. And on top of that, most definitely sapphic. But instead of just headcannoning every tom-boy character as a lesbian. I feel it is more fair to look at all the possible sexualities first.

I mean, if we’re talking about stereotypes I feel Skye fits in the bi category pretty well. In the books she is most often described wearing jeans, who says they aren’t cuffed? And math? astronomy? Screams bi to me.

But really, I do ship Skye and Jeffrey, and it’s because I felt their relationship had such a good build up. And most people would say that the romantic interest was one sided. In my opinion it was obviously not, there was clear evidence in the book that Skye cared about Jeffrey in a way that was way more deep than any of her other siblings, and all the other characters knew it (ahem, Jane letting Skye visit Jeffery first? Skye opening up to only Jeffery about her feelings/responsibilities? And many more instances)!

But, I do feel Skye would have a preference in girls, therefore this could add to the reason she was angry at herself and also continued to reject Jeffrey’s advances.

In my opinion Skye is probably also Demi-romantic. And a lot of times it’s really hard for demi people to admit they are in love, because a lot of the time they already have a great connection with this person, that they don’t want to ruin. The first time Skye rejects Jeffrey to his face (In Spring, hallway argument) she says she can’t be with him because she is scared of messing up, and ultimately hurting him.

I related to Skye so much as a kid, and still do. Yes, I legitimately cried while reading the last book, just thinking over and over again, this isn’t her! Skye wouldn’t do that! And I swear I am not projecting my sexuality on to her, but as a Demi-romantic bi I feel even more of my experiences and feelings being unintentionally, but very obviously represented in the book.

And, let me just say, Jeffrey is 100% bi as well. And who doesn’t love a bisexual power couple???

#skye penderwick #biseuxal #demiromantic #queer pride #sapphic #rosalind penderwick #jane penderwick #batty penderwick #lydia penderwick #mr penderwick #jefferey penderwick #ben penderwick #jefferey the penderwicks