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bitterkarella · 1 year
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Midnight Pals: Poverty Porn
JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: did you hear? Rowling: people are ssssaying that I wassss the firssst author to write about poverty King: Poe: Koontz: Lovecraft: Barker: oh are they Poe: clive Barker: are they saying that? Poe: clive Barker:
Rowling: people are ssssaying that I’m the firsssst author to realisssstically deal with poverty in writing Barker: who exactly is saying this joanne Rowling: oh you know Rowling: ssssome guy online Barker: oh some guy huh Poe: clive Barker: the great literary thinker some guy huh
Rowling: if you think about it Rowling: hass there been an author before me who wrote about poverty? Rowling: I mean without making it look really cool and awesssome Rowling: the previoussss authorsss alwayssss made it sssseem like real fun Charles Dickens:
Rowling: well I meant the firsssst childrenssss author Roahl Dahl: Rowling: I meant the firsssst woman childrensss author Beverly Cleary: Rowling: LOOK why are all of you here anyway
Rowling: I’m jusssst ssssaying that other authorsss make poverty loo fun Rowling: whereasssss I wrote about it honesssstly Rowling: not assss a quaint affectation Rowling: but asssss a natural ssside effect of being Irish
Rowling: anyway the important thing issss Rowling: I wrote about how it ssssuckssss being poor Rowling: that makessss me a notable first assss a writer Rowling: therefore transssss people should all be in campsss Rowling: ipssso facto
Rowling: I don’t have time for thissss Rowling: I need to move my ssscottish castle before I’m overrum by the transss Rowling: ssscotland is no longer ssssafely transssphobic enough for my cassstle Rowling: why, a transss could point it out on the hissstoric registry at any moment!
Barker: hey maybe you should put it in wales Barker: haha Rowling: maybe I will Rowling: wait whatsss sso funny Barker: or Ireland Barker: haha
Rowling: ssso it sssseemsss the UK’s lesssser memberssss don’t want to do thissss genocide as badly? Rowling: no matter Rowling: we don’t need them Rowling: the purebloods of England will win thissss fight alone! Rowling: we’ll ssstation genital-fondling beefeaterssss at every border! Rowling: we’ll build a 4 foot fence around the whole of England if we have to! Rowling: Rule Brittannia!
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best-childhood-book · 6 months
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Round 2, Poll 5: The Earthsea Cycle vs Ramona
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carriagelamp · 3 months
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What are the Christmas holidays for if not for being cosy and snug and reading a book? It has been a very pleasant December for me, and I've really gotten to indulge my love of reading winter themed books in winter
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The Bellybuttons
A quebecois bande desinee I’ve heard about and decided to pick up the first book of — I read this one in English. It was pretty amusing! At times quite funny as it does a gag-a-page format pretty well, but also at times deeply frustrating since the series is predominantly about Karine, who is a sweet, somewhat awkward teenaged girl, and the rather nasty popular girls she’s “friends” with. Karine acts as a foil and a general punching bag for most of the book. It does make her standing up for herself at the end of the album deeply satisfying. A worthwhile read if you enjoyed Mean Girls and would like that in a comic format.
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Bookshops & Bonedust
A prequel to Legends & Lattes that I’ve been very eagerly anticipating! In this book Viv is just beginning her career as a mercenary but has been laidlow by a injury. Forced to stay behind in a seaside town while her leg heals, she gradually gets drawn into the lives of the various town residents, including a beleaguered ratkin who’s desperately trying to keep her little bookshop afloat. Add in a dash of baked goods and necromantic plots, and it’s a really fun read! If you haven’t read the original yet, I highly recommend both it and this one.
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A Christmas Story
I love this movie and only just realized it was originally based off a series of radio stories that were adapted into print. If you are unfamiliar with the Christmas film, it follows the Parker family through a series of mundane misadventures on the build up to Christmas, including Ralphie’s desperate need to get a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle for Christmas.
This book, A Christmas Story, collects a handful of stories from two different anthologies that were used when creating the iconic movie. It’s fun how many lines are word-for-word from the original stories; they’re all hilarious and the language is just fantastic. Hard to put down.
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Every Heart a Doorway
A fascinating short story about a boarding school for the “chosen ones” who have returned from whatever magical world drew them in and then spat them back out. It’s a school of children who have learnt to survive in strange worlds built around strange, incomprehensible rules and who must now learn to re-adapt to the mundane world. They are all desperate to get back, to find their own doorways, and struggle with being trapped back in a world that doesn’t understand them. Things only get worse when the murders start.
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Hogfather
One of my favourite Discworld novels. On the Discworld, it’s a boar-themed entity known as the Hogfather that travels around the world delivering presents to boys and girls on Hogwatchnight. Except this year something has happened. The Hogfather is nowhere to be found, and someone else has been forced to take his place. With Death now attempting to deliver holiday cheer, and his granddaughter reluctantly drawn into unravelling a plot on the Hogfather’s life, this is easily one of my favourite “Christmas” books to read. And the ending always hits me like a ton of bricks, it makes me really emotionally. Highly recommend the read, even if you’ve never touched a Discworld book before. As long as you like high fantasy and can suspend disbelief, it’s easy to jump into.
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
So, this book absolutely destroyed me. Would recommend. I love this author, and this novel did not disappoint. It’s about a hand-crafted, specially commissioned, porcelain rabbit doll named Edward Tulane. Edward Tulane, with his exquisite wardrobe and delicate features, is beautiful and precious and he knows it. He doesn’t care anything for the little girl who loves him and resents her family who patronizes him. Everything changes for Edward Tulane though when, during a sea voyage, he is thrown overboard and finds himself separated from his girl and lost to the black silence of the ocean floor…
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Moominland Midwinter
Magical and chilling, this book really understands and articulates the other side of the winter season. The longest nights of the year, the darkness, the cold, the way the entire world sleeps and changes and becomes strange.
Moomins always hibernate through the winter, but this year little Moomintroll wakes up early. He finds himself completely alone in the middle of winter while his family sleeps around him. He’s forced to venture forth and learn about this dark, strange season, to find the friends he can and come to terms with the harsh strangeness of winter while waiting for the sun to return.
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A Mouse Called Miika
A very middling book. There is a mouse who lives in the North Pole. He likes cheese. He has a very unpleasant friend. He gets magical powers of some sort or another. He tries to steal a very important cheese. I genuinely don’t remember the plot well enough to go in any more detail. If you’re desperate to read something Christmassy, it’s not bad, but I wouldn’t bother seeking it out.
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Beezus and Ramona // Ramona and her Mother
You know, I’ve never in my life read a Ramona book. I’ve read and enjoyed other Beverly Cleary books, but never the Ramona series. I ended up reading Ramona and her Mother first and afterwards I picked up Beezus and Ramona just to see how the series began. I can… see why it’s popular, especially for the time. It’s a fun, silly, slice-of-life series about the wacky hijinks of Ramona Quimby, a rambunctious kindergartener. I can really, genuinely say though that this is not a series made for me. Ramona and her Mother I found agonizingly dull, with only a few interesting moments interspersed. Beezus and Ramona was a bit more interesting, but they made Ramona so incredibly annoying that I could hardly get through it. Maybe part of the blame lies in me listening to an audiobook for that one and the narrator using the single most grating voice I have eve heard in my life, but my god it drove me nuts. 
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System Collapse
New Murderbot book! New Murderbot book!! Woohoo! If you haven’t read the Murderbot series, go start on All Systems Red and continue from there, you won’t regret it! The series follows a synthetic being known as a Security Unit — an artificial construct that isn’t meant to be self-aware or self-governing, except that they are. When Murderbot succeeds in hacking its governor module and gaining full control of itself, it briefly considers going on a murderous rampage… until it realizes it’s much more enjoyable to just download a lot of soap operas into its brain and get on with things. In this new book, Murderbot continues on a mission with ART’s crew and those from Preservation. Things are heating up as Barish-Estranza attempts to take control of the planet, new SecUnits have been deployed, and there may or may not be a rampant alien plague. Worse yet, something is wrong with Murderbot, related to [REDACTED]. If it can’t figure out how to fix what’s wrong soon, its humans may soon be in peril.
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Heaven Official's Blessing v5
I continue to read Heaven Official’s Blessing! I continue to love it! The desperate scramble towards Mount Tonglu has been a blast. I’m getting Very Concerned about what may or may not be the return of the White Calamity though… whatever is going on and whatever it is, everything seems like it’s heating up to some serious bad news in the next book.
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Twelve Doctors of Christmas
An alright anthology of Christmas-themed Doctor Who stories. If you want something Christmassy and you want Doctor Who, this delivers. It’s festive, light, and has a few pretty good stories in it. However I wouldn’t say it was my favourite Doctor Who short story anthology by a long shot. Time Lord Fairy Tales or 13 Doctors 13 Stories are both more impressive story collections imho
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marahuyomae · 10 months
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I would never let my childhood change, because these books would stay with me.
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the-mouse-joust · 10 months
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ROUND 3: COOLEST MICE ON THE BLOCK
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LEFT: Daroach from Kirby Squeak Squad Description: "A funny little thief :) He's got a cool cape and a top hat and an ice beam attack." He's the leader of the Squeaks, and if making friends is all it takes to find some treasure, he's happy to tag along with the Squeak Squad in tow!
RIGHT: Ralph S. Mouse from The Mouse and the Motorcycle Description: "he's got a MOTORCYCLE" "He rides a motorcycle. Vroom vroom. Also delivers aspirin."
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unfortunatetheorist · 5 months
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The R - Part 4:
Grand Finale: What does the R stand for?
It turns out, this is one of those rare instances where Lemony has given us the answer - on Kit's reading list, albeit indirectly in LSTUA:
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The top book, Beverly Cleary's "Ramona Quimby, Age 8", is a real book, which is part of a 'Ramona' series.
The first of that series is 'Beezus and Ramona'.
Beezus actually stands for BEATRICE, and so could refer to some things:
The R in Duchess R stands for Ramona
She and Beatrice were very good friends
Given the references, I find it likely. Plus, if the Poetry of E. A. Poe is CODED...
...who's to say the others aren't?
It could be a coded version of RQA8, which could refer to Duchess Ramona's childhood, possibly with Beatrice/as a volunteer, possibly not.
¬ Th3r3534rch1ngr4ph, Unfortunate Theorist/Snicketologist
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Anyone else here who read a LOT of Beverly Cleary growing up?
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bouncinghedgehog · 5 months
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"In 1955, Ramona Quimby, a near American cousin of Pippi Longstocking, tumbled into the picture, all scraped knees and exuberant doodles. She and her creator, author Beverly Cleary, united with Pippi and Lindgren in literary confederation, bright beacons for little girls who have been variously told they are too much: too loud or pesky or hyperactive. Upon a cursory read, it might be tempting to describe Ramona as mischievous, but Cleary herself has protested against this accusation, and with good reason. Ramona loves the world with ferocity; she does not so much want to disturb it as she yearns to discover, to turn it over, examine every piece and crook and marvel at why each creature, commodity, and substance exists the way it does. 'She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next,' explains Cleary in Ramona the Pest." Read more about this beloved Mighty Girl character at https://bit.ly/3GMW8yi
If you'd like to introduce your kids to the irrepressible Ramona Quimby, the Ramona series is now available in a colorful box set for ages 6 and and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/ramona-quimby-box-set
The series is also available in two box sets -- the first four books at https://www.amightygirl.com/the-ramona-collection-vol-1 and the second four books at https://www.amightygirl.com/the-ramona-collection-vol-2
For box sets of series starring similarly spirited Mighty Girl characters for ages 6 and up, we recommend the "Amelia Bedelia 10-Book Box Set" (https://www.amightygirl.com/amelia-bedelia-box-set), "Dory Fantasmagory" (https://www.amightygirl.com/dory-fantasmagory-outside-the-box-set), and the "Heidi Heckelbeck 10-Book Collection" (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-heidi-heckelbeck-ten-book-collection)
To introduce children to Beverly Cleary's extraordinary life story, we also recommend the picture book, "Just Like Beverly: A Biography of Beverly Cleary" for ages 5 to 9 at https://www.amightygirl.com/just-like-beverly
For adult fans of Beverly Cleary, we highly recommend her two delightful memoirs: "A Girl from Yamhill" (https://www.amightygirl.com/a-girl-from-yamhill) and "My Own Two Feet: A Memoir" (https://www.amightygirl.com/my-own-two-feet)
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stacksmaintenance · 5 months
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Then Ramona felt her mother's hand on her back. "Ramona," she said gently, "what are we going to do with you?" With red eyes, a swollen face, and a streaming nose, Ramona sat up and glared at her mother. "Love me!"
Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Brave
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redheadedbrunette · 1 year
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princesssarisa · 1 year
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I was just thinking back to the comment I've sometimes read that "only child writers never write believable sibling relationships."
So I'd like to ask anyone who has siblings and has read Beverly Cleary's classic Ramona Quimby books:
Is Beezus and Ramona's relationship believable? Because Beverly Cleary was an only child.
I grew up with the Ramona books and I always thought the two girls' complex relationship, which starts out as "Ramona is Beezus's biggest problem" but gradually improves as they both mature over the course of the series, felt convincing.
Of course Beverly Cleary had two sons, and she might have drawn inspiration from watching them interact. She also gave Beezus and Ramona strikingly different personalities, which would probably still clash and mesh in much the same way even if they were friends instead of sisters. They're a classic prim-and-proper/free-spirit, ISTJ/ENFP duo: like little girl versions of Bert and Ernie, who predate Bert and Ernie by 19 years.
I'm just wondering out of curiosity: are they convincing, or in some ways do they feel like the creation of an only child author?
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roses-red-and-pink · 8 months
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Flashback to grade 5 or 6 when one of our English assignments was to write a letter to our favourite author. Mine was LM Montgomery. And tbh I didn’t read a lot of books by alive authors back then (hadn’t read Harry Potter yet). So I told my teacher and she was like “uhhh you could write to the LM Montgomery foundation?? Or choose a different author.” So I chose Beverly Cleary because she was alive and I had read a couple of her books. Problem was, I did not really like her books. So sorry Beverly, my letter was a lie. You are not my fave author, but thanks for responding to my letter.
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best-childhood-book · 7 months
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Round 1, Poll 10: Ramona vs Dragonhaven
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kontextmaschine · 8 months
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I remember books from when I was a kid where the characters' schools just turned them loose for an hour at lunch to eat at home or a local place or something and that sounded totally foreign to me but when I came to Portland I found they still do that, but now that I think of it a lot of those books might have been Beverly Cleary's Portland-set stuff so I don't know if that's always just been a here thing or what.
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carriagelamp · 1 year
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Well, if nothing else I read a shocking number of B books this month. I felt very fortunate this month -- I've been listening to a lot of audiobooks lately because of general stress and a lack of free time, but I managed to settle into quite a few physical books over February. It's honestly been a bit of a relief to have the time and headspace to curl up with a book.
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A Boy Called Bat / Bat and the Waiting Game / Bat and the End of Everything
I read this trilogy because I had heard some pretty positive reviews for it. The story is about an autistic boy called Bixby Alexander Tam, nicknamed Bat. He has the nickname for a few reasons besides for the acronym — Bat feels it’s appropriate because he also: loves animals, has very sensitive hearing like a bat, and will flap his hands like wings when he’s excited. The story starts when his mom, a vet, brings home an orphaned skunk kit that needs caring for and Bat falls in love with it. The trilogy extends over the rest of Bat’s school year, a budding new friendship, and how he helps raise the kit and tries to convince his mom that he doesn’t need to be released into the wild but instead would make a perfect pet.
I felt… lukewarm to it, honestly. I think my problem is I went into it with the wrong expectations. The way it had been described to me, I thought it would be one of those more “artsy” ““highbrow”” children’s novels but it really reads more like a pretty standard fare Child Animal Story. Which is fine! A standard animal story is appealing to kids, and having some autistic rep in a basic book instead of exclusively in more artsy stuff is great. It was just a bit of a disappointment after I heard it so hyped.
It did have some interesting parallels/symbolism, but over all the plot was rather meandering without any real upticks, and the language was fairly plain and uninteresting. And the ending fell completely flat. It felt like the few themes the book was clinging were just completely dropped in the final yard. I would totally recommend them to an elementary kid that wants a cute animal/school story, but that’s about it. 
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Ballet Shoes
This book I had a great time with. I’m reading a completely different novel that referenced back to this classic children’s novel and I ended up needing to detour to read this first so I could get the references. I’m glad I did! Normally I’d be put off by the title/aesthetic, because I’ve never been a kid into “ballerina stories” but I ended up really loving it. It made me think of similar books from the earlier 20th century, like A Little Princess or The Secret Garden or Anne of Green Gables, all of which I love.
Ballet Shoes is about a trio of adopted sister: Pauline, Petrova and Posy. Their guardian does their best to make ends meet and ensure the girls get an education, but the household funds are gradually dwindling and they’re soon struggling. Luck strikes though when they decided to let out rooms of their home for borders, and one ended up suggesting all three girls join a local ballet school — there they can train in dance, but can also start earning money at the age of twelve if they get cast in productions. The girls take to this training with varying degrees of enthusiasm, each one being a very unique, enjoyable character, and the book follows the different misadventures they have as they grow and enter the entertainment industry and continue to fight to make ends meet.
Despite how heavy that might sound, it was ultimately quite a charming, feel-good novel. It was perfect for a cosy blanket and a cup of tea.
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Bedknob and Broomstick
I had watched the movie a number of times growing up but never once read the novel, so I finally remedied that. Did you realize that what we know as Bed-Knob and Broomstick is actually a compilation of two separate books, The Magic Bed-Knob and Bonfires and Broomsticks? I hadn’t! And I have to say, I think I enjoyed the second story more than the first.
For those who haven’t heard of the story at all, it’s about three children who are sent to the country to stay with their aunt, and during their summer they end up meeting a neighbour called Miss Price. Miss Price is a rather regular, proper young woman, with the added detail that she’s learning to become a witch through correspondence classes. When the children promise not to reveal her secret, Miss Price gifts them an enchanted bed-knob, one that will take them anywhere in place or time they would like to travel. The first story is about the places they adventure too. The second is some time later, when they are able to visit Miss Price once again, and are horrified to discover that she has given up witchcraft for good. The kids however are determined to use the bed-knob once more, this time to venture back into the past.
In all honesty, I was rather neutral to the book, especially given how racist the first half is. I was happy to have read the classic but I wouldn’t go out of my way to read it again.
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The Boy in the Dress
Now, caveat right at the top: this book isn’t explicitly queer. At no point does anyone come out as gay or trans. But I do consider it queer in that the entire narrative is an ongoing conversation about what the gender binary means, and how one’s own identity, passions, and presentation can challenge that, and how people respond to those challenges.
The story follows 12 year old Dennis who lives in a very ordinary, plain household with his older brother and father, who attends a very ordinary, plain school, in a very ordinary, plain town. He loves playing football (soccer), hanging out with his friend, and he also loves dresses. He loves how bright and colourful and joyful they can be, when his life feels very bland. Dennis struggles with figuring out how to explore the interest while contending with the other people in his life who clearly disapprove. 
It’s a really earnest, heartwarming story.
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Dogsbody
Ah, I love Diana Wynne Jones’ books, they’re always completely buckwild. This book was a ton of fun; as always with her books it really felt like I was reading something different and quirky and attention grabbing.
The main character of Dogsbody is Sirius — yes, the star. The story opens with him being put on trial, accused of killing another luminary and losing a powerful instrument called a Zoi. His sentence for this crime is to be stripped of his powers and cast down to earth, to spend one lifetime living in a humble, mortal form. If he can survive and find the Zoi within that lifetime, he will be welcomed back to the cosmos. 
Sirius is reborn a regular puppy, one with no memories of his previous life or powers or mission. The novel follows him gradually growing up under the care of a young girl and her cruel family as he attempts to regain his memories and figure out how to find his lost Zoi.
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Dragon Rider
I haven’t read Dragon Rider since I was a kid, but I realized they had done a film of it… and man, that adaptation was not great. I remembered the book being better so I had to investigate. And I was right, the book is a really cute, enjoyable adventure with some charming characters.
The adventure starts when the hidden valley that Firedrake lives in is threatened by humans. The dragons have lived in small, hidden pockets for years, and now that it seems that the constant tide of humanity is pushing towards them they have no idea what to do. Only Firedrake takes up the challenge of venturing out of the valley in the search of a legendary place called the Rim of Heaven where dragons allegedly live in safety. Along with his dear friend the brownie Sorrel, and a young human they run into, they must plot of course that will take them across the globe, while avoiding an ancient, fearsome, dragon-hunting monster which has been without its preferred prey for centuries.
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Grandpa’s Great Escape
I’ve been meaning to read David Walliams books for ages, ever since I saw them beginning to pop up in our local bookstore. I finally bought one on a whim, and wow, I was not disappointed. It reads exactly like a Roald Dahl novel, which is about the highest praise I can offer — I don’t think I’ve ever read anything that satisfies in the same way as Dahl before.
This novel follows Jack and his grandfather, a retired RAF pilot from WWII. His grandfather has become increasingly confused as the years progress, and often finds himself mixing up the present and his past glory days as a pilot; Jack is one of the few people who still finds it easy to talk to his grandfather because he is completely willing to meet him at his level, talk to him as if he really is still the Wing Commander. When his parents can no longer handle it though, they’re duped into send Jack’s grandpa to the wicked Twilight Towers. As the only one who can see how sinister the place really is, Jack is determined to save his grandfather.
It’s a truly hilarious story, since it’s written very much to read like a RAF pilot trying to escape from a Nazi concentration camp… except set in a nursing home! I can’t recommend this book enough, between the silly, heartfelt story, the occasional tragedy, and the fun illustrations, it’s such an addictive read.
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I Think Our Son Is Gay v3
I read the first book of this series last month (whoops, I skipped 2… my library just happened to have the third in) and decided to try another. It’s a cute little series about a teenage boy experiencing his first crush. Though he hasn’t come out to his family yet, he’s a boy who seems incapable of lying, who has a face that gives him away easily, so his mother (the main POV character) is quite certain he’s gay and that he has a crush on his best friend. She is determined to be quietly supportive of her son until he’s ready to come out. The series is predominantly sweet and supportive little episodic stories, but it also layers in some of the everyday homophobia and microaggressions a gay teenager might experience in a homophobic society, even when people around him don’t know he’s gay. It’s a very worthwhile read.
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Socks
This was a book that I read over and over in grade 2 and I had forgotten its name until just recently. I never read many Beverly Clearly books as a kid, since I preferred genre fiction over stories based around the real world / school, but I loved the silly story told from the pet cat's point of view.
The story is about Socks and the perfect family he’s adopted into… perfect until a new baby comes around and suddenly Socks is competing for attention.
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The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit/ Hare Joins the Home Guard
I mentioned in my review about Ballet Shoes that I read it because another novel I’m reading referenced it: same for this book! The Squirrel, the Hare, and the Little Grey Rabbit is one of the picture books the main character of the other book often alludes to so I decided I needed to read it as well. This book was a cute, standard fare little picture book from that era. It’s about the very gentle, virtuous Grey Rabbit, and her rather bossier, lazier housemates, the Hare and the Squirrel. It was cute and the art was lovely, though I can’t say much beyond that.
I also read Hare Joins the Home Guard mostly because I was stunned and baffled by a Cute Animal Story explicitly jumping into WWII… though I suppose it makes sense! It came out in 1942 and it’s a pretty gentle way of holding a mirror up to some of the things children were certainly hearing about and experiencing in their real lives. In this, the various animals join the “home guard” in different roles (such as taking up arms, becoming a Red Cross nurse, digging shelters to protect children, or knitting for the “troops”) in order to fight off invading weasels. I would say it was also fairly “basic” were it not for the fact that it was hilarious to see this next to titles like Little Grey Rabbit Makes Lace. How often do you see Cute Lil Animals preparing gas masks for their chemical warfare plans?
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the-mouse-joust · 11 months
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ROUND 2 SIDE A: HANGING OUT WITH HUMANS
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LEFT: Stuart Little from Stuart Little Description: "he's technically a boy who looks like a mouse and that is terrifying." "He walks and talks like a man." "He is a mouse adopted by a human family as their second child."
RIGHT: Ralph S. Mouse from The Mouse and the Motorcycle Description: "he's got a MOTORCYCLE" "He rides a motorcycle. Vroom vroom. Also delivers aspirin."
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