after much reading of reviews and gleaning suggestions from family andirons...we have our reading list!! woo hoo!!
August - The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by dorothy and thomas hoobler (this will correspond to our history..nothing about an actual ghost but about japan)
September - The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden (ends in September with our chirping crickets)
October - Cecile Gates of Gold by Mary Casanova (corresponds to history and about french royalty)
November - Laddie A True Blue Story by Gene Stratton-Porter (bought this years ago and knew i wanted to read it to the kids....about family, farm and education in a beautiful story)
December - Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (short and dreamy...good for December =))
January - Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (harkening to our collective love of pioneering)
February- The Old Man and the Boy by Robert Ruark (fishing, hunting...but about the relationship between a boy and his grandfather....)
March - Watership Down by Richard Adams (about rabbits...about WW2 ha! listened as a child and LOVED it)
April - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo (esme was given this by her grammy for Christmas....about the meaning of love...)
