{"id":577,"date":"2011-08-02T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/tuesday-august-2-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-08-02T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T12:39:00","slug":"tuesday-august-2-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michellebeachy.com\/blog\/tuesday-august-2-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday August 2, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam has always loved books. Now that he can read, that statement has reached superlative levels! If it’s quiet around here, one of two things is happening. Adam is sleeping or engrossed in a book. <\/span>

At first, he was reading significant chapter books. Then he was diagnosed with lymes and after that week of really not feeling well, he reverted to shorter books or books with easier sentence structure. He also still loves a great picture book. It feels as though it has gotten somewhat easier to scope out the library for books he likes, but I feel so ignorant about children’s books. I suspect there are hundreds of great children’s classics I know nothing about. I wish for a great list of books to take with me on my search at the library.<\/span>

Adam loves non-fiction. He loves books about space and the environment and history. Actually he likes most any story as long as it’s fairly realistic. His most common question about a book … “Mommy, is this true?”<\/span>

Here are a few of our recent favorites.<\/span>

\"July<\/a>
Lovely story about the locusts.<\/span>

\"July<\/a>
I love this book so much! It has the sweetest wording and pictures about life in coal mining days.<\/span>

\"July<\/a>
And this book is a hands down winner. Gorgeous pictures. Powerful words. I could have read it over and over again. Well, actually I did. I read it. Explained the meaning to the boys. And read it again. And again because they both liked it so much. Three times in a row. I love books like this because they are so much fun to read but they also teach in two ways. They teach about something that happened. They teach about life. They teach children how to search for meaning beyond the obvious in literature. There should be thousands of children’s books that do all three of those things.<\/span>

Adam also likes The Boxcar Children<\/span> and Happy Little Family<\/span> (by Rebecca Caudill). Other great books we checked out last time included, An angel for Solomon Singer<\/span>, Peacebound Trains<\/span>, and The Relatives Came<\/span>.<\/span>

I’m currently reading <\/span>Blue Christmas<\/a> by Katrina Hoover and on her book’s facebook page she linked <\/span>this list<\/a> of great children’s reads. I was thrilled! We’ve only read about a quarter of them and I can hardly wait to check out more of them.<\/span>

My sister in law emailed me Faith Builder’s list of recommended reading for children which looks like this:<\/span>

\"FB<\/a>

And now it’s your turn. What are your children’s favorites?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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