What We're Reading :: October

Me:

Lavin's "Lilacs" and "The Long Ago" (short stories for this month's book club selection)

Lowry's Son (the last of The Giver quartet)

Karen Glass' Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition (much anticipated--and it's living up to the hype so far!)

Charlotte Mason's Volume 6 (still--and will be all year, probably)

Vincent, age 8:

d'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths (a reread from his "quiet time" shelf)

Edward Eager's Seven-Day Magic (the last of the Half-Magic series)
Windeatt's Patron Saint of First Communicants: Blessed Imelda (a reread from our saints shelf)

Gianna, age 8:

Brian Jacques' The Sable Quean (the last of the Redwall series)

Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown (I finally scored a copy for our home library and she happily pounced on it)

Saints for Young People for Every Day of the Year, volumes 1 and 2 (binge-reading this on Sundays)

Cate, age 5:

a few rhymes from Cooper Edens' The Glorious Mother Goose

To the Big Kids:

MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind and Kingsley's Water Babies (we'll be reading these two AO Y3 "free reads" slowly over the course of the whole school year)

Wilder's By the Shores of Silver Lake (just a couple chapters left)

Burnett's A Little Princess (on audio, in the car--delightful!)

To the Kindergartener:

Hutchinson and Lenski's Chimney Corner Stories: Tales for Little Children (a new find for us, and so charming)

Kindergarten Gems (just a story here and there)

Fr. Lord's The Rosary: Roses of Prayer for the Queen of Heaven (we have the miniature version and it's a favorite)

To the Littles:

Rinker and Lichtenheld's Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site (4yo Xavier's pick)

the Hurds' The Merry Little Chase (3yo Bridget's pick)

Jane Dyer's Animal Crackers (2yo Clara's pick)

And more used-book finds:

So all of these arrived at my house on the same day last week.  

I came home from an evening of book-shopping at the thrift store and coffee with a friend (who gifted me a book) to find that a box (okay, fine, two giant boxes!) had arrived on the doorstep from a favorite online seller while I was out.  Yup, that's a lot of books.  But one of my very favorite children's series in beautiful hardbacks?  And vintage encyclopedias for my non-fiction loving oldest son?  I mean, really: what's a mom to do?  

It wouldn't have been so bad except that all these had arrived just a few days prior:

Needless to say, I put together a new bookshelf on Saturday.

Any favorite finds lately, friends?  I know I'm not the only one out there book hunting!