What We're Reading :: August

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Me

Berry's Jayber Crow (on my list since reading Hannah Coulter last year)

C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters (in bits here and there)

short stories from Flannery O'Connor (for our local book club)

Charlotte Mason's Volume 6 and Susan Schaeffer Macaulay's For the Children's Sake (for our CM study group using Brandy's Start Here)

To the Big Kids

Trevor's Sun Slower, Sun Faster (finishing up from summer during Morning Basket time)

Burnett's The Secret Garden (on audio)

Speare's The Sign of the Beaver (our new read-aloud--I remember reading this one as a kid)

Vincent, age 9

Anne Malcolmson and Virginia Lee Burton's The Song of Robin Hood (a much-loved gift from Grandma)

Selden's The Cricket in Times Square series (many many times over!)

Ince's St. Thomas More of London (a re-read of one of our scheduled saints' lives for Year 3)

Gianna, age 8

Cooper Edens' Princess Stories (she has scheduled this one out for herself, a chapter a week--ha!)

Margery Sharp's The Rescuers (from the AO Year 4 extra free reads list)

Streatfeild's Theater Shoes (also from the AO list, and just finished!)

To the Middles (Cate, age 6, and Xavier, age 5)

Neumann Press' Saints for Boys

AA Milne's House on Pooh Corner

McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings and One Morning in Maine

For this week's reading lessons: Stevenson's "At the Sea Side" (for Cate) and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" (for Xave)

On audio: Little House on the Prairie read by Cherry Jones

To the Littles

Cooper Eden's Glorious Mother Goose (3yo Bridget's current favorite--and one of mine too!)

The Farm Book (2yo Clara's current favorite--fyi, it looks like the barn-shaped version is no longer in print, and that is the real charm of this book. so sad!)

From the thrift store and in the mailbox

I picked up the top half of this pile at the thrift store and grabbed the bottom half from an online seller:

I also got a thick stack of used Yesterday's Classics (Pierson's Among the Series and a couple of the Andrews' Seven Little Sisters books) that went right on to the free reading shelf and are being happily picked through by my bigs.  I plan to work a couple into Cate and Xave's read-aloud time later this year...

What have you been reading lately?