Category Archives: Read-aloud book

WITCH WEEK DAY FIVE: Discussion of The Other Wind

Posted on November 4, 2018 by Lizzie Ross

Chris, Lizzie and Lory approached this discussion of The Other Wind, this year’s readalong book, not as a Q/A session, but rather as responses developing over time and in conversation with each other. Below: the edited version, with sections that … Continue reading →

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Tall tales and just-so stories

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Lizzie Ross

Karel Čapek’s Nine Fairy Tales (1932, tr. 1990 by D. Herrmann) is another treasure found while wandering my school library’s stacks. There are actually ten tales here (And One More Thrown in for Good Measure is the subtitle), most short enough for a … Continue reading →

Posted in 2015 Reading Challenge, Animal tales, Fantasy, Read-aloud book | Tagged | 4 Comments