Question of the Day: do you like reading classic novels?
Show & Tell – Timeless
Tag: middle grade series
Show & Tell – Behind the Wall
Question of the Day: what was your very first introduction to portal fiction?
Quote of the Day – Winnie-the-Pooh
Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look Ready for Anything.
–Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
Quote of the Day – Justin Case
I wanted to be good at sports and very fast, so I said okay to the white-and-silver sporty sneakers. The rest of today whenever I looked down, I thought some other kid’s feet got stuck on the bottoms of my legs.
–Justin Case: Shells, Smells, and the Horrible Flip-Flops of Doom by Rachel Vail
Show & Tell – Stacked
Question of the Day: which classic book have you recently revisited?
Quote of the Day – The Wizard of Oz
“While Dorothy was looking earnestly into the queer, painted face of the Scarecrow, she was surprised to see one of the eyes slowly wink at her. She thought she must have been mistaken, at first, for none of the scarecrows in Kansas ever wink; but presently the figure nodded its head to her in a friendly way.”
–The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Quote of the Day – Finding Serendipity
When children at school talked about the Vivienne Small books, Tuesday never said “My mom wrote them,” even though she sometimes felt she would burst with the effort of keeping it a secret.
–Finding Serendipity by Angelica Banks
Show & Tell – Fairy Dust
Question of the Day: what’s your favorite fantasy race?
Quote of the Day – Clementine
The secret thing I know about ideas is that once they sproing into your head you have to grab them fast, or else they get bored and bounce away.
–Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
Show & Tell – Message in a Bottle
Question of the Day: do you have a good luck ritual or object?
