My house has chicken legs. Two or three times a year, without warning, it stands up in the middle of the night and walks away from where we’ve been living.
The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson
Quote of the Day – The House with Chicken Legs
Tag: Middle Grade
Show & Tell – Timeless
Question of the Day: do you like reading classic novels?
Quote of the Day – Holes
He smiled. It was a family joke. Whenever anything went wrong, they always blamed Stanley’s no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
Holes by Louis Sachar
Quote of the Day – Feathers
“He belongs where he belongs. If he ended up here, then that’s where he belongs.”
–Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
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
Quote of the Day – Liar & Spy
My name is Gorges, which is pronounced just like “George” because the S is silent, but of course some kids call me “Jor-Jess” or “Gorgeous.” I don’t much care. There are worst things to be called that Gorgeous, even for a boy.
–Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead
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
