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A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Sydney Theatre Company

A couple of days ago Munchkin and I went to see the play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' at the Sydney Theatre Company. It has been a while since we have read any Shakespeare stories or watched any plays or movies. Although Munchkin enjoyed the first two stories (A Midsummer Night's Dream and Taming of the Shrew), she became resistant to reading more stories. So, I decided to have a break until this play.


I'm glad I did as, after seeing this play, Munchkin has now got a renewed interest in Shakespeare's stories. Perhaps I was trying to do the stories too often and she found it overwhelming. Needless to say I will now be spacing out the stories.

10:31 PM - Aug. 25, 2007 - comments {0} - post comment


Book Study: Hatchet

Munchkin has become fascinated with lapbooks. As we are about to start reading Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, I have decided that we will create a lapbook during our reading. This literature unit will also be part of our geography lessons. Here are some ideas for things which can be included in a lapbook on Hatchet:

  • Information on the author Gary Paulsen
  • Character Biography: Brian Robeson
  • Include a picture of the Cessna airplane
  • Locate New York and Canada
  • Include information about Canada: Map (Ontario, Quebec, Canadian Shield) and Flag
  • Include information on Canadian wildlife: Within this terrain of lakes and forests live black bears, brown bears, wolves, coyotes, foxes, skunks, Canadian porcupines, beavers, and muskrats.
  • Label a diagram of the heart and write a paragraph about what happens during a heart attack.
  • Include information about survival kits. Design your own survival kit. (http://center.dordt.edu/266.543units/warriors/learnsurvtips.html)
  • Create a diorama of Brian's shelter - include photo of the diorama in the lapbook.
  • Study the weather conditions that cause tornados.

I hope Munchkin finds this enjoyable.

12:19 AM - Aug. 7, 2007 - comments {0} - post comment


Shakespeare: Munchkin's Copywork Page

This is Munchkin's copywork for Taming of the Shrew:


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1:23 PM - Jun. 5, 2007 - comments {0} - post comment


Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew Copywork Quotes and Shakespeare Mini-Books

Here are some selected quotes from The Taming of the Shrew for copywork:


 The Taming of the Shrew

 

"I am as peremptory as she proud-minded.

And where two raging fires meet together

They do consume the thing that makes them fury."

Act 2, Scene 1, lines 131-133

 

“Thou must be married to no man but me.

For I am he am born to tame you, Kate

And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate

Conformable as other household Kates."

Act 2, Scene 1, lines 268-271

 

“Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,
They head, thy sovereign - one that cares for thee,
And for thy maintenance commits his body
To painful labor both by sea and land,
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
Whilst thou li'st warm at home, secure and safe;
And craves no other tribute at thy hands
But love, fair looks, and true obedience:
Too little payment for so great a debt.

Act 5, Scene 2, lines 146-154


 Also, I came across Scholastic's Shakespeare Mini-Books today. Only a small selection of Shakespeare's plays are included in this book but, in addition to the mini-books, there is an introduction to each play, a plot summary, suggestions for activities based on the plays, and a glossary. For example, for Macbeth the following activity is suggested:


Ask students to imagine the letter that Macbeth sent to his wife after his encounter with the three witches. Then have them write the letter they think he might have sent.



This resource is a nice way to expand on a play during its study.

10:32 AM - Jun. 3, 2007 - comments {0} - post comment


Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew and Free Shakespeare Audio Stories

Munchkin has been home sick with the flu this week. The first couple of days she had a fever and spent most of the time sleeping. Today she was feeling much better and spent the day snuggled on the couch drawing, reading, and watching a couple of movies.


One of the things we got a chance to do is to continue with our Shakespeare stories. We read Taming of the Shrew and then watched the movie starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. I was really pleased as Munchkin showed even more interest in this story than A Midsummer Night's Dream. Perhaps she is starting to realize that the stories aren't boring and have an interesting plot. We briefly discussed the story, and Munchkin concluded that the whole reason why Petruchio was so mean to Katherine was to teach her what it was like to have someone be mean to you.


Also, for anyone interested in Shakespeare, LibriVox has just released the audio for Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb.


7:35 PM - May. 30, 2007 - comments {0} - post comment


Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream

I have officially started my Shakespeare in our spare time plan. Couple of nights ago we read A Midsummer Night's Dream from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit. Tonight we watched the movie that was directed by Michael Hoffman. Please be aware that certain scenes may need to be fast forwarded or edited as their is some nudity. In a couple of nights we are going to watch the 1981 BBC production of A Midsummer Night's Dream with Helen Mirren. Also, over the next few days Munchkin is going to do some copywork using direct quotes from the play itself. We might not be reading the play itself but at least she is getting exposed to the language by watching the movies and doing the copywork. Here are some quotes which we will use:


"The course of true love never did run smooth". Quote (Act I, Scene I).


"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind". Quote  (Act I, Scene I).


"Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad". Quote (Act 3, Scene 2).


"If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear". Quote (Act 5, Scene 1).

10:15 PM - May. 23, 2007 - comments {0} - post comment


Shakespeare in Our Spare Time

Since Munchkin is in school during the day, I am trying to find a way to incorporate some activities into our daily lives which still expose her to the things I want her to learn and read. One of those things is Shakespeare. I wish I could delve into the plays along the recommendations provided by the Ambleside Curriculum and spend a term on each play. But with Munchkin's full schedule as it is, I will only explore one of this plays in depth if she is really interested. At this stage I just want her to become acquainted with the plays and once she returns home we can study the plays in more detail. So for now I am going to start a Shakespeare Movie Night at our home. Basically this will consist of us reading a story from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit every week (or two weeks). This will be followed by the Shakespeare Movie Night were we all snuggle on the lounge with popcorn and watch the movie / play itself. Munchkin adored Romeo and Juliet (the only Shakespeare play she knows), so I'm hoping that she will enjoy the others too.


11:57 PM - May. 21, 2007 - comments {0} - post comment


World E-Book Fair

I just found out about this event and thought others would be interested too:

 

July 4th to August 4, 2006 marks a month long celebration of the 35th anniversary of the first step taken towards today's eBooks, when the United States Declaration of Independence was the first file placed online for downloading in what was destined to be an electronic library of the Internet. Today's eBook library has a total of over 100 languages represented.

 

The World eBook Fair welcomes you to absolutely free access to a variety of eBook unparalleled by any other source. 1/3 million eBooks await you, all free of charge for the month from July 4 - August 4, 2006, and then 1/2 million eBooks in 2007, 3/4 million in 2008, and ONE million in 2009.

 

Ten times as many eBooks are available from private eBook sources, without the media circus that comes with 100 billion dollar media mavens such as Google. The World eBook Fair has created a library of wide ranging sample of these eBooks, totaling 1/3 million. Here are eBooks from nearly every classic author on the varieties of subjects previously only available through the largest library collections in the world. Now these books are yours for the taking, free of charge, to keep for the rest of your lives.
 

This event is brought to you by the oldest and largest free eBook source on the Internet, Project Gutenberg, with the assistance of the World eBook Library, the providers of the largest collection, and a number of other eBook efforts around the world. The World eBook Library normally charges $8.95 per year for online access, and allows unlimited permanent downloading. During The World eBook Fair all these books are available free of charge through a gateway at http://www.gutenberg.org

 

http://www.worldebookfair.com/

 

 

10:44 PM - Jun. 22, 2006 - comments {0} - post comment


Classic Books List 7 - 9

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon

Anne of Green Gables and others by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Barnaby Ridge by Charles Dickens

Ben Hur and others by Lew Wallace

Bulfinch's Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch

Bulfinch's Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch

Bulfinch's Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch

By Pike and Dyke by G. A. Henty

Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare

Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

For the Temple by G. A. Henty

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

Hound of the Baskervilles & others by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

In the Heart of the Rockies by G. A. Henty

Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

King Solomon's Mines and others by Henry Rider Haggard

Last Days of Pompeii by Lord Edward Bulwar-Lytton

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Life of David Crockett by Davey Crockett

Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkein

Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Pilgrim's Progress and others by John Bunyan

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggen

Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott

Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

St. Bartholomew's Eve by G. A. Henty

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

Taking of the Bastille by Alexandre Dumas

Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Doyle

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

The Lion of the North by G. A. Henty

The Ways of the Hour by James Fenimore Cooper

The Young Carthaginian by G. A. Henty

Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Time Machine and others by H. G. Wells

Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells

Watership Down by Richard Adams

White Fang by Jack London

Winning his Spurs by G. A. Henty

Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

With the Lee in Virginia by G. A. Henty

Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

Wulf the Saxon by G. A. Henty

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings

6:20 PM - Jun. 18, 2006 - comments {0} - post comment


Classic Books List 4 - 6

20,000 leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Girl of the Limberlost by Stratton-Porter

A Tale of the Western Plains by G. A. Henty

Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Adventures of Tintin by Herge

Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb

Aeneid for Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church

Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott

Archimedes & the Door of Science by Jeanne Bendick

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit

Beowulf, the Warrior by Ian Serraillier

Beric the Briton by G. A. Henty

Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

Black Beauty: the Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell

Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff

Bonnie Prince Charlie by G. A. Henty

Borrowers and others by Mary Norton

Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink

Call of the Wild by Jack London 

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth

Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang by Ian Fleming

Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

Dragon Slayer by Rosemary Sutcliff

Eagle of the Ninth and other historical fiction by Rosemary Sutcliff

Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Facing Death by G. A. Henty

Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

Five Children & It by Edith Nesbit

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew and others by Margaret Sidney

For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem & others by G. A. Henty

From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne

Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes

Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl

Heidi by Joanna Spyri

Henry Huggins and other Henry books by Beverly Cleary

House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne

Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm

I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth de Trevino

Iliad for Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church

In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce by G. A. Henty

In the Reign of Terror by G. A. Henty

Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Kidnapped by Robert Lois Stevenson

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight

Last of the Mohicans and others by James Fenimore Cooper

Little Britches: Father & I Were Ranchers and others by Ralph Moody

Little Lord Flauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsey

Mary Poppins and others by Pamela L. Travers

Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Moffats by Eleanor Estes

Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater

Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brien

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle and others by Betty MacDonald

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Odyssey for Boys and Girls by Alfred J. Church

Old Yeller by Fred Gipson

Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle

Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat

Peter Pan by James Barrie

Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Phoenix and the Carpet by Edith Nesbit

Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (children's version)

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Pippi Longstocking and others by Astrid Lindgren

Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter

Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Princess and Curdie by George McDonald

Princess and the Goblin by George McDonald

Railway Children by Edith Nesbit

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan

Sounder by William Armstrong

Story of Dr. Doolittle and others by Hugh Lofting

Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle

Story of the Greeks and others by H. A. Guerber

Stuart Little by E. B. White

Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan: The Beasts of Tarzan, the Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The Boy Knight by G. A. Henty

The Cat of Bubastes by G. A. Henty

The Dash for Khartoum by G. A. Henty

The Dragon and the Raven by G. A. Henty

The Knight of the White Cross by G. A. Henty

The Lion of St. Mark by G. A. Henty

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

Twenty One Balloons by William Pene DuBois

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and others by Jules Verne

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Under Drake's Flag by G. A. Henty

Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott

Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

What Katy Did and others by Susan Coolidge

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

With Wolfe in Canada by G. A. Henty

Won by the Sword by G. A. Henty

Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wonderful Wizard of Oz and others by Frank Baum

5:13 PM - Jun. 18, 2006 - comments {0} - post comment


Classic Books List K - 3

A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

A Treasury of Mother Goose

Abraham Lincoln by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire

Aesop for Children by Aesop

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by J. Viorst

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Amelia Bedelia and others by Peggy Parish

And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz

And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street! by Dr. Seuss

Anderson's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson 

Bard of Avon: the Story of William Shakespeare by Diane Stanley

Bear Called Paddington and others by Michael Bond

Bedtime for Frances and other Frances books by Russell Hoban

Benjamin Franklin by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Box-Car Children and others by Gertrude Warner

By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina

Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

Charles Dickens: the Man Who Had Great Expectations by Diane Stanley

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojchiechowski

City by David Macaulay

Cleopatra by Diane Stanley

Columbus by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Corduroy by Don Freeman

Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh

Curious George by Hans A. Rey

D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

D'Aulaire's Norse Gods & Giants by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Dr. Dolittle: A Treasury by Hugh Lofting

Eric the Red & Leif the Lucky by Barbara Schiller

Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss

Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown

Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss

Frog and Toad are Friends and others by Arnold Lobel

George Washington by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Good Queen Bess by Diane Stanley

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Grain of Rice by Helena Clare Pittman

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss

Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes

If You Give A Moose A Muffin by Laura Joffe Numeroff

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Peter Roop

Leif the Lucky by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

Leonardo da Vinci by Diane Stanley

Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgeson Burnett

Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Madeline and others by Ludwig Bemelmans

Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Minn of the Mississippi by Holling C. Holling

Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

Mouse on the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannet

Nate the Great and others by Marjorie Sharmat

New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert

Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne

Old Mother West Wind and others by Thornton W. Burgess

On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

Owl Moon by Jane Yolan

Paddle to the Sea by Holling C. Holling

Pagoo by Holling C. Holling

Perrault's Complete Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault 

Peter the Great by Diane Stanley

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 

Pyramid by David Macaulay

Seabird by Holling C. Holling

Sir Francis Drake: His Daring Deeds by Roy Gerrard

Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims by Clyde Robert Bulla

St. George and the Dragon by Margaret Hodges

Stone Soup and others by Marcia Brown

Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack

Story of Babar and others by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff

Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Complete Tales of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne

The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Pied Piper of Hamlin by Robert Browning

The Princess and the Curdie by George MacDonald

The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnett

The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

These Happy Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling

Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams 

Very Hungry Caterpillar and others by Eric Carle 

Water Babies by Charles Kingsley

When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak 

Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

4:58 PM - Jun. 18, 2006 - comments {0} - post comment


Completed Book List - Munchkin

This is a list of books that Munchkin has completed reading independently since I started this blog.

 

  1. The Twits by Roald Dahl
  2. Madeline in London by Ludwig Bemelmans
  3. Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
  4. Frog and Toad are Friends and others by Arnold Lobel

  5. Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown
  6. Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary
  7. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
  8. The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
  9. Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
  10. The Boxcar Children #1
  11. The Boxcar Children #2
  12. Jacky the Laughing Kookaburra by Diana Petersen
  13. Usborne Greek Myths for Young Children In Progress
  14. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen In Progress

 This is a list of books that Munchkin and I are reading together:

 

  1. My Story: Surviving Sydney Cove In Progress

 

This is a list of books that Munchkin has listened to or I have read out loud.

 

  1. Fudge-a-mania by Judy Blume
  2. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl

  3. Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojchiechowski
  4. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 
  5. Peter Pan by James Barrie
  6. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
  7. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
  8. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  9. Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
  10. The Hobbit
  11. Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff In Progress
  12. The Little Black Princess In Progress
  13. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince In Progress

     

 

 

 

2:43 AM - Jun. 12, 2006 - comments {0} - post comment


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