![]() ![]() I also love how Pratchett thinks about witches and witchcraft: it's much less about actual magic and casting spells as it is about changing the way you think about the world, the people in it, and how to handle situations. I especially appreciated his descriptions of Tiffany's (and Grandma Aching's) relationship to the land - the Chalk - as creatures f their native clay, and as shepards not just of their sheep but on the whole biome / landscape. I was also pleased to be running into Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax. As a character, Tiffany reminds me a lot of Sarah Seagull: independent, thinks for herself, and has pretty good intuition about people and relationships. I wanted to start this series because the end of it is Shepard's Crown, and I'm keen to learn what happens in it, but I ant to read up to it through the Tiffany Aching series. ![]() I listened to the talking book narrated by Steven B. ![]()
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I seem to have a niche and specific love for historical fantasy with strong female main characters, witchy themes and watery settings. ![]() Whatever soul I might have, O’Malley though I might be, it is mine and I’ll not sell it at any price. ![]() ![]() They didn’t bring much back with them, except for an unexpected pregnancy… Twins to be precise. Matthew and Diana return from the past and are ready to face the future that they left behind. (If you need a refresher, check out my reviews of her first two books here). Her third and final book in the All Souls Trilogy, The Book of Life, was a fun and easy read. Deborah Harkness, thankfully, did not put me through such anguish. Martin and Patrick Rothfuss, I’m looking at you both!). I have started many a trilogy/series where I have waited, painstakingly, as the years go by and still no new release (George R.R. ![]() I felt relief when I saw that this book was coming out this Summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1951, Don and Lydia Freeman published their first book for children, Chuggy and the Blue Caboose, and in 1953 they published Pet of the Met. Don Freeman wrote and illustrated many picture books that won critical appraise, including a Caldecott Honor citation for Fly High, Fly Low in 1958. Freeman worked as a freelance artist and a graphic artist for the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune before beginning to illustrate books in the 1940s. In 1929, he finally moved to New York and worked as a jazz trumpeter. Although he intended to go to New York after graduating from high school, his grandmother arranged for him to go to a summer class at San Diego School for Fine Arts. At a young age, he and his brother were placed with a guardian along with another boy, and he lived for weekends when his father came to visit. Don Freeman was born in San Diego, California. ![]() ![]() ![]() The kids can’t wait to find out what’s going to happen, so we jump in! We talk about who Brontorina might be, and they all agree it must be the dinosaur on the cover. ![]() Then someone points out that the name of someone in the class starts with a B as well. We talk about the letter it starts with and the sound it makes. We’re building prediction skills and a foundation for connections and comprehension. ![]() Wait, is that a boy dinosaur or a girl dinosaur?” I ask what they think the story might be about. “Probably their grandma,” someone suggests. Some point out that there are BOY ballet dancers, and an old lady. They love that the dinosaur’s head is bumping into the letters above. ![]() They notice the ballet dancers and the enormous dinosaur on the cover. 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