Boy, as he is called, is an outcast in his medieval village. He is able to communicate with animals, is mocked for his misshapen back, and treated cruelly by those he works for. One day a pilgrim named Secundus passes through and engages Boy as his servant on a journey to retrieve the...
The Met is also doing “Moby-Dick,” which I won’t see though I admire their bravery — there’s only one woman in it (in a boy’s role), otherwise a shipload of doomed sailors — but I’d advise them to aim for the Strong Woman/Joyful Ending model — stories of warrior queens...
Oberon, having thus obtained the little boy he had so long wished for to be his page, took pity on the disgraceful situation into which, by his merry contrivance, he had brought his Titania, and threw some of the juice of the other flower into her eyes; and the fairy queen immediately...
I have found that many students improve greatly when they start reading their papers aloud. You can also help yourself get started in writing by talking out your ideas with other people, or even to yourself! You can record your ideas on your phone as you are walking somewhere, or waiting ...
It doesn’t matter how old you are. The first snowfall of the year is magical. Author Gehl’s lyrical text wondrously captures how a young boy and his family (which includes his dog yay!) appreciate this gift of nature from watching the flakes fall in the morning, frolicking in the fros...
or the human riders. His next idea was to attach the beavers to surplus World War II parachutes and drop them into their new home. After experimenting with a variety of boxes, he finally found one that seemed like it would work. When he tried it out with a beaver named Geronimo, the ...
Read on for all the deets! My husband Erik and I are currently staying in a hotel in a small city in Colombia, where we are in the process of adopting a teenage boy named Sam! After an extensive ten-year wait, we are finally adopting again! Pictures of Sam and Colombia are included...
If you judge this book by its first page spread, the title,The Most Boring Book Ever,fits. The artwork shows a hat and glass wearing boy with his hands folded on his lap sitting in a chair in a white background and the text reads “A boy sat in a chair.” If one continues to ...
Deborah Underwood became well known forThe Quiet Book, but before that, she wrotePirate Mom, which is the completeoppositeof quiet. It’s a laugh-out-loud beginning reader about a boy named Pete whose mom gets hypnotized into thinking she’s a pirate, and then wears an eyepatch, flies a...
Very powerful as a read aloud in my room. My students can’t get enough of Greta and her choices to stand up and be heard. Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot!byCece Bell Super duper silly stories with high kid appeal served up in an early reader. Very popular in my Grade 2 and 3 cl...