Dead Tree Reading 2016 #2
Feb. 3rd, 2016 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desertvixen Not as many titles for this entry, as I either a) read more Kindle titles and b) discarded a few titles that were not good.
8. Taking Off (Maryellen) by Valerie Tripp: This is the second of the books for the new American Girl historical doll, Maryellen Larkin, a girl from the 1950s who lives in Florida, and she's pretty likable. I dont like that AG has started doing less books (although longer) for the dolls, but this one was very readable. Maryellen has had polio (and recovered), so she does a fundraiser for the March of Dimes at her birthday party, and the book is set during the time period when Salk's vaccine was announced. She has a case of wanting to "stand out" and be famous, but she learns the usual lessons, without too much pain. It also features a family trip to Yellowstone.
9. I See Kitty by Yasmine Surovec: This is definitely a little kids book, with fanciful pictures of a little girl who wants a cat seeing Kitty everywhere (in the clouds, in a woman's bouffant hairdo) - very cute. And it has a happy ending.
10. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White - I have obviously read this one, but I was reading it aloud to the MiniVixen. A good time was had by everyone involved, although I'm still not capable of reading the part of the book where Charlotte dies without crying (it's that and the Velveteen Rabbit). I find my feelings about the book are summed up by this quote: "Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.”
DV
8. Taking Off (Maryellen) by Valerie Tripp: This is the second of the books for the new American Girl historical doll, Maryellen Larkin, a girl from the 1950s who lives in Florida, and she's pretty likable. I dont like that AG has started doing less books (although longer) for the dolls, but this one was very readable. Maryellen has had polio (and recovered), so she does a fundraiser for the March of Dimes at her birthday party, and the book is set during the time period when Salk's vaccine was announced. She has a case of wanting to "stand out" and be famous, but she learns the usual lessons, without too much pain. It also features a family trip to Yellowstone.
9. I See Kitty by Yasmine Surovec: This is definitely a little kids book, with fanciful pictures of a little girl who wants a cat seeing Kitty everywhere (in the clouds, in a woman's bouffant hairdo) - very cute. And it has a happy ending.
10. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White - I have obviously read this one, but I was reading it aloud to the MiniVixen. A good time was had by everyone involved, although I'm still not capable of reading the part of the book where Charlotte dies without crying (it's that and the Velveteen Rabbit). I find my feelings about the book are summed up by this quote: "Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.”
DV
