Monday, April 6, 2015

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? 4/06/15


It's Monday! What are you reading? was started by Sheila at Book Journey and was adapted for children's books from picture books through YA by Jen of Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee of Unleashing Readers. You can visit either site for a round up of blogs sharing their weekly readings and thoughts or search Twitter for #IMWAYR.


Last Week's Posts

  • New Books from Kids Can Press. The first of April brought a new crop of wonderful diversity-focused books from Kids Can Press. This post review four of my new favorites.

Picture Books

Spent Spring Break in the mountains, relaxing and avoiding thinking school-related thoughts. So the picture book piles stayed home!

Middle Fiction


The Wee Free Men (2006) by Terry Pratchett. The recent passing of Terry Pratchett made me immediately nostalgic for this series. The Wee Free Men is the first book in the Tiffany Aching sub-series of Discworld books, and, I am embarrassed to report, the only sub-series of Discworld books that I have read. (Those in the know, which books should be on my must read list?)

Nine-year old Tiffany Aching is perfectly positioned when unusual events start occurring around her; after all, she has read the dictionary straight through and always carries a piece of string. Only when Miss Tick confirms that Tiffany might, in fact, be a witch, does her adventure really start to take off (metaphorically speaking - no broomstick for Tiffany yet). This delightful book was a riot to re-read and a series that I highly recommend.

Award-Winning Books Reading Challenge update: 10 books, 2 dedicated posts

Dive into Diversity Challenge update: 63 books, 22 dedicated posts (New Books from Kids Can Press)

Happy Reading!

8 comments:

  1. Terry Pratchett is one of my all time favourite authors and the Tiffany Aching series is not only one of my favourite series, Tiffany just might be my favourite fictional character. You can read my thoughts here. http://dickenslibrary.blogspot.ca/2012/03/tiffany-aching-collection-by-terry.html
    Truly, any of Terry's witch titles are spectacular. I love love love his older witches (who we become acquainted with in Tiffany's books) If you haven't read Nation (not part of discworld) you have been living a deprived life. It's the one that got me hooked on Pratchett's work in the first place.

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    1. Yessss, thanks Cheriee! Exactly the response I was looking for - I put in a library request for Nation immediately, and I look forward to reading your post too. Thanks!

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  2. I'm not familiar with those books. I love books with witches and fairy folk so I better get some of those books.

    Lisa
    LisaTeachR'sClassroom

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    1. Lisa, the Wee Free Men are probably my all-time favorites of the "fairy folk" world (broadly speaking). You will really enjoy them!

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  3. Wee Free Men is one of my all-time favorite books for sure. I might do a reread on audio soon. It's BRILLIANT on audio! I've been wanting to read more Pratchett, as I've read Nation and a few of the Discworld novels for grown-ups, but there's so much more to read. Like you, I'm not quite sure where to start!

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    1. Oh my gosh, I would LOVE to listen to this on audio book! I've gotten so used to NPR on the commute, but that would be an excellent idea. I will keep you posted if I get any more great rec'd.

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  4. Terry Pratchett! I have a collection of his Discworld Novels and I am sure I have a copy of Wee Free Men but I have this vision that I would first collect all the titles before I begin reading everything. Hehe. Well, I would definitely be forced to read The Colour of Magic as it is our book of the month for my adult book club. Really looking forward to that.

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    1. Let me know what you think of it! I am really hoping for more direction than "here is every book!" before I jump in.

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