#children's classics

[annelisreadingroom]

I went to the park this morning before heading to the airport. It was so nice and sunny and the park was full of flowers. It's still a bit cold, though. Most days it's around 8°C-12°C. How is the weather where you live and do you like to take outdoor pictures of your books?

[ibrithir-was-here]

I headcanon that this AU Jonathan would go and update the library with new books that would be suitable for each age stage. Learning the local languages would come in handy. Sure the library already has books about tons of topics including law, but I doubt it has for 19th c tweens.

Jonathan definitely make sure to budget in some literature that is both of this current century and actually suitable for children. Quincey doesnt need to grow up on nothing but history books and Dracula's glory day stories. A small trickle of Caroll, Dickens, Stevenson, Kipling and Nesbit all make their was to Castle Dracula over Quincey's childhood

[libertyreads]

Book Review #42 of 2023--

When We Were Very Young by A.A. Milne. Rating: 2 stars.

Read from April 13th to 14th.

This is the third book in the Winnie-the-Pooh series. Though, I would argue that it isn’t really. It’s a bunch of poems that are pretty silly about being a kid and all the things children get up to. But the Winnie-the-Pooh characters aren’t in these poems. So, it doesn’t feel like my favorite fictional stuffed animals. I have the fourth book in the series now as well so I’ll continue on with it, but I really hope it’s not what this one was.

[wedarkacademia]

I know it is my father's first time on this Earth, too. And I know He had it worse when he was little.

But I was little too.

— Franz Kafka, from letters to his father

[infactforgetthepark]

[Free Audiobooks] The Getaway by Lamar Giles & The Wonderland Collection by Lewis Carroll [YA Dystopian Horror & 19th C Classic Fantasy & Math Puzzle Stories]

The annual SYNC Summer of Listening program encouraging literacy among teens by giving away a themed weekly pair of audiobooks—usually 1 modern or non-fiction, 1 classic or drama—returns for another year, courtesy of sponsor AudioFile Magazine and participating publishers.

This 13th week's theme is “Caught in Another's Game”, exploring what happens when characters are no longer in control of their own lives, available from Thursday July 20th through Wednesday July 26th:

The Getaway by Lamar Giles, a recipient of the Virginia's Readers Choice Award and nominee for the Edgar, read by Karl T. Wright, Imani Parks, & P. J. Ochlan from Scholastic Audiobooks. This is a standalone YA dystopian horror novel, set in a near future ravaged by weather disasters, starring a teen whose family are all live-in employees at a cushy theme park refuge for the ultra-wealthy escaping the widespread environmental destruction and societal unrest, where the dynamic changes when a new set of overprivileged “guests” arrive, whose cruel treatment pushes him and his friends to realize the extent of their indentured servitude and take the risk of escaping from it, if they can.

The Wonderland Collection by 19th century author Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, read by Simon Bubb from Thomas Nelson, a division of HarperCollins. This is an omnibus of Carroll's classic children's portal fantasy novels, Alice in Wonderland & Alice Through the Looking Glass which see the titular heroine follow a rabbit into a whimsical magical realm of surreal adventures, and the collection A Tangled Tale featuring humorous short stories centred upon mathematical problems.

The freebies are available via Overdrive's Sora service (listenable via browser on their website, or via their mobile app for iOS & Android devices). To claim them, you'll need to register on the SYNC website with a valid email address to use in a Sora account, using the setup code and directions in the instructions in SYNC's FAQ (no need to re-register if you've participated in previous years' giveaways), clicking “Borrow” to add them to your Sora library as a permanent loan. NB: if you need to free up space on your device later, follow the instructions in the FAQ to only “delete files” and DO NOT “Return” the title, which would remove your future access.

Offered worldwide through Wednesday July 26th until just before midnight Eastern Time, available via the Sora website and app. You can also browse AudioFile Magazine's planned season list to see what will be offered in the weeks ahead and if there's anything you'd especially like to get.

[themastergifs]

THREE YEARS OF THEMASTERGIFS (November 5, 2020)

Dearest, I've been thinking. We need your TARDIS. We can't go up, but we can go down.

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Battle of the Frogs and Mice, from Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse by Willy Pogany (1920)

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[the-gom-jabbar]

[mythical-art]

A section from the second version of 'The Morning', 1809 by Philipp Otto Runge (1809, Öl auf Leinwand)

[halbarryislife]

BBC Children in Need (2023) | Genesis of the Daleks (1975)

[annelisreadingroom]

Hello, did you do anything exciting this weekend? Me and my boyfriend went bowling with our friend and her new boyfriend. Then we had coffee and pizza afterwards.

[sysig]

“It could be that the loss of her children drove the Queen deeper into her darker desires...but, I don’t believe she was fighting against them that hard before that particular tragedy. No monster does.” (Patreon)

Bonus:

Hmm, wonder what he could cover those holes with :3c

[libertyreads]

Book Review #43 of 2023--

Now We Are Six by A.A. Milne. Rating: 2 stars.

Read on April 15th.

I still feel like it was a mistake to include these last two volumes as part of the Winnie-the-Pooh series since both are just silly children’s rhymes. I adore Winnie-the-Pooh so much and have loved that little bear since I was too young to remember seeing it for the first time. So, I really cannot express my disappointment with these last two volumes. This one (book 4) does a slightly better job at including characters the readers already love. Even if they weren’t in the poems/rhymes themselves, the character were in the drawings done by Ernest H. Shepard here and there. I wish we had gotten two more volumes of Winnie-the-Pooh stories instead. But now that I’ve finished the whole series I’m glad to have read it and I’m glad to have the hard back editions I found when on vacation this week.

[happykraut]

The Acolyte and The Master (v.2)

[biggest12fan]