Hello Readers, Welcome to Day Five of The 12 Days of Books! All children can be wonderful and all children can be nightmares. In The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson, six nasty, manipulative children take over a church Christmas pageant. The Herdman kids (Imogene, Claude, Ralph, Leroy, Ollie, and Gladys) are a…
Hello Readers, Welcome to the Day Four of The 12 Days of Books! Christmas is a time for celebration and joy. It is a time for reflection. It is a time to be thankful for the many blessings in your life. It is a time to laugh with friends. It is a time to gather…
Hello Readers, Welcome to Day Three of The 12 Days of Books! Have your travel plans ever been derailed? You think you’ll get to your connection in plenty of time, but the LIRR is delayed (as usual), the runway is icy, or your car has a flat tire and suddenly you have to improvise and…
Hello Readers! Welcome to Day 2 of The 12 Days of Books. The Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center is at the heart of Christmas in New York. If you have ever visited Rockefeller Center, you know that it is packed with tourists at Christmastime. Even though everyone knows it’s a tourist trap from Thanksgiving to…
Hello Readers! Welcome to The 12 Days of Books – 12 Days highlighting our literary favorites, an annual tradition here at The Write Teacher(s). Published by Bradbury and Evans in December of 1845, The Cricket on the Hearth is a delightful, domestic Christmas novel by Charles Dickens. Serving as a baromoter for the Peerybingle household,…
Dear Bookworms, With this sixth installment of the Thursday Next series, Jasper Fforde delves once again into the complexities of the BookWorld – and shakes up all the rules. To begin with, the novel opens immediately upon an account of the BookWorld’s transformation from an interstellar layout to a terrestrial one with free-floating landmasses. Although…
Happy October, my fellow readers. I know it’s cliché, but the crisp, beautiful weather of October always makes me think of that passage in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables: “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” This month, we’re excited to read the following books: Small Great Things…
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations I hope the Dickens quote above will be reflected in the weather this month. I am ready for a taste of…
Hello Beautiful People, I first discovered Sarah Jio when I stumbled across a copy of The Violets of March in my local bookstore. From then on, I was hooked! (And I’m happy to say that Sarah has even participated in our Author Q&A Series.) But alas, I digress. Book 3 is Jio’s latest novel, The…
Hello Friends, As an actress, teaching artist, and writer; I’ve found that amongst other things, a lot of my days seem to follow the theme, “hurry up and wait.” On one particular day of “hurry up and wait,” after work and before rehearsal, I found myself with some time to kill near the Mecca of…