My children's book review column from The News Tribune this week listed some great last-minute gift suggestions, though in my opinion there needs to be no special occasion to bring new books into the house. My daughter, Halley, says Seabury kids will particularly love The Mysterious Benedict Society. And the Elephant & Piggie books are delightful!
The week before, I wrote about Christmas books. My favorite this year is Gr
eat Joy by Kate DiCamillo, the author of the Newbery Medal book The Tale of Desperaux - a great favorite here at Seabury. I'm planning to read Great Joy to a couple of classes tomorrow. It's a tear-jerker on the order of The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, one of the best Christmas books ever. I saw yesterday that Great Joy was available at the Tacoma Target.(By the way, good news about News Tribune archives. They no longer make you pay when articles are just two weeks old. That means you can read my columns for free for longer, plus any other TNT stories of course!)
Talk to you soon ...
