With holiday gift-giving approaching, I thought this might be a good time to revisit some children’s classics. What does it take for a book to become a classic? First, it needs to stand the test of time: to be read and enjoyed decades or even centuries after it was written. To be… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Favorite Classic Books (or) Top Ten Classics I Want to Read. I went with the latter. Here goes (and no fair berating me for not reading them yet!) As… Read more »
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery Series: Anne of Green Gables #1 on originally published in 1908 Genres: MG Books, YA (Young Adult) Add to Goodreads As soon as Anne Shirley arrives at the snug white farmhouse called Green Gables, she is sure she wants to stay forever… Read more »
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I’m skipping this week’s scheduled topic to focus on Children’s Book Week with a list of my Top Ten Classic Children’s Books. Alphabetically by author, the following were among my favorite “older” classic children’s books… Read more »
Apropos of my earlier posting about Cushing Academy’s bookless library and the dubious availability of children’s and YA books in e-book format, I decided to do some further checking. I chose to check Amazon’s Kindle store rather than the Sony e-book store, because there are more titles available overall for… Read more »
