This beautiful story is about a boy and his father who are feeling sad. They pull on hats and coats and climb a snow covered hill, pulling their red sled. They zoom down the hill under a starlit sky. With their spirits high once again, they go home for a mug of hot chocolate.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Red Sled by Pat Thomas
This beautiful story is about a boy and his father who are feeling sad. They pull on hats and coats and climb a snow covered hill, pulling their red sled. They zoom down the hill under a starlit sky. With their spirits high once again, they go home for a mug of hot chocolate.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
The Swallows and Amazons series by Arthur Ransome
Meet the Swallows and the Amazons, the D’s and the Coot Club. Whether they are camping or sailing, climbing mountains or escaping pirates, charting unknown waters or taking risks to protect wildlife, dealing with unexpected crises or learning new codes, they are sure to be resourceful, adventurous, and imaginative.
Swallows and Amazons begins the series with the four Walker children, sailors of the Swallow, meeting the Amazon pirates (Nancy and Peggy Blackett) and their fearsome Uncle Jim (AKA Captain Flint), fighting for the rights to camp on Wildcat Island, and recovering a stolen treasure.
In Swallowdale, an accident forces the Walker explorers to camp on shore—and what a perfect place they find for playing hide-and-seek with their piratical friends!
Peter Duck takes the Swallows, Amazons, and Captain Flint on a real seafaring voyage (or is it a tale of their own invention?), pursuing pirate treasure, and pursued by very real pirates bent on taking the treasure for themselves—at all costs!
In Winter Holiday, the D’s (Dick and Dorothea Callum) are introduced. The holiday is extended when Captain Nancy comes down with the mumps. But who will plan the adventures with their fearless leader in quarantine?
The D’s meet the Coot Club in the book of that name, and they learn to sail while helping their new friends defend the local waterfowl from horrible summer people called the Hullabaloos.
Pigeon Post finds all the young adventurers (except the Coot Club) camping out in the hills and searching for gold in abandoned mines.
Through a chain of accidental circumstances, the Walker children find themselves sailing across the North Sea alone in a borrowed yacht in We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea.
In Secret Water, the adventurers meet new friends and tidal adventures while they learn the science of mapping uncharted waters.
In The Big Six, the D’s return to their Coot Club friends, and help them to solve the mystery of who is trying to get them all in trouble with the law.
Another adventure which, like Peter Duck, takes the fictional aspects of the story to a higher level, is Missee Lee, in which the Swallows, Amazons, and Captain Flint take a trip around the world and get mixed up with some Chinese pirates.
In The Picts and the Martyrs, the D’s become "Picts," hiding out from the Blacketts’ formidable Great-Aunt, who is making "Martyrs" of them. Can the children accomplish all their summer plans without giving away their secret?
Finally, the Swallows, Amazons, and D’s are all reunited in Great Northern? in which they seek to identify and protect a rare pair of birds in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
Swallows and Amazons begins the series with the four Walker children, sailors of the Swallow, meeting the Amazon pirates (Nancy and Peggy Blackett) and their fearsome Uncle Jim (AKA Captain Flint), fighting for the rights to camp on Wildcat Island, and recovering a stolen treasure.
In Swallowdale, an accident forces the Walker explorers to camp on shore—and what a perfect place they find for playing hide-and-seek with their piratical friends!
Peter Duck takes the Swallows, Amazons, and Captain Flint on a real seafaring voyage (or is it a tale of their own invention?), pursuing pirate treasure, and pursued by very real pirates bent on taking the treasure for themselves—at all costs!
In Winter Holiday, the D’s (Dick and Dorothea Callum) are introduced. The holiday is extended when Captain Nancy comes down with the mumps. But who will plan the adventures with their fearless leader in quarantine?
The D’s meet the Coot Club in the book of that name, and they learn to sail while helping their new friends defend the local waterfowl from horrible summer people called the Hullabaloos.
Pigeon Post finds all the young adventurers (except the Coot Club) camping out in the hills and searching for gold in abandoned mines.
Through a chain of accidental circumstances, the Walker children find themselves sailing across the North Sea alone in a borrowed yacht in We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea.
In Secret Water, the adventurers meet new friends and tidal adventures while they learn the science of mapping uncharted waters.
In The Big Six, the D’s return to their Coot Club friends, and help them to solve the mystery of who is trying to get them all in trouble with the law.
Another adventure which, like Peter Duck, takes the fictional aspects of the story to a higher level, is Missee Lee, in which the Swallows, Amazons, and Captain Flint take a trip around the world and get mixed up with some Chinese pirates.
In The Picts and the Martyrs, the D’s become "Picts," hiding out from the Blacketts’ formidable Great-Aunt, who is making "Martyrs" of them. Can the children accomplish all their summer plans without giving away their secret?
Finally, the Swallows, Amazons, and D’s are all reunited in Great Northern? in which they seek to identify and protect a rare pair of birds in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
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