I don’t know what they’re paying Brett Helquist to illustrate a book, but if it’s not a lot, he should demand more. I also don’t know if Mr. Helquist has some kind of magical spell that he places on his illustrations, but I’m telling you that his pictures draw me into a story in a …
Category Archive: Summer reading
Jul 23
Reading Out Loud: 55 Favorite Read-Aloud Books from the Semicolon Homeschool
I’m not saying these are THE BEST read-alouds, just some of our favorites. 1. Adams, Richard. Watership Down. Violence and mythology and rabbits. This novel of rabbit communities is long, but worth persevering through. 2. Aiken, Joan. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Deliciously Victorian, and dangerous, and odd, this one is a sort of October-ish …
Jul 10
55 Texas Tales: From Galveston to Amarillo to Brownsville to El Paso
I must admit that I’m a proud Texan with a mild Texas accent and a whiff of Texas braggadocio. And I think reading books by Texan authors or books set deep in the heart of Texas is a great way to spend a summer afternoon. Adams, Andy. The Log of a Cowboy. Semicolon review here. …
Jul 06
Saturday Review of Books: July 7, 2012
“The sight of the cover of a book one has previously read retains, woven into the letters of its title, the moonbeams of a far-off summer night.” ~Marcel Proust Welcome to the Saturday Review of Books at Semicolon. Here’s how it usually works. Find a book review on your blog posted sometime during the previous …
May 29
Book Tag: Summer Setting, Summer Reading
How would you like to play book tag this summer? The idea for this game originally came from Carmon at her blog Buried Treasure, but since she no longer seems to be keeping a blog, I thought we’d play here. “In this game, readers suggest a good book in the category given, then let somebody …
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