What Karate Kid Read: February/March 2010

Crazy Lady by Jane Conly.

They Put Out to Sea: The Story of the Map by Roger Duvoisin.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. We read this play out loud together. I enjoyed it, not sure about KK.

Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes. Retold by Michael Harrison and illustrated by Victor Ambrus.

A Piece of the Mountain: The Story of Blaise Pascal by Joyce McPherson.

Escape Across the Wide Sea by Katherine McPherson.

He also read a few poems by John Donne and by John Milton.

Listened to:
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. Well, actually, he’s still listening. It’s a very long book.

Karate Kid also read various books and articles on card tricks, magic, sleight of hand and all that jazz. He’s fascinated with card tricks particularly, and he carries a deck of cards around everywhere he goes, shuffling the cards, and cutting the cards in all kinds of flourishy ways. He has, as of late, been asking me or his father to gat him magic books at the library.

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