As previously mentioned, Cate is working on the third study guide for her Aslan in Our World series, the one on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Now, since the rest of us at the Writery needed to read the story over again, in order to have it fresh in our minds when it came time to do the editing, Cate decided she should just … Continue reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
When we read Alexandra’s novel, My Home Grows, for “Reading and Refreshments” back in January, we knew it wouldn’t be long before the other siblings were clamoring for their turn. So, in the interest of fairness, we are now giving Cate’s novel, Bernadette: Princess Under Protest, its turn in the spotlight. (Don will have to wait a few more months before the Freestyle Five make … Continue reading Bernadette: Princess Under Protest
For April’s “Reading and Refreshments,” we have been reading The Willoughby Captains, a school story by the British Victorian-era author Talbot Baines Reed. Reed wrote a number of novels about schoolboys, but The Willoughby Captains gives perhaps the most comprehensive view of the everyday pursuits, strenuous rivalries, and celebrated accomplishments of the boys’ school of his day: from fagging to field days; from classes to … Continue reading The Willoughby Captains
This month we have been reading an old family favorite, the heartwarming children’s tale The Railway Children by E. Nesbit. And it is the perfect read-aloud family story, because it is all about family! The main characters are three siblings (just like us . . .): Roberta (“Bobbie”), Peter, and Phyllis (“who meant extremely well”). When their father mysteriously disappears, and their mother must begin … Continue reading The Railway Children
February is Valentine’s Day month, and so a book with a little romance in it is an appropriate choice for this month’s Reading and Refreshments. We chose Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl, a heartwarming tale of a sweet, unspoiled country girl, Polly Milton, who comes to visit her friends in the city, bringing sunshine into their wealthy but dull lives. There was so … Continue reading An Old-Fashioned Girl
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