Fergus Crane

Okay so this blogging lark is not so easy to keep up with, I missed a day!!

Lumpy was exhausted yesterday and was asleep by 7pm! He had Gymnastic camp in the morning for 3 hrs then we met his little friend and family for lunch and then played Putt Putt. The day was overcast and cool with the threat of tropical storm Alberto, so a perfect temp to let the kids enjoy the outside inside of the plan to see the new movie 'Cars'.

So very little reading done yesterday, hubby read him one of his new commando comics that a very good friend posted to him from the UK. He loves army stuff and the comics are only available over there, if you are interested see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commando_Comics

Today was better for reading as part of TS Alberto came over us and we had a windy and very wet afternoon after camp, so a perfect excuse to get cozy indoors. So I started to read Fergus Crane by Paul Stewart (shown above) to L, and he's hooked!! It is an adorable story so far and perfect for reading aloud. It's a small hardback, albeit thick with 214 pages, and wonderful black and white illustrations by Chris Riddell on a lot of the pages and a great map at the beginning. This is ideal for my 7 year old as he still loves to have pictures with his stories and this will wean him for the books later that will not include any.

Lumpy read a chapter of Magic Treehouse #2: Knights At Dawn out loud to me afterwards, but he wasn't keen to read any more than that, he wanted to do Maths from his new summer workbook we got yesterday.

I am half way through I, Coriander and still enjoying it. Hubby ran out of books to read so I suggested Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, which I so happened to have just bought on sale on Monday to add to Lumpy's 'library' . He was dubious to start with but he is now on page 80 after only a few nights and he seems pleasantly surprised. I am too, especially as his reading time has been severely limited by the football/soccer World Cup that started last weekend. It's keeping an old man awake.....that's a sign of a good book!!