Dash is living and breathing Dog Man 24 hours a day this summer. One thing he and Lucy like about it is how some of the titles are references to "real" books, so we came…
Category: Read Alouds
This one goes to eleven
Fall of 2016, when we were immersed in the series, the kids asked a babysitter if she'd ever read Harry Potter. She told them she grew up on it, and then she said, "I was…
Oh, Snape…
We finished up the Harry Potter books, then watched the last two movies this weekend, and Oh! My! God! Why didn't anyone ever mention how good this is? We had to discover it for ourselves,…
The Gift of the Magi(cian)
When I started reading Harry Potter to the kids this summer I knew remarkably little about what was in store. (Kind of surprising since there is a lot of Harry Potter in the tap water.)…
18 years and still unspoiled
I've been hearing for a while that Harry Potter is pretty good. I've missed out on it for all these years, mostly because it hit at the wrong time for me. I was too old…