All Reading Day!

Since I've mentioned some books my son has been enjoying to read I thought I should mention some books my daughter is enjoying. Yesterday my daughter requested an "All Reading Day" for school, she has asked for this before but we have never done it, so I let them. I was very impressed with how my son and daughter both did. My daughter loves to read so I knew she would do well. She gathered a stack of books together and read and read and read and read some more. My son found one of his favorite books he has read many times and read that for awhile then he started the new book "Conspiracy 365" that I previously mentioned and read and read and read it all day long. After reading a book or reading for a period of time the kids would narrate to me what they had read about. This day was a great success in my opinion and we will be doing it again sometime.

A funny thing about the books my kids picked is that all of them were Usborne/Kane Miller books. Yes, I am an Usborne Books consultant and we have a lot of these books but we also have lots and lots and lots of other books (just ask my husband) and books from libraries. Here are some of the books they read:

Knights Handbook, Conspiracy 365-January

Cleopatra, Hansel and Gretel, Florence Nightingale, Heidi

My daughter loves the Usborne Famous Lives series, actually my son loves this series also. The Famous Lives series has greatly impressed me as well. The books present famous people in a very interesting way, with lots of detail and the kids remember almost everything in the book and can repeat it to you. My kids also talk about these books to many people without being asked to, even long after they have read the books. The "Young Reading" series is also a big favorite of my daughter's.

My daughter is now asking for an "All Writing Day", she enjoys writing but my son does not like to write. Since my daughter knows her brother doesn't like to write, she came up with a possible solution, she said we'll take turns making up parts of stories and she'll write them all down. We'll see what the future brings.

(These books can be found at: http://www.usbornebookstore.com/)

Another Great Read, "Conspiracy 365"!

We have found another great read for my 13yr old son, the new book "Conspiracy 365 - January" by Gabrielle Lord. My son finished this book in 2 days, less than that actually. Joshua has never read this long in one sitting before although the "Kingdom" series was very close. There are going to be 12 books in this series, one for each month in 2010.

You can see the book here: http://www.usbornebookstore.com/.

You can even read the first 28 pages of the book at this link.

My son is anxious for the next book "February" in this series, I know we'll be getting them all!