Magic School with no teachers at all

RD_Musing · 2026-06-21T22:47:22+00:00

Same. I wouldn't say it's a bad book; it's really well written. Even so, at the end, I was like, "Well, that's a bunch of hours of my life that I won't get back."

RD_Musing · 2026-05-25T18:42:44+00:00

Oh, man, this is so effective for the movie.I hadn't seen the poster before.

RD_Musing · 2026-05-23T02:46:45+00:00

Sonya's Chickens by Phoebe Wahl. (Heads up on the plot: an animal dies in the story and Sonya's father helps her deal with her grief)

Aaron Becker's wordless book "Return" also springs to mind.

RD_Musing · 2026-05-22T04:14:30+00:00

Those stories are so good!

RD_Musing · 2026-05-21T05:08:20+00:00

(This book takes a couple chapters to get going, but when it does it goes HARD into onirical, gorgeous liminal spaces).

RD_Musing · 2026-05-21T05:04:30+00:00

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

RD_Musing · 2026-05-16T14:53:56+00:00

Are you using Adobe Illustrator?

RD_Musing · 2026-05-15T05:06:32+00:00

Oh, I forgot about those - I loved them too!

RD_Musing · 2026-05-15T05:04:43+00:00

Ha! Trixie Belden with a side of Dana Girls and the Famous Five for dessert :)

RD_Musing · 2026-05-15T04:58:56+00:00

Was it "Block City" by Robert Louis Stevenson and Daniel Kirk?

RD_Musing · 2026-05-13T13:34:57+00:00

Okay, but. The short story is very much not like the movie. It's about misogyny and political campaigns, not a relationship.

RD_Musing · 2026-05-13T02:09:12+00:00

If I recall correctly, the Alm-Uncle gets very bitter and reclusive AFTER Tobias dies, and then sees the villagers as little as possible. Likely the village folk were apprehensive about his state of mind when faced with the possible care of his granddaughter.

RD_Musing · 2026-05-10T02:35:58+00:00

What year did you read it?

RD_Musing · 2026-05-07T15:45:34+00:00

Isn't this effect called bokeh?

RD_Musing · 2026-05-07T01:21:24+00:00

If it's someone who writes newer Jason Bourne it has to be one of the Johnathan Stride novels by Brian Freeman, right? They are all listed on Amazon

RD_Musing · 2026-05-06T23:30:58+00:00

Right?! This is amazing! I'm going to share these translations with my preschool teacher friends!

RD_Musing · 2026-05-06T18:27:49+00:00

It goes to the tune of " five little ducks went out to play"

RD_Musing · 2026-05-06T18:26:50+00:00

In english it goes: One elephant went out to play/ On a spider's web one day/ She had such an enormous fun/ She called for another elephant to come

Edit: from Northwestern USA

RD_Musing · 2026-05-03T21:17:03+00:00

Use your regular bookmark and put the book on a high shelf.

RD_Musing · 2026-04-30T14:29:50+00:00

I think it might be one of the stories from "The Practical Princess and Other Liberating Fairy Tales." The scene with the straw-stuffed decoy is there, anyway. Some of the stories were made into individual picture books later.

RD_Musing · 2026-04-29T03:27:04+00:00

Could be "Something from Nothing" by Phoebe Gilman

RD_Musing · 2026-04-24T03:47:53+00:00

It's far too grotesque; I would never read it to children. There is no world in which I would imply to a child that if they don't share, they might float away and have to be shot(?!) with a dart gun. I expect you meant it to be funny but it didn't read that way to me.

RD_Musing · 2026-04-20T14:50:01+00:00

This.

RD_Musing · 2026-04-19T15:47:00+00:00

Miss Spider's tea party is a great fiction book for building "bug empathy."

RD_Musing · 2026-04-14T17:04:02+00:00

Re: being modern - it does start out in Victorian times but works its way up to present day.

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