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My readalike list for Rebecca Stead’s Newbery winning When You Reach Me was published in Booklist’s online newsletter Read Alert this morning!  If you like books and reading, I highly recommend subscribing to this free newsletter.  Any comments about the books on my list or When You Reach Me, comment below.
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I think I first read the Little House on the Prairie series in the summer time, but it is the winter scenes that really stick with me still.  Snow angels and sugaring snow, making pictures in the frost on the window, twisting hay and grinding wheat, Pa getting lost in a snow storm…Maybe because this [...]

When we were little, my sister and I got several magazines delivered to the house, Cricket, Ranger Rick, Penny Power, Muppet Magazine, Barbie Magazine to name just a few.  One was Highlights, which had stories and articles and crafts as well as regular features and puzzles.  One was a hidden picture puzzle:  A scene that [...]

The Anne books and all the short stories by L.M. Montgomery are all intertwined in my mind with the wonderful movies by Kevin Sullivan which I remember watching on PBS when they first came out.  After that, I had to read all the Anne books, followed by the Emily books, the Story Girl, several other [...]

It is funny what sticks with you.  This book is one that it seems like we always had.  I remember reading it over and over again, and scratching and smelling the little stickers for hot chocolate and candy canes and a Christmas tree and oranges and apple pie.

Bibliography: Scarry, Patricia M. (1970). The Sweet Smell [...]