reading through winter

this little baby is in love with Gossie books

I spent the winter reading children's & young adult fiction.  They're easy reads, of course, and I think it's good to keep up with current reads for the peeps so we're never at a loss when they are looking for something new to read (or be read to them).  And you can never read too many books.

Unless I hear about a specific author/title, I typically choose books based on their spine fonts.  Dustin makes fun of me quite a bit, but it's taken me to some great reads (also some losers - I found one last summer with sparkles on the cover and it was dismal but I was so enamored with the sparkles that I committed and trudged through it anyway).  I like to read everything by an author in quick succession.  Writer binges, you might say.  So I tried to stick with series since I prefer to read them over stand alones.  I think this is most of what I read.

• The Mysterious Benedict Society
• Sarah Dessen (whatever the library had, I think 12 - I missed a few)
• The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place
• The Penderwicks
• Nanny Piggins
• Percy Jackson
• Little House on the Prairie

It was really fun and winter seems like the perfect season for kid books.  Sweet Dustin has gotten sucked into reading a few of them as well and I will never forget him telling me over lunch one day "I'm a little sad that I don't have four daughters".  What!