Bookworm’s at it again!

On Halloween we missed the Trick or Treating.  sooo saaad

We made it to the mall after the candy bowls were emptied.  booo hooo

So we tricked the kids into treats from the bookstore.  It didn’t go over so well that night but now I think they see the value of Halloween treats they can’t eat!  Yay!

Fish got a pirate book with a model ship.  The book was moderately successful but the model was a hit.   We stayed up way to late putting it together and now it sits, dry docked, on the bookshelf in Fish’s room.

Keek got, “The GIant Book of Cool Stuff” by Glen Singleton.  At first she protested, “book in replacement of candy!?!”   Not that we had bags of pinata candy sitting at home, waiting to be eaten… but that was besides the point!  Trick or treating is a kids right!  Once the pouting had subsided she sunk her little vampire witchy teeth into this cool new book.

The cool stuff in this book is divided into the following catagories:  Magic, Facts, Science, Inventions, Pranks and lastly Jokes.  First she ate up the Jokes then skimmed the magic and science sections but the Pranks hold her giggling heart.  She spends, literally hours, giggling over the pranks she promises not to do.  Tricky temptations for a clever girl!

Well… he’s reading!

Fish has a new favorite book written by Joaquin Ramon Herrera and Horris, an indestructible monster friend.

The book has 92 pages in all.  Half are small type and the other half are great black and white illustrations. The illustrations remind me of creatures from Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends.

The book has a myriad of topics all equally disturbing.  Did you know Lobsters are oceanic bugs in the arachnid family?  Did you know that piranhas can attack a drinking cow and pull it under the water to eat it?  DId you know that humans used to burn each other up on bonfires?  Did you hear about the woman who bathed in blood because she thought it would keep her young and beautiful?  In addition to these scientific and historic accounts Herrera also included imaginary terrors:  What would it be like to run out of air, or freeze to death in outer space?

All in all it’s a pretty scary book delivered in a matter of fact and sometimes comical manner.    A gruesome six year old boy loves it dearly.  We buzzed through it yesterday afternoon.  Yes, the whole thing.  And he’s taken to carring it around with him today.  Hmmm… what else does Joaquin Ramon Herrera have to offer?