Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

This is just one of those "comfort" books that can be re-read countless times, I am on my fourth reading (second of this year).  Each time I read it, I experience a new insight into the Major, and his "greedy" son Roger.  Mrs. Ali is such a delight.

Thought for the Day

The Best Relationships are with people who enter your life by accident, but stay on purpose.

 

 

     

Quote of the Day-----Goodreads

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
June 15, 1752: With a kite, a key, and a cooperative bolt of lightning, American scientist and statesman Benjamin Franklin proved his theory that lightning is a form of electricity. The experiment took place 261 years ago today.



Read a good book.
 

Thought for the day

Thought for the day

The Most memorable people in Your Life will be the Ones Who Loved You when you weren't very Lovable.

That is certainly true of my best friend.

Read a good book!

Thought for the Day

Thought for the day   

If you are always being judged by someone, it does not define "who you are", It defines "Who They Are."

You are special.

Read a good book

Quote of the DAy-------Goodreads

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.
Maurice Sendak
June 10, 1928: Oh Maurice Sendak, we love you so! The prickly, big-hearted children's book writer was born 85 years ago today in Brooklyn, New York. The monsters in his classic, Where the Wild Things Are, were inspired by his immigrant family.





Some authors leave us much too soon, however, soon they leave us, their wonderful work stays with us forever.

Read a good Children's book, you won't be disappointed!

Set in modern day Portland, OR, there is an area known as "I.W." otherwise known as the "Impassable Wilderness", and as our journey begins, we know that no one that has ever ventured into the "I.W." has ever ventured out and told about it.

Prue McKeel is just an ordinary kid, or so she thinks at the onset, having taken her baby brother to a local park one day, she witnesses a "murder of crows" abduct him, and carry him off towards the forest of the "I.W.", naturally, she realizes that since he was in her custody, it is her responsibility to return him safe and sound to his family. So, Prue starts a journey to the "I.W.", with schoolmate Curtis, who has decided on his own to follow her. Once across the bridge, wild and weird events take hold of them, they become separated, and "fall" in with opposing factions. Both are united in finding Prue's baby brother, they just go about it in different ways. This is a place where animals and humans have "equal" footing. Finally, being reunited, they must come to terms with the evil force behind the abduction. Fowl play is afoot.

Remarkable pen and ink drawings, and lovely color illustrations throughout the book.
Husband and wife team live in Portland, OR, so the story holds forth with much truth about the area.


This is the first book in the series then you have

This is what I just finished.  Once again the pen and ink drawings and the color illustrations throughout the book are just delightful, and boy what a cliff hanger ending.......

Even if you are an adult, these books are well worth the time, children's authors are so much more thoughtful in bringing forth their characters.

Give them a shot.