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Post by adcooper on Jun 19, 2010 8:09:43 GMT -5
Just read this kids' book, Boom! (or 70,000 Light Years), by Mark Haddon. He wrote The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which I thought was excellent, so I brought this home when it came in to the library this week. Funny and suspenseful, ordinary kids confront space aliens disguised as teachers and survive. Confident readers 4th grade and up will get a big kick out of it. There are some Briticisms in it and so I wasn't always sure if some of the expressions were original to this book, or are standard smart-alec terms in British kidspeak. ("Don't be a big girl's blouse," for example, appears to mean "Don't be a big, dumb boob."  ) |
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Post by niaru on Jun 19, 2010 12:07:26 GMT -5
Briticisms...lol
I LOVED "The curious incident...". I'll have to get this one for my youngest daughter. She is currently re-reading ALL the Harry Potters...some for the 3rd time!
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Post by HokieThea on Jun 19, 2010 12:30:24 GMT -5
Sounds interesting! I'll have to show the title to Shelby.
Shelby is so into vampire books. But she is past the Twilight series, and into another. I told her I would buy the next book, only if she would read something I pick. So right now she is reading the original, un-Disney-fied Grimm's Fairy Tales. And she's really getting a kick out of them- some of the stories are pretty gruesome!
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Post by adcooper on Jun 19, 2010 14:41:55 GMT -5
HT, this is not at all like the romance and fantasy your daughter is loving! She may not go for it at all, but try it! It has space aleins and sci fi explosions (which would bore me, too, except I thought the characters were so funny, that by the second half of the book I'd have followed them anywhere). Those original fairy tales she's reading now can be very gruesome, especially the Russian tales.
Claire, wasn't Curious Incident a remarkable book? Original in a way so few books are.
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