Fall is upon us in full force, with the trees turning lovely colors (well, as much as they can in Kansas), and schoolwork piling on. Still, the girls manage to find time to squeeze in reading books for pleasure.

C decided that, in anticipation of the movie, she would reread this:

It’s her favorite of the series (“It’s like i, but better because you know what’s going to happen, and it’s not as scary!”) and she plowed through it in just a couple of days. And then she watched the final trailer:

and got even more excited: “They included that!! AWESOME!” Guess what we’ll be doing on November 22? (I think I probably should pick up tickets now, huh?)

A is up to her eyeballs in books. She’s reading The View From Saturday (which she is often confused by), Hoot (for our book group; she likes it and wishes she had more time to read it), and a Christmas book at school (for a book report; I don’t remember which one it is). But a couple days ago, C convinced A to read this one:

and A is hooked. Forget about everything else: THIS is the book she wants to devote her time to. She’s enthralled.

K has gone through the first two Great Brain books with Hubby, and enjoyed them quite a bit. But she decided she wanted a break from that and has gone back to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. In addition she and I are reading this:

There’s a lot of difficult words in there for a 7-year-old, but I help her through those, mostly. She does get what’s going on, and she remembers things that I forget. She loves the action, and thinks Rapunzel is pretty cool. In other words: she looks forward to reading with me every night. And a parent can’t ask for anything more than that!

I’ll be in Austin for KidlitCon next weekend (YAY!!). I hope to see a bunch of you there!