http://rifblog.org/2012/08/23/a-novel-idea/ Where Book People Unite around reading, books and kids Tue, 12 May 2015 13:57:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3 http://rifblog.org/2012/08/23/a-novel-idea/#comment-1116 Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:17:41 +0000 http://rifblog.org/?p=657#comment-1116 The Boxcar Children was the first read to me and was read by my grandmother Mid. At our house we read the spelling pig and then fairly soon after The Secret Garden which was a big, big hit with my daughter.

]]> http://rifblog.org/2012/08/23/a-novel-idea/#comment-1095 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:44:48 +0000 http://rifblog.org/?p=657#comment-1095 My husband and I read White Fang for her first novel. She is crazy about wolves.

]]> http://rifblog.org/2012/08/23/a-novel-idea/#comment-1088 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:15:25 +0000 http://rifblog.org/?p=657#comment-1088 I think my first novel that was read to me might have been “The Jungle Book.” But since you have girls, I would suggest Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “A Little Princess.”

]]> http://rifblog.org/2012/08/23/a-novel-idea/#comment-1086 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:38:47 +0000 http://rifblog.org/?p=657#comment-1086 The first story I remember my mother reading to me was Little House on the Prairie. Sadly, I never read a novel to my daughter – she learned to read, and never sat for me to read for her again. I love that you want to do this for your daughters.

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