![]() ![]() I am thrilled with the arrival of number 7 in this one of my favorite fantasy series for 3rd grade and up. ![]() Septimus Heap, Book Seven: Fyre, Angie Sage, (HarperCollins/ Katherine Tegen) All genders of third graders will be fighting over it.īad Unicorn, Platte F. Clark, (S&S/Aladdin)įans of speculative fiction, fantasy adventure, classics like Narnia and modern stories of warlocks and witches will howl with laughter as they readers recognize old and new tropes of the genre. Let’s not be sexist about the appeal of this volume. This new title is a not-so-tongue-in-cheek memoir of Andy and Terry who live in a 13-story-treehouse, with all the fantasy rooms a kid could dream up a see-through-pool, a basement laboratory, a marshmallow shooting cannon, a shrink ray AND the ability to transform a cat into flying catnary (click on the cover to see treehouse in its full glory). It can mean the difference between a kid becoming a life-long non-reader or a fluent confident reader who knows there are books out there to be enjoyed. ![]() Got a third grader who isn’t in to reading yet? Give him Griffiths and Denton’s The Big Fat Cow That Goes Kapow! and The Cat on the Mat is Flat. My not-so-secret weapon is Andy Griffiths. Are you a little sick of the refrain, “Boys don’t read … boys stop reading … boys can read but don’t”? ![]()
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