Book Review (kinda)...

Summertime is the only time of the year when I read to my kids like I did when they were younger.  We have time, and Niko says, "I love how you make the different voices of all the characters, Mommy.  It makes the story really interesting!"  Truthfully, I'd read to them all the time if they hadn't needed to learn for themselves.  

So, we climb up onto the big bed, make sure all the lights are on in the room (my eyes aren't what they used to be), find where we left off, and away we go into the land of imagination...

This time we chose the much touted, "Lightening Thief"  by Rick Riordan.  We've only gotten three chapters into the suspense of it all, but so far, we have cracked up at the humor, been frightened by the unknown, and (something I truly love) we have been challenged with new vocabulary words and the art of understanding many story lines all going at once.  This is the first in a whole series of books about Percy Jackson, a fictional 12 year old boy who is really the son of Zeuss, and the first movie is coming out in the first part of 2010.  It looks exciting!  If you enjoy mythology, good vs evil, and well written books based in a realistic world, you might give this one a go!