To compliment the earlier Book Room post featuring Trapped by the Ice, written and illustrated by the talented Michael McCurdy, access the following links for a multi-sensory re-enactment of the perils that transpired when Sir Ernest Shackleton sailed the ship, ironically called the Endurance, across the frigid waters of the Antarctic. Kodak.com has compiled an incredible… Read more »
January 2012
In a Land of Ice and Snow
ICE FALL by Matthew Kirby (Scholastic Press, 2011) Adventure comes in all shapes and sizes. For Solveig, adventure arrives unexpectedly. Accompanied by her siblings, she’s been sent by her father, the king, to a steading in the cold Nordic North. While they wait, believing that their father will defeat the enemy and call them to… Read more »
Red Sled
A little bundle of a girl in a white coat and a red hat leans a red sled against a small cabin surrounded by snow, and a glorious, heartfelt journey begins. A brown bear spots it and takes it for a ride. He’s joined by a rabbit, and a porcupine, and a moose … using… Read more »
Welcome to ReaderKidZ, January 2012
Happy New Year! January 2012 at ReaderkidZ is all about FANTASY and ADVENTURE. ReaderKidZ is proud to present RICHARD PECK as Author-in-Residence this month. His latest novel, SECRETS AT SEA, is a fantastic adventure involving charming corseted matchmaking mice aboard a great ocean liner due to reach England in time for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee… Read more »
Richard’s Story
My first years of school were during World War II. In fact I marched into kindergarten the week Hitler marched into Poland. But I was better prepared than he. I’d had a mother who read to me, and so I couldn’t wait to get to first grade. I thought we’d be reading by the end… Read more »
Your Friend, Richard Peck
Dear Reader, Welcome to the journey and All Aboard my newest book. The title, SECRETS AT SEA, announces the story of a voyage. And those characters on the cover are Helena and her sisters Louise and Beatrice and their brother Lamont. All with beady eyes and long gray tails. Mice. And any story of mice,… Read more »
