![Middle Grade with Mom: The Lost Girl [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/the-lost-girl.jpg?fit=317%2C475&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
The Lost Girl by Anne Ursu When you’re an identical twin, your story always starts with someone else. For Iris, that means her story starts with Lark. Iris has always been the grounded, capable, and rational one; Lark has been inventive, dreamy, and brilliant—and from their first moments in the world together, they’ve never left each other’s side. Everyone around them realized early on what the two sisters already knew: […]
![Silver in the Wood [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/silver-in-the-wood.jpg?fit=297%2C475&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Old secrets […]
![The Origin of Netflix [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/that-will-never-work.jpg?fit=484%2C750&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph Netflix’s triumph feels inevitable, but the twenty first century’s most disruptive start up began with few believers and calamity at every turn. From having to pitch his own mother on being an early investor, to the motel conference room that served as a first office, to server crashes on launch day, to […]
![Lalani of the Distant Sea: A Filipino Fairy Tale [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/lalani-of-the-distant-sea.jpg?fit=428%2C648&ssl=1&resize=245%2C150)
Why we chose Erin Entrada Kelly’s Lalani of the Distant Sea We originally considered reading Jeff Vandermeer’s Dead Astronauts. In the time of COVID-19, though, we were not up to the task. Ash suggested Lalani of the Distant Sea after her book club read it. I’m always happy to read middle grade. I had this title in particular on my TBR because I was curious to see how Kelly writes […]
![Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Answering Kids’ Questions about Death [Family Reads]](https://i0.wp.com/fallingletters.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Family2Breads2Bsmall.png?resize=245%2C150&ssl=1)
Ash began our conversation with “I have nothing to say about this book”. I felt the same way. I responded with “It’s short, it’s boring, it’s underwhelming” but we immediately agreed ‘boring’ wasn’t the correct adjective. The content of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?…