Dear Friends,
A certain boy around here is about to turn ten, and has asked for books (and a skateboard) for his birthday.
Well, certainly, my lad! We can make that happen!
We have chosen a small handful of books to buy, fresh and clean and new, for this birthday, and I thought I’d share the list with you in today’s Quick Book Notes. I’ve chosen a variety of books that I think will be of interest to this fellow who enjoys humor, adventure, and especially books about ordinary life gone a little bit comically awry.
My go-to’s for this kind of book are Astrid Lindgren books or Louis Sachar’s Wayside School series, but he has already read these. So I did a little poking around and was reminded of this gem from my own childhood, another of Louis Sachar’s books: