In the fall I rescued my beloved copy of The Hobbit from my parents' house and read it (with help from Jeremy) to the boys. They loved it (it's an awesome out of print copy with colored animation from the 1979 movie). They also loved the movie (free on youtube in 8 parts) and the audio from the movie (on non-stop repeat in the car, so much so the headphones were brought back).
Sometime around Christmas, I started reading the first Harry Potter book to the boys. I'd been resistant to it, not because I don't love Harry, but because by the 7th book it does get fairly mature and a wee bit scary and it's hard to stop in the middle of the series. But on the other hand, I do want my kids to have some point of pop culture reference, I'm sure without the TV they are already pretty lost. So we read the first book, and then watched the movie together. And then we read the second book and watched the movie. At which point, Adam and I agreed it was time to take a break for a couple of years. But Alex wanted to go on. I gave him the choice of reading it himself or getting the audio CD's from the library. Alex decided he'd like the CD's, but I had to put a hold on them, and in the mean time he's read over 200 pages of The Prisoner of Azkaban. I'm really proud of him, besides Captain Underpants he usually doesn't want to read up past his bedtime. And I'm going conveniently forget to tell Alex if the CD's are ever available.
After Harry Potter, I tried to think of other books we could read and then watch the movie. Our next choice was The Tale of Despareux and I'm not sure any of us really liked it. It was dark, and not in a very good dark sort of way. Adam would like to still see the movie, but Alex was not so enthusiastic.
Our current project is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. We aren't quite done (poor Alsan is about to be compromised) but they are really into Naria and Adam was looking at the whole boxed set to see what the other books might be about. I've not seen the new Narnia movies so this will be a fun family adventure for all.
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That's impressive, that he's reading so well!!! Hey, MY 8-year-old is reading Bunnicula (thank you for that recommendation!) and I'm impressed with THAT! :)
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